654 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS! BOTANY. 



ANAGALLIS ALTERNIFOLIA DENSIFOLIA. 



Leaves and stem smaller and more crowded than in the species. More 

 succulent. Capsule larger. 



Magellan, Staaten Is. ; Falklands. 



Family 86. PLUMBAGINACE^;. Leadwort Family. 



Herbs, with regular 5-merous, sympetalous or choripetalous flowers; 

 stamens equal and opposite to the lobes of the corolla ; ovary superior, 

 i -celled, 5~3-styled. Fruit with one pendulous seed on a long funicle 

 arising from the base. Seed endospermous. 



The priorities compel us, following Britton & Brown, to include under 

 the genus Statice forms with unbranched scapes, hairy styles and narrow 

 leaves, reducing Armeria to its original status as a specific name ; and 

 Limonium as a genus will include the forms with branched scape, smooth 

 styles, and broad leaves. 



i. STATICE Linn., 1753. (Armeria W., 1809, in Gray's Manual, in 

 Benth. & Hook, and in Eng. & Prantl.) Seapink, Thrift. 



Tufted, fleshy herbs, with slender, mostly naked, simple scapes, with 

 narrow, basal, rosulate leaves, and dense, terminal heads of small, subses- 

 sile flowers, having scarious bracts and bractlets ; the lower bracts form- 

 ing an involucre, 2 of them reflexed and partly united. Calyx funnelform, 

 lo-ribbed, 5-toothed. Petals 5, separate or connate. Stamens on the 

 base of the petals. Styles filiform, hairy, united below. Utricle 5-pointed. 



Species 20, Europe, and around the Mediterr. and N. and S. Amer. 



i. S. ARMERIA Linn. (Armeria vulgaris^N., A. andina Poepp.) 



Glabrous. The root sending up few, very turgid, leafy-sheathed rosules ; 

 leaves fleshy, linear, as broad as the scape, or broader, plane, obtuse, 

 i -nerved. Scapes tall, thick. Involucral leaves broad, black, the lowest 

 triangular-lanceolate, acute often equalling the inner, which are obtuse 

 and broadly margined. 



(Calif, and higher Chilian Andes) ; Magellan., Port Famine ; S. Patagon. 

 by J. B. Hatcher at Rio Sta. Cruz, Dec. 30, 1896 (the involucral leaves 

 light brown) ; by O. A. Peterson at Rio Coy, Dec. 13. 



