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 

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

 styles, and broad leaves. 



i. STATICE Linn., 1753. (ArmeriaW., 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 W., 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. Invohicral 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. 



