PENTAINDRIA PENTAGYNIA. j^. 



The flalk is about a foot high, angular, and often 

 a little twifted, bearing a fingle white flower at 

 top: the leaves are heart-fhap'd, thofe on the 

 llalk feffile : the flower is white, with Ave fl:ri- 

 ated petals : the neclaria are of a yellowiih o-reeii 

 color, heart-fliap'd and ciliated : the cilia ter- 

 ininated each with little yellow pellucid fpheres ; 

 a very diilinguiiliing character of this plant. 



PENTAGYNIA. 



STATICE. Ge?7. pi. 388. 

 Cal. i-phyllus, integer, plicatus, fcariofus. Vetala 



5. Sem. 1, fuperum. 

 STATICE fcapo fimplici capitato, foliis linearibus. 



Sp.pl. 394. {Moris, hijl. f. i^, t. i. f. 29. Ger. 



Em. 602./. I. Pet. herb. t. 72./. 8.) 

 Thrift or Sea Gilly-flower. Anglis. Bar-dear?. 



Gaul'is. 

 The moll; humble and mofl: lofty of plants. It 



grows frequently upon the fea-lhores, and upon 



the fummits of the highefl: mountains. '4. ^l\, 



LINUM. Gen. pi. 389. 



Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Capfida 5-valvis, lo-lo- 

 cularis. Sem. folitaria. 



* Foliis nlternis. 

 LINUM calycibus capfulifq ; mucronatis, petalis 

 crenatis, foliis lanceolatis alternis, caule fubfoli- 

 tano. Sp. pL 397. (Ger. Em. c,^6. Moris, hift.f, 

 5. /. 26./. T. fj dextram crdinisfscnndi.) 



Flay. 



