508 ORDER 80. PLUMBAGINACEJB. 



TRIBES AND GENERA. 



I. STATICE J3. Styles distinct, at least above. Utricle not valvate. (a) 



a Stigmas capitate. Style connated at base. Lvs. acerous. Scape terete... Ac ANTHOLOMON. 5 



a Stigmas capitate. Styles distinct at base. Leaves flat. Scape 8-angled ____ GONIOLOMON. 4 



a Stigmas filiform. Styles glabrous. Scape branching ........................... STATICE. 1 



Styles plumous. Scape capitate ............................ ARMEBIA. 2 



II. PLUMB AGE J2. Styles united to the apex. Pericarp subvalvate. (b) 



b Corolla hypocrateriform. Calyx not enlarged in fruit ...................... PLUMBAGO. 3 



1. STAT'ICE, L. MARSH ROSEMARY. , (Gr. arari^a), to stop ; be- 

 cause used medicinally it stops diarrhoea, says Pliny.) Calyx funnel- 

 form, limb scarious, 5-nerved, 5-parted ; petals scarcely united at base ; 

 filaments 5, adnate to the very base of the corolla ; ovary crowned with 

 the 5 glabrous, filiform styles, utricle regularly or irregularly circura- 

 scissile. 11 Herbs with the scape branching the flowers 3-bracted, ses- 

 sile on the 3-bracted branchlet. 



S. Limdnum L. Very smooth; Ivs. oblong-elliptical or oblanccolate, acute, 

 tipped with a bristle, tapering to a long petiole ; scapes terete, fistulous, bracted, 

 paniculate ; spikelets 1-flowered (rarely 2), involucrate with 3 bractlets, remotely 

 secund on the branchlets ; cal. lobes very acute. Salt marshes along the coast, 

 from Newfoundland to S. Car. Scape 6 to 12' high. Lvs. 1' to 18" long, the 

 petioles rather longer. The root is large, ligneous, strongly astringent, much 

 valued in medicine. Jl. Oct. (S. Carolinianum Walt.) Differs from the Eu- 

 ropean varieties which have mostly 2 to 3-flowered spikelets, more close on the 

 branchlets, caL lobes scarcely acute, &c. 



2. ARME'RIA, Willd. THRIFT. Flowers collected in a dense head ; 

 involucre 3 to many-leaved ; calyx tubular-campauulate, 5-angled, with 

 6 shallow lobes, scarious and plaited ; petals, stamens, <fec., as in Statice. 



H- Lvs. radical, mostly linear. Scape simple, appendaged above. 



A. vulgaris Willd. Scape terete, smooth ; Ivs. linear, flat, obtuse ; outer bracts 

 of the invol. ovate-acute, shorter than the sheathing appendage at their base. A 

 neat and elegant plant, native near the sea-coast, Brit. Am. (Hook.) Often 

 cultivated. Lvs. 3 to 4' by 2 to 3", numerous, crowded. Scape about If high, 

 bearing a singular sheath at top, formed according to Lindley by the adherent 

 bases of involucral Ivs. Fls. rose-colored. Jn. Aug. 



2 A. latifoiia Willd, Scape solitary, tall ; Ivs. very broad, oblong, 5 to 7- 

 veined ; fls. (rose-reti) in a large head from a long sheath ; bracts scarious, the 

 outer oblong-lanceolate, acuminate-cuspidate. \ Portugal. 



3. PLUMBA^GO, Tourn. LEADWORT. (Lat. plumbum (lead), a dis- 

 ease of the eyes, which it was reputed to cure. Pliny.) Calyx herba- 

 ceous, glandular, 5-lobed, not enlarged after flowering ; corolla salver- 

 form, tube longer than calyx, limb twisted in aestivation ; anthers 5, 

 linear ; style 1, stigmas 5, filiform ; utricle membranous, mucronate with 

 the persistent style. Herbs or shrubs. Fls. cyanic, numerous through 

 the season. 



1 P. Capensis Thunb. St. shrubby, scarcely climbing ; Ivs. oblong entire, 

 glaucous-tubercular beneath, petiolate ; fls. in short, dense, terminal spikes, pale 

 blue. f Cape of Good Hope. Very pretty. Southward it is hardy. 



2 P. ccerfrlia Kunth. St herbaceous, erect; Ivs. ovate-oblong, acuminate, 

 petiole winged and auriculate at base ; fls. in terminal, loose spikes, blue. 1 f 

 Peru and Chili. 



4 GONIOLOMON speciosum Boiss. (Statice speciosa L.), with white 

 fls., 3 or 4 in each spikelet. 



G. Tartaricum Boiss (S. Tartarica L.), with pink fls., 1 or 2 in a spikelet, 

 both from Russia, are occasionally cultivated. Also 



