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PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 

 179. STATICE. Thrift. 



Linn.Gen.i53. Juss. 92. Fl.Br. 340. Tourn.t.l77. Lam.t. 219. 



Gcertn. t. 44, 

 Limonium. Tourn. t. \77. 



Nat. Ord. Aggregatce. Linn. 48. Plumbagines. Juss. 33. 



Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, funnel-shaped; tube contracted; limb 

 undivided, plaited, membranous, dry and permanent. 

 Cor, funnel-shaped, of 5 petals, tapering downward, com- 

 bined at the base, dilated upwards, obtuse, spreading. 

 Filam. awl-shaped, shorter than the petals, and attached 

 to their claws. Anth. incumbent. Germen roundish, 

 very minute. Stales thread-shaped, spreading, perma- 

 nent. Stigmas acute. Caps, oblong, somewhat cylin- 

 drical, membranous, of 1 cell, and 1 valve, with 5 points; 

 clothed with the permanent calyx, and surmounted by its 

 filmy border. Seed solitary, elliptic-oblong, pendulous 

 by a capillary receptacle. 



Character of the fruit cor-rected from Gaertner. 



Rigid perennial herbs, with simple, chiefly radical, leaves. 

 Fl. red, purple, or very rarely yellow, without scent, ever- 

 lasting ; either capitate, or in aggregate, panicled spikes. 



1. ^. Armeria. Common Thrift. Sea Gilliflower. 



Stalks simple. Flowers capitate. Awns of the calyx minute- 

 Leaves linear. 



S. Armeria, Linn. Sp. PL 394. TVilld. v. 1. 1522. Fl. Br. 341. 



Engl. Bot. V. 4. t. 22C). Hook. Scot. 97. 

 S. n. 835. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 372. 

 S. montana minor. Raii Syn. 203. 

 Limonium aphyllocaulon minimum vulgatius, flora globoso. Moris. 



V. 3. 601. sect. I5.t.l.f.29. 

 Caryophyllus marinus omnium minimus. Lob, Ic. 452./. Ger. Em. 



602./. 

 Caryophylleus flos, aphyllocaulos vel junceus^ minor et major. 



Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 336./ 



On muddy sea shores, as well as in the clefts of marine rocks ; and 

 about the borders of alpine rills, on the loftiest mountains. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Root long, and woody. Leaves numerous, all radical, lax, linear, 

 channelled, smooth, a little fleshy, of a deep green. Stalks a 



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