272 LEADWORT FAMILY. 



1. Low hardy herbs, with leaves all from the root, and flowers on scapes, having a 

 funnel-shaped scarious calyx, nearly or quite separate petals tapering at base, 

 and 5 almost or quite separate styles. 



1. ARMERIA. Tufted plants with evergreen, very narrow and entire leases, simple 



scapes bearing a head of rose-colored flowers, and styles plumose-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 calyx 

 and corolla, and one style bearing 5 stigmas. 



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



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



4. CEEATOSTIGMA. Calyx strongly 5-toothed, 10-ribbed at the base, glandless. Stamens 



adnate to the corolla tube at its middle. 



1. ARMERIA, THRIFT. (Old name.) Flowers summer. 11 



A. e/ongata, Hoffm. (or A. VULGARIS ; also called A. MARfxiMA). 

 COMMON THRIFT. Wild on shores of Eu. and Arctic America, cult, in 

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

 3'-6' high. 



2. STATICS. (Ancient Greek : meaning astringent, the roots used as 

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

 in choice gardens, but not commonly. 2Z 



S. Limdnium, Linn. SEA LAVENDER 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 flowers. 



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 1^' long; calyx 

 tube glandular-hispid. S. Africa. 



* * Flowers red. 



P. coccfnea, 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 : horn, stigma.} 1J. 



C. plumbaginoldes, Bunge (or PLUMBAGO LARPENT.E). Stem slen- 

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

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

 not yet common. China. 



