160 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



indistinctly 3-nerved, ciliated ; in the scapes being densely and shortly 

 pubescent, and in the time of commencing to flower being nearly a 

 month in advance of A. plantaginea. 



On the slopes of St. Brelade's Bay, growing with its two supposed 

 parents. 



Channel Islands. Perennial. Early Summer. 



Perhaps a sub-species of A. plantaginea, but it is so exactly inter- 

 mediate betAveen A. vulgaris and A. plantaginea, that it is more pro- 

 bable that it is of hybrid origin. 



GENUS IL—S T A T I E. Linn. Willd. 



Flowers in spikelets arranged in unilateral spikes, which are com- 

 bined so as to form panicles or corymbs. Corolla funnelshaped, of 

 5 petals united only at the base. Styles glabrous below. 



Herbs with the leaves often obovate or oblanceolate. Flowers of 

 various colours, in spikelets, which are arranged in spikes; spikelets 

 each enveloped by 3 partially scarious bracteoles. 



The derivation of the name of this genus of plants is from the Greek word 'or/j/n, 

 to make to stand, from its power to arrest fluxes, and to act as an astringent. 



Section I.— LIMONIUM. Gren. and Godr, 



Leaves pinnately veined. Scapes and their branches not winged. 

 Axes of the spike not produced beyond the flowers. Calyx shghtly 

 oblique at the base ; the Umb not a^VTied. 



SPECIES I.— STATICE LIMONIUM. Linn. 



Plates MCLVI. MCLVII. MCLVin. 



Rootstock thick, somewhat fleshy. Leaves conspicuously stalked, 

 obovate or oblanceolate or strapshaped-oblanceolate petiolate, often 

 aristate, pinnately veined. Scapes corymbosely or paniculately 

 branched in the upper half or two-thirds, destitute (or nearly desti- 

 tute) of sterile branches. Spikelets 1- to ' 3-flowered, arranged in 

 2-ranked unilateral subdistichous spreading or recurved or erect and 

 sometimes incurved spikes. Inner bracteole twice as long as the outer 

 one, and twice or once and a-half as long as the intermediate one. 

 Calyx segments triangular, acute, entire, with a minute tooth in each 

 sinus. Plant glabrous. 



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