270 62. PLUMBAGINACE.E. 



Order LXII. PLUMB AGIN ACE^E. 



Cal. 5-cleft, persistent, inferior, plicate. Cor. regular, 5-fid 

 or nearly 5-petalous. Stam. 5, hypogynous, or adnate to the 

 base of the pet. Ovary free, of 5 carpels, 1 -celled, 1 -seeded; 

 ovule 1, pendulous by a stalk arising from the bottom of the cell. 

 Styles 5. Fr. a utricle. Seed inverted. Embryo in the axis of 

 farinaceous albumen. Radicle superior. 



1. STATICE. Fl. spiked. Cal. scarious above. Cor. 5-parted. 

 Caps, not bursting. G. F. G. Gam. i. 4. 



2. ARMERIA. Fl. in a head with an inverted cylindrical 

 sheath. Caps, not bursting. G. F. G. Gam. i. 3'. 



1. STATICE Linn. Sea-Lavender. 



1. S. Limonium (L.); 1. elliptic-oblong stalked mucronate 

 1 -ribbed strongly veined, scape subterete branched above corym- 

 bose, spikelets 1 3-flowered ascending forming dense 2-ranked 

 patent or recurved spikes, cal. -segments entire acute with inter- 

 mediate teeth, outer bract pointed rounded on the back. E. B. 

 102. R. xvii. 1111. Scape usually not branched in its lower 

 half, often not until near the corymbose top. Spikes short ; 

 spikelets densely imbricate. Muddy salt marshes. P. VII. 



2. S. Bahusiensis (Fries) ; 1. oblong-lanceolate stalked mucro- 

 nate 1 -ribbed faintly veined, scape slightly angular usually 

 branched from below the middle panicled, spikelets 1 3-flowered 

 unilateral rather distant forming lax erect or incurved spikes, cal.- 

 segments acute denticulate with intermediate teeth, outer bract 

 pointed keeled on the back. R. xvii. 1111. S. rariflora Drej., 

 E. B. S. 2917- Scape not corymbose, much branched below. 

 Spikes long ; spikelets often 1 -flowered, not imbricate. Salt 

 marshes. P. VII. VIII. 



3. S. Dodartii (Gir.); 1. obovate-spathulate narrowed into a 

 broadly winged stalk 3-ribbed below, scapes rigid alternately 

 branched, no sterile branches, spikelets 2 4-flowered densely 

 imbricate 2-ranked forming linear thick suberect spikes, cal.- 

 segments blunt entire without intermediate teeth. Scape usually 

 not branched in its lower half; branches often simple, short. 

 Bracts with white margins or slightly pink. Anth. oblong. 

 -Rocky shores. P. VII. VIII. E.I. 



4. S. occidentalis (Lloyd) ; 1. lanceolate-spathulate rather acute 

 narrowed into a long winged stalk obscurely 3-ribbed below, 

 scapes slender wavy dichotomously branched from near the base, 

 few lowest branches sterile, spikelets 2 4-flowered imbricate 2- 



