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Town, where few other plants will grow. Its stems are straggling, 
crooked, and more or less procumbent, and its thick, leathery, smooth, 
obovate leaves, which grow in close terminal tufts, seem to be proof 
against the injurious effects of salt spray. 
It bears rather curious white flowers, looking as if slit open on one ~ 
side. The berries are as large as a small grape, smooth, black, and 
have a very disagreeable taste. The juice makes a nearly indelible 
black stain, and is said to be sometimes used for marking linen. 
It is also native of the tropical coasts of America, Africa, and 
Asia. 
Sea Lavender. (Statice Lefroyi Hems.) 
Hemsley, Voy. Challenger, Bot., i, p. 47, pl. iv. 
Salt marshes at Walsingham. Endemic. 
Sea Turnstole. (Zeliotropum curassuvicum 1.) 
A native plant growing on the salt marshes. It bears twin flower- 
spikes, curving over in opposite directions. 
Sea Lavender. (Tournefortia gnaphalodes R. B.) 
FIGURE 38. 
Figure 38.—Sea Lavender (Tournefortia gnaphalodes R. B.) 
A native shrub, common on the South Shore near the sea. Its 
leaves are silky and hoary-gray, narrow, elongated, and are crowded 
toward the tips of the branches. The flowers are white or pinkish, 
in small, downy, one-sided, curved spikes. The corolla is 5 or 6 lobed, 
fleshy and plicate, downy outside. 
