STAT’ ICE PUBER’ULA. 
DOWNY STATICE. 
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NATURAL ORDER, PLUMBAGINACE, 
MONOCHLAMYDER, Artificial divisions me 
OF to which snwnaeewlie, 
DECANDOLLE, {Ss Plant oan OF LINNEUS. 
No. 182. 
GENUS. Srarice. Linvavs. Flores distincti. ep infundibuliformis, 
limbo q margine scari Corotta pentapetala 
vel quinque- partita. “STAMINA quinque, imis wets unguibus inserta. 
OvarivM uniloculare. OvuLum unicum, e placenta filiformi libera pendulum. 
Srrxi terminales, quinque, apice intus ‘itigmatofisi. U TRICULUS Membranaceus, 
monospermus, calyce inclusus, demum a basi multifido-solutus, calyptreformis. 
MEN inversum. EmsBryroorthotropus, ALBUMEN parvum. ERBzZ suffru: 
dis, 
STATICE PUBERULA, (Wess) Foliis petiolatis obovatis oblon- 
gisve in tegeeriinie p ubescentibus, scapo angulato — iculato pubescente, 
bracteis obtusis ciliatis convolutis calycis tu bl 
limbo membranaceo colorato patente orfiteulato subcrenato tubo zquilongo. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, STATICE. FLoweErs distinct, not 
united in globose heads. Caryx funnel-shaped; the limb five- 
toothed, with five folds, scariose at the edge. Coroxnua deeply 
five-cleft, or of five petals, STamens five, inserted in the claws of the 
petals at their base. Ovary one-celled. Ovuxe single, hanging 
from a free filiform placenta. Styves five, terminal, bearing stigmas 
at their apex, inside. Frurr a membranous utricle, one-seeded, 
enclosed in the calyx, at length detaching itself. and splitting at the 
base. SEED inverted. Emsryo orthotropous, in a small quantity of 
albumen. ; 
DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, STATICE PUBERULA. RooT pe- 
rennial. Leaves all radical, spreading or somewhat erect, stalked, 
ovate, obovate, or oblong, blunt or terminating in’a small point, nar- 
rowed at the base, one to two inches long, green, quite entire, bearing 
on both sides, and especially on the edge, a number of short hairs. 
Scape angular, almost winged, bearing a very short down, erect, 
about six inches high, and dichotomously divided into a many- 
flowered panicle, having almost the form of a corymb. At each 
ramification are two small brown, broadly ovate, pointed bracts or 
seales. Bracrts. enclosing the flowers, oblong, blunt, brown, pubes- 
