WILD FLOWERS OF NEW YORK 215 



In moist woodlands and thickets, Labrador to Manitoba, south to 

 Virginia, Illinois and Michigan. Flowering in May and June. 



On Mount Mclntyre, and on other high mountains of the Adirondacks, 

 occurs a form with leaves elliptical- ovate to ovate-lanceolate in shape, 

 rather thick in texture and only i to 2 inches long. In Bergen swamp, 

 Genesee county, occurs a form with linear-lanceolate leaves, i to 3 

 inches long. 



Plumbago Family 



Plumbaginaceae 

 Seaside Lavender; Marsh Rosemary; Canker-root 



Limonium carolinianum (Walter) Britton 



Plate i66b 



A rather fleshy, smooth plant of salt meadows near the coast, with 

 a thick tapering or branched, astringent root. Flower-bearing scapes 

 slender, much branched above, 6 to 18 inches high. Leaves all at the 

 base of the plant, oblanceolate in shape, blunt at the apex, narrowed below 

 into margined petioles, the margins of the leaf blades entire or slightly 

 undulate, 2 to 10 inches long, one-half to i^ inches wide. Flowers pale 

 purple, erect, in many one-sided clusters forming a large, paniculate, 

 terminal inflorescence, each flower about one-sixth of an inch high; calyx 

 five-toothed, the calyx tube with ten faint ribs below and closely subtended 

 by the small bracts; petals five, spa*tulate in shape. 



On salt meadows, Labrador to Florida and Texas. Also in Bermuda. 

 Flowering from July to October. 



Gentian Family 



Gentianaceae 

 Sea or Marsh Pink 



Sabbatia stellaris Pursh 



Plate l66a 



A small, herbaceous plant with stems slightly four-angled below, 

 5 to 20 inches high and with numerous alternate branches toward the 



