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rounded head with an inverted cylindrical sheath.) — Name: 

 Flos Armeria was applied by the botanists of the middle ages 

 to some of the Sweet-william Pinks, and is, according to Clusius, 

 the French word armoiries latinized. 



1. A. maritima Willd. (common T, or >S'., or Sea-Gilliflower); 

 leaves linear 1 -nerved, awns of the calyx short. Statice Armeria 

 i. — a. leaves flattish above, calyx-tube uniformly hairy. — /3. 

 leaves flattish above, calyx-tube hairy on the ribs glabrous be- 



Statice Armeria Sm. : E, B. t, 226. 



tween them. 



y. leaves 



A. 



grooved and dotted above, calyx-tube uniformly hairy, 

 pubigera yS. Boiss. — v. leaves grooved above, calyx-tube hairy 

 on the ribs only. A. duriuscula Bab. 



Muddy sea-shores, and among rocks by the sea-side, a. and S. rare; 



^. on the east coast of Scotland and upon the tops of 



— Leaves all radical, numerous. 



7. common ; 



our hiirliest mountains. 



Ur . 4—9. 



Heads oi flowers rose-coloured or white, intermixed with scales, and 

 Imvlng, besides, a brown, membranous, 3-leaved involucre, terminating 

 below in a sheathing jagged covering to the upper part of the scape, 

 which is usually downy, but sometimes glabrous. 



+ 



2. K. plantaginea Willd. (Plantain-leaceA T.) ; leaves linear- 

 lanceolate 3 — 5-nerved, awns of the calyx long. E. B. S. 

 i, 2928. Statice plantaginea AIL 



Abundant 



Island of Jersey 



in the sandy district of Quenvais, on the west side of the 

 rsey. 1/.. 6,7. — This is readily distinguished from 



the last by the broad leaves, and long setaceous teeth to the calyx 

 Flowers pale purple. 



2. Statice, Linn. Sea-Lavander. 



Pet 



Cal funnel-shaped, plaited, dry and membranaceous. 

 united at the base, bearing the stamens. Styles distinct, gla- 

 brous : stigmas filiform, glandular. {Flowers in unilateral 

 spikes on a panicled scape).— Named from arart^^oj, f^to stop ; 

 having been employed, from its astringent qualities, to check 

 dysentery. 



1. S. LimoniitJuL. (spreading-spiJ^ed S,) ; leaves elliptic-Ian- 

 ceolate stalked mueronate single-ribbed, scape with a much- 

 branched spreading corymb at the top, brandies curved out- 

 wards, spikes short densely flowered, calyx-segments acute 

 with intermediate teeth. E. B. t. 102. 



Frequent on the muddy shores and salc-marshes of England. Rare 

 in Scotland and perhaps found only about Berwick upon Tweed. 2/.. 

 7—9.— Leaves 4 inches to a span high, i or | as tall as the scape, 

 slngle-rihbed with lateral oblique veins, mueronate: the mucro Is 

 recurved, being '* a continuation of the margin of the leaf, and is 

 channelled. Scape angular, often furrowed above, with a coarse un- 

 even surface.'* Panicle truly corymbose and level-topped, with 



