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CENTUNCUIaUS. CHAFFWEED. 



C. minimus (small (7., or bastard Pimpernel.) In moist 

 sandy or gravelly places. A very diminutive plant, from 1 to 2 

 inches high ; stem slightly branched at the base ; leaves small, 

 ovate. Flowers solitary, sessile, very small, pale pink ; corolla 4- 

 cleft. Petit Tor, near Marychurch. Bovey Heath. (E. B. t.531.) 

 A. vi. vii. 



SAMOLUS. BROOKWEED. 



S. Valerandi (Broolcweed^ or water Pimpernel.)-^-In marshy 

 and watery places. Plant from 6 to 10 niches high ; leaves al- 

 ternate, roundish-oval, on short stalks ; flowers in terminal clus- 

 ters, small and white ; corolla with 5 spreading segments. Petit 

 Tor, by a little s*treamlet near the beach. Formerly at Meadfoot. 

 (E. B. t. 703.) P. vn. vm. 



OED. LXVII. PLUMB AGIN ACE JE. 



ARMERIA. THEIFT, SEA-PINK. 



A. maritima (common T., or S., or Sea- Gilliflower.) On 

 muddy or rocky seashores. Root-stock throwing up a dense 

 tuft of narrow-linear leaves. Heads of flowers on long leafless 

 stalks ; flowers closely crowded together, pink, sometimes white. 

 Shores of Torbay, Meadfoot, etc. Statice Armeria. (E. B. t. 

 226.) P. iv.-ix. 



STATICE. SEA-LAYENDER. 



1. S. Iiimoniuxn (spreading -spiked Sea- Lavender.) In salt- 

 marshes and on rocks by the sea. Leaves all radical, from 2 to 6 

 inches long, ovate-lanceolate, narrowing at the base into a stalk. 

 Flower- stalk, upright, leafless, repeatedly divided at the top, and 

 forming a thick panicle of bluish-purple flowers. Exminster 

 marshes. (E. B. t. 102.) B. vn.-ix. 



2. S. binervosa (upright-spiked S.) On rocks near the sea. 

 Leaves much smaller than the last, and narrowed into a winged 

 stalk at the base ; flower : stalk branched from below the middle ; 

 spikes compact and erect ; flowers large, of a purplish blue. Cliffs 



