PLUMBAGINACEAE. 



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lous; styles 5. Fruit a utricle or achene, enclosed by the calyx, rarely a 

 dehiscent capsule. Seed solitary; testa membranous; endosperm mealy, 

 or none; embryo straight; cotyledons entire. About 10 genera and 350 

 species, of wide distribution, mostly in saline situations. 



1. LIMONIUM Adans. 

 Herbs, mostly perennial, and with flat basal leaves, and numerous small 

 flowers cymose-paniculate on bracted scapes, in 1-3-flowered bracteolate clus- 

 ters, forming one-sided spikes. Calyx campanulate or tubular, the limb 

 scarious, 5-toothed, the tube usually 10-ribbed. Petals 5, clawed. Stamens 

 adnate to the bases of the petals. Styles 5, separate in our species, stigmatic 

 along the inner side. Fruit a utricle. [Ancient name of the wild beet.] 

 About 120 species, widely distributed. Type species: Statice Limonium L. 



1. Limonium carolinianum (Walt.) Brit- 

 ton. Sea Lavender. Marsh Rosemary. 

 Canker-root. (Fig. 305.) Glabrous, fleshy ; 

 rootstock thick, fusiform or branched; 

 scape terete, striate, paniculately branched 

 above, l°-2h° high. Leaves oblanceolate, 

 narrowed into margined petioles, entire, or 

 slightly undulate, 3'-10' long, shorter than 

 the scapes, the midvein prominent, the lat- 

 eral veins very obscure; .flowers erect, about 

 2" high; calyx 5-toothed, sometimes with as 

 many minute intermediate teeth in the 

 sinuses; corolla pale purple; petals spatu- 

 late; styles filiform. [Statice caroliniana 

 Walt.; Statice Lefroyi Hemsl. ; Limonium 

 Lefroyi Britton.] 



Salt marshes and borders of - mangrove 

 swamps at several points on the shores of 

 Castle Harbor. Native. Atlantic coast of North 

 America. Flowers in late summer and autumn. 

 The plant probably reached Bermuda by float- 

 ing. 



Limonium australe (Spreng.) Kuntze, Yellow Chinese Limonium, of 

 China, resembling the preceding species, but with yellow flowers in dense short 

 panicled, 1-sided spikes, was grown in flower-gardens at the Agricultural 

 Station in 1913. [Statice australe Spreng.; S. Fortuni Lindl.] 



Plumbago capensis Thunb., Blue Plumbago, of South Africa, extensively 

 grown for ornament, is a leafy slender half-climbing shrub, 3°-5° high with 

 oblong to spatulate entire leaves l'-3' long, and large blue flowers in terminal 

 puberulent spikes, the narrowly cylindric, glandular calyx-tube about -J' long, 

 the slender, glabrous corolla-tube about IV long, the limb about 1' broad, with 

 5 obovate lobes. The plant is very luxuriant in Bermuda. 



Plumbago rdsea L., Red or Scarlet Plumbago, Asiatic, similar to the 

 preceding species, but glabrous, leaves ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, and scarlet 

 flowers in elongated spikes, the slender corolla-tube 1' long or less, is occa- 

 sionally grown for ornament. [P. coccinea Boiss.] 



Family 3. MYRSINACEAE Lindl. 



Myrsine Family. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves mostly alternate, leathery, entire, punctate; 

 stipules none. Inflorescence racemose, corymbose, or cymose. Flowers 



