380 Globutarietz Glodu'laria. 



leaves and solitary flower-heads terminating the branches. 

 Flowers blue, appearing in early Summer. 



G. nudicaulis is another common European species with ob- 

 tuse radical leaves, leafless flower-scapes, and blue flowers. 



ORDER LXXXVIIL PLUMBAGINACE^l. 



Herbs or undershrubs, for the greater part denizens of salt 

 marshes and the sea-shores. Leaves simple, alternate or clus- 

 tered, exstipulate. Flowers regular, bisexual, in branched 

 panicles, or clustered in involucrate heads. Calyx tubular, 

 plaited, persistent, sometimes scarious and coloured. Corolla 

 monopetalous, with a narrow tube, or composed of 5 separate 

 clawed petals. Stamens 5, epipetalous, or hypogynous in the 

 monopetalous genera. Styles usually 5, rarely 3 or 4. Fruit 

 a 1-celled 1-seeded indehiscent or irregularly dehiscent utricle. 

 Seed pendulous. There are 10 genera, and upwards of 200 

 widely scattered species. 



1. ARMERIA. 



Perennial tufted evergreen herbs with linear radical leaves 

 and leafless flower-scapes. Flowers pedicellate, collected in 

 dense solitary heads. Involucre scarious, sheathing the scape, 

 and reversed or turned downwards. Petals cohering at the base 

 persistent. There are about thirty species, inhabiting the sea- 

 coasts and the mountains of the temperate regions of the north, 

 a few reaching the Arctic regions and South America. Flos 

 Armericeis the Latin name for the flowers of a species of Pink. 



1. A. vulgaris, syn. A. maritima, Stdtice Armeria, etc. 

 Common Thrift, Sea-Pink, or Lady's Cushion. Leaves linear, 

 usually 1 -nerved, and more or less pubescent. Flower-scapes 

 in cultivation from 6 to 12 inches high. Flowers pink, rosy 

 red, lilac or white. This species is common on the sea-coast 

 and the summits of lofty mountains in this country, and has 

 besides a very wide range of distribution. A. alplna is a dwarfer 

 mountain form of this species. 



2. A. plantaginea. A glabrous stouter-growing species 

 with broader 3- to 5-nerved leaves and taller scapes. Flowers 

 bright rose, not so profuse as in the last. A. leucdntha is a 

 white-flowered variety of tl.is species. Found in Jersey, and 

 southward in Europe. 



