•Jili LEADWORT FAMILY. 



§ 1. Loiohardi/ herbs, loith leaves all from the root, and flowers on scapes, haring a 

 funnel-shaped scarions calyx, nearly or quite separate petals taperinr/ at base, 

 and .") almost or quite separate styles. 



1. AUMEKIA. Tufted j)laiits with evergreen, very iiiirrciw and entire leaves, simple 



scapes bearing a head of rose-colored flowers, and styles plunuise-hairy towards the 

 base. 



2. STATICE. Broadish-leaved herbs, with scapes branching into a panicle, bearing 3- 



bracted flowers or clusters ; styles smooth. 

 § 2. Plants of warm regions, with branching, mostly woody stems, bearing alternate, 

 entire leaves, and bracted spikes of handsome flowers, having a tubular calij.v 

 and corolla, and one style bearing h stigmas. 



3. PLUMBAGO. Calyx 5-toothed at the ape.K, glandular along the 5 ribs or angles. 



Corolla salver-forra, with long tube. Stamens free from the corolla. 



4. CERATOSTIGMA. Calyx strongly o-toothed, lO-ribbed at the base, glandless. Stamens 



adnate to the corolla tube at its middle. 



1. ARMERI A, THRIFT. (Old name.) Flowers summer. H 



A. e/ongata, Hoffiii. (or A. v(lg.\uis ; also called A. M.\nfTiM.\). 

 Common Thrift. Wild on shore.s of Eu. and Arctic America, cult, in 

 gardens for edgings, etc., with short, spreading, grass-like leaves and scape 

 3'-6' high. 



2. STATICE. (Ancient Greek : meaning astritujcnt, the roots used as 

 such ill popular medicine.) A few species of the Old World are cult, 

 in choice gardens, but not commonly. % 



S. Limdnium, Linn. Si;.\ Lavi;xder or Marsh Rosemary. Along 

 the coast in salt marshes in several varieties, with oblong or spatulate 

 thick and pale leaves on slender petioles, scapes l°-2° high, bearing 

 lavender-colored flowers all summer. 



S. sinuata, Linn. Cult, from .S. Eu.; leaves runcinate or sinuate-lobed 

 and hairy ; scape dichotomously branched, strongly winged, as are also 

 the peduncles of the clusters of handsome lilac flowens. 



3. PLUMBAGO, LEADWORT (which the Latin name denotes.) 

 The following are cult, in conservatories, or turned out to flower all 

 summer. ^ Flowers blue or violet. 



P. Capensis, Thunb. Stems somewhat climbing, angled ; leaves oblong- 

 spatulate, entire; corolla large, pale or lead-blue, the tube IV long; calyx 

 tube glandular-hispid. S. Africa. 



* * Flowers red. 



P. coccinea, DC. Herbaceous ; leaves large, oblong, the showy flowers 

 in terminal or axillary .spikes. E. Indies. 



* * * Flowers white. 



P. Zeyldnica, Linn. Stem somewhat climbing, angled ; leaves ovate 

 or oblong ; flowers in long spikes, the calyx tube glabrous or minutely 

 glandular. E. Indies. 



4. CERATOSTIGMA. (Greek : /iorH, .v</V/)/i«.) H 



C. plumbagino)des, Bunge (or Pli-.muago L.\iu'kst.e). Stem slen- 

 der and zigzag, somewhat hairy and scaly ; leaves Arm, obovate, finely 

 serrate ; flowers violet, in close terminal clusters. Houses and borders, 

 not yet common. China. 



