PL ex. cor. 19. LITTORELLIDE^. 51.Littorel. 295 



flaccid ; before aostivation iiiduplicate ; anthers 2-celled, 

 opening longitudinally ; rudiment of the pistill minute. — 

 Fem. Calyx none ; bractecp 3 ; corolla urceolate, undivided, 

 contracted at the mouth, slightly toothed; stamens 0; ovary 

 1-celled, 1-seeded; ovule upright; style 1, capillary, very 

 long; stigma hispid, not cut; pyxidium 1-seeded. — Herb 

 stemless; leaves linear, nishlike, dilated at bottom, rather 

 sheathing; male jloiver peduncled, solitary; peduncle with 

 a pellucid, reticulated, membranaceous bractea about the 

 middle ; female flowers 2 or 3, radical, sessile. 



£1. LITTORELLA. Linnaaus. Shore-iueed. 



No other genus in this family. 



11. 



Littorella lacustris. Lake shore-weed. 



Plantago palustris graniineo folio monanthos, Parisieiisis, Rati Syn. 



Planta^o nniflora, Lin. S. P. 167. 

 Littorella lacustris, Lin. Mant. 295, 



Inundated sandy places ; perennial ; .Tune. 

 Root fusiform ; leaves bald, convex beneath ; flowers up-^ 

 right, white; style nearly as long as the scape. 



&. hirsuta. Leaves hairy. 



Fam. III. 20. STATICIN^. Hoffmansegg and Link. 



Plumhaginum pars. Jussieu, 

 Perigonium double, persisting; calyx 1 -leafed, tubular, 

 not cut, plaited, persisting ; corolla 5-petaled, equal ; sta- 

 mens 5, adnate to the claw of the petals; ovary 1, free, 

 1-seeded; ovule upright; placentarium apicular ; placenta 

 threadlike, bent; styles 5', stigmata 5 \ utriculus membra- 

 naceous; spermodermis single, coriaceous; perisperm fa- 

 rinaceous ; corculum central, compressed, erect, nearly as 

 long as the seed ; plumula inconspicuous ; radicle below. — 

 Herbaceous or under-shrubby ; leaves simple, not cut, al- 

 ternate or crowded, radical ; rather sheathing at bottom ; 

 flowers hermaphrodite, capitate or spiked. 



Flowers capitate, involucrated ; 

 leaves radical Statice. 52, 



Flowers sessile, spread ; 

 ZfOfw-spread , Limonium. 53. 



