Statice.] PENTANDRIA — PENTAGYNIA. 129 



93. Staphylea. Linn. Bladder-nut. 

 1. S.*pmndta, L. (com?no?i Bladder-nut); leaves pinnated, 

 petioles without glands, styles 2, capsules bladdered. E. Bot. 

 t. 831. 



Thickets and hedges in Yorkshire ; Mr Hailstone. About Ashford, 

 Kent. It is frequent in gardens. Fl. June. Tj . 



94. Tamarix. Linn. Tamarisk. 

 I. T.*Gdllica, L. (French Tamarish) ; leaves minute am- 

 plexicaul appressed acute, spikes lateral somewhat panicled 

 slender much longer than broad. E. Bot. t. 1318. 



Rocks, cliffs, and sand\' shores by the sea, about the Lizard and St 

 Michael's, Cornwall ; Hurst Castle and Hastings. Near Landguard Fort; 

 but evidently planted. Fl. July. T2 . 



95. CoRRlGiOLA. Linn. Strapwort. 



1. C. liltordlis, L. (sand Strapwort) ; stem leafy among the 

 flowers. E. Bot. t. 6(38. 



Rare ; on the south-western coast of England. On Slapham sands and 

 near the Star-point, Devon ; and at Helston, Cornwall. Fl. July, Aug. 

 O. — »Ste»«s numerous from the topof the root, spreading, slender. Leaves 

 linear, obtuse, somewhat fleshy and very glaucous. Stipules small, mem- 

 branaceous, white. Flowers small, in little branching clusters, from the 

 axils of the upper leaves. 



PENTANDRIA— TETRAGYNIA. 



96. Parnassia. Li?in. Grass of Parnassus. 

 1. P. palustris, L. (common Grass of Parnassus) ; bristles of 

 the nectary 9 — 13, leaves cordate cauline one amplexicaul. E. 

 Bot. t. 82. 



Bogs and wet places ; frequent in the north. Fl. Aug. — Oct. 1/. — 

 Leaves mostly radical, on long footstalks, cordate, entire, nerved ; one 

 on the stem below the middle, sessile. Stem angular, from 1 inch (as 

 I have seen it in N. Ronaldsha, Orkney, with perfect flowers) to 8 — 10 

 inches high. Flowers solitary, terminal, large, yellowish-white, hand- 

 some. Petals broadly obovate. Nectaries, each an obcordate scale, 

 opposite the petals, fringed with white hairs along the margin which are 

 terminated by a yellow pellucid globular gland. 



PENTANDRIA— PENTAGYNIA. 



97. Statice, Linn. Thrift. 

 * Flowers collected into a rounded head. (Armeria, De Ca?id.) 



1. S. Armeria, L. {common Thrift, or Sea-Gillijiower) ; leaves 

 linear, scape simple bearing a rounded head, awns of the calyx 

 short. E. Bot. t. 226. 



Muddy sea-shores, among rocks by the sea-side and upon the tops of 

 our highest mountains. Fl. July, Aug. 1^ . — Leaves all radical, nume- 

 rous. Heads otjlowers rose-coloured, (white in Cornwall, G. E. Smith), 

 intermixed with scales, and having, besides, a brown, membranous, 3- 

 leaved involucre, terminating below in a sheathing, jagged covering to 

 the npper part of the scape. 



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