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2-3, basal leaves form a false rosette, and are egg-- 

 shaped to lance-shaped, elliptic, blunt, nearly 

 entire, the inner lance-shaped, toothed. The 3-5 

 stem-leaves are nearly stalkless, acute, like the 

 basal, sharply toothed, all narrowed below, bluish- 

 green below, stiffly hairy on the midrib and 

 margin. The panicle forms a kind of corymb, 

 branched, with 1-2 lower ascending branches, 

 with few flowers. The stalks bear bracteoles, 

 and are stiffly hairy, woolly-felted, glandular. 

 The few heads are rounded to egg-shaped. The 

 phyllaries are dark green, linear, narrow, lance- 

 shaped, blunt, the inner rather acute, with a pale 

 border, woolly-felted, hairy and glandular. The 

 ligules are fringed with hairs. The styles are 

 yellow turning brown. The plant is \-2\ ft. high, 

 flowering in June, and is a herbaceous perennial. 



ORDER PLUMBAGINACE^E 



Jersey Thrift (Statice (Armeria) plantaginea, 

 All.). The habitat of this plant is dry sandy 

 places, sandy banks. The plant has the rosette 

 habit. The plant is hairless and is more rigid, 

 stouter, and larger than Statice (Armeria) -vul- 

 gar is. The leaves are linear-lance-shaped, nar- 

 rowed into long points, the margins cartilaginous 

 or membranous, wavy when dry, 3-5 veined. The 

 scapes are rough, taller. The involucre is longer, 

 less deeply cut, the outer bracts with a long, herba- 

 ceous point, triangular or lance-shaped, abrupt, 

 or inversely egg-shaped, with a broad, membran- 

 ous margin, blunt. The calyx-teeth are long, 

 bristle-like, awned. The flowers are darker, on 

 shorter stalks. The plant is 4-20 in. high, flower- 

 ing between June and August, and is a herbaceous 

 perennial. 



Remote - flowered Sea Lavender (Limonium 

 (Statice) humilc, Mill. = S. rarijiora, Bab. non 

 Drej. = S. Bahusiensis, Fr.). The habitat of this 

 plant is muddy salt-marshes. The plant has the 

 rosette habit. The stem is somewhat angular, 

 branched below, not forming a corymb above, 

 panicled. The leaves are oblong to lance-shaped, 

 stalked, blunt- pointed, i -ribbed, faintly -veined. 

 The flowers are distant, purplish, in long spikes, 

 erect or bent inwards. The spikelets are loose, 

 or 1-3 flowered, arranged one side of the stalk, 

 not overlapping. The calyx-segments are acute, 

 finely-toothed. The outer bract is keeled on the 

 back, pointed, the inner i-i^ as long as the inter- 

 mediate. The plant is 4-12 in. high, flowering in 

 July and August, and is a herbaceous perennial. 



Limonium (Statice) recuruum, C. E. Salmon = 

 5. Dodartii, Bab. Man., Ed. 5-8). The habitat of 

 this plant is rocky shores. The plant has the 

 rosette habit. The stem is rigid, with thick 

 branches, not barren, short, and often simple, 

 usually not branched below. The leaves are in- 

 versely egg-shaped to spoon-shaped, not pinnately 

 veined (as they are in the next), narrowed into a 

 broadly-winged stalk, 3-veined below. The flowers 

 are purple, in nearly-erect, linear, thick spikes, 

 the panicle branches short, often in pairs, spread- 

 ing. The spikelets are 2-4-flowered, stout, 



crowded, spreading, overlapping, in 2 rows. The 

 calyx-segments are without intermediate teeth, 

 blunt, and entire. The inner bracts are inversely 

 egg-shaped, very blunt, with white, or pinkish, 

 margins. The anthers are linear. The plant is 

 in flower in July and August, and is a herbaceous 

 perennial. 



Upright Sea Lavender (Limonium (Statice) 

 binervosum, C. E. Salmon = 5. auriculafolia, 

 Hook, non Vahl. = S. occidentals, Lloyd = 5. 

 spathuiata, Hook, non Desf.). The habitat of this 

 plant is rocky shores. The plant has the rosette 

 habit. The plant is hairless. The rootstock is 

 short, stout, branched. The stem is branched from 

 near the middle, the branches repeatedly forked, 

 long, sometimes rough. The leaves are lance- 

 shaped to spoon-shaped, acute, narrowed to a 

 short stalk below, blunt, 3-nerved below. The 

 branches of the panicle are all flowering, ascend- 

 ing, the few lower often flowerless, the scapes 

 slender, wavy, forked. The spikelets are 2-4- 

 flowered, slender, overlapping, in 2 rows, erect 

 or ascending, and the spikes are linear, nearly 

 erect. The calyx-segments are blunt, entire, 

 without intermediate teeth. The inner bracts are 

 oval, with a broad, membranous edge, pink. The 

 anthers are oval. The plant is 4-12 in. high, 

 flowering in July and August, and is a herbaceous 

 perennial. 



Limonium (Statice) bellidifolium, D. C. non 

 Dum. = 5. retictilatum, Huds. = S. caspia, Willd. 

 The habitat is salt-marshes, and muddy sea- 

 shores. The plant has the rosette habit. It is 

 hairless, rough to granular, especially above. 

 The scape is stout or slender, much branched 

 near the base, erect, or prostrate when it forms a 

 circle. The leaves are not persistent, 1-3 veined, 

 small, inversely egg-shaped, lance-shaped, acute, 

 or blunt-pointed. The leaf-stalk is as long as 

 the blade. The branches are erect, spreading, 

 branched, bent back, the lower barren, much 

 divided, simple, and all flowering. The branch- 

 lets are much divided. The scales are triangular 

 to acute, the larger with long, narrow points, 

 the lower leafy occasionally. The spikes are 

 scorpioid, short, dense, or longer and loose. The 

 spikelets are 2-3-flowered, in 2 rows, densely 

 overlapping, close or distant. The outer bract 

 is egg-shaped, blunt, membranous, faintly-veined 

 below. The middle bract is irregularly oblong to 

 inversely egg-shaped, divided or blunt, rounded, 

 membranous, veined. The inner bract is long, 

 egg-shaped, membranous, more than half as long 

 as the outer bract. The bracteoles are oblong to 

 inversely egg-shaped, membranous, rounded or 

 blunt. The calyx is irregularly hairy below, 

 sometimes hairless, the lobes triangular to acute, 

 rounded, the veins not running beyond the base 

 of the lobes, or rarely so far, white, finely toothed, 

 with no intermediate teeth. The corolla is small, 

 pale lilac. The plant is 1^-16 in. high, flowering 

 in July and August, and is a herbaceous perennial. 



Limonium (Statice) lychnidifolium, Cir. =var. b, 

 corymbosum, Boiss. The habitat of this plant is 

 maritime rocks. The plant has the rosette habit. 



