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SEA-LAVENDER, 
LIMONIU™M, 
Ghee flower is compofed of four petals : 
the top; and they unite fo as to form 
{mall, formed of a fingle leaf, tubular, 
the edge. 
naked, and contained in the cup. 
thefe are oblong, narrow at the bottom, and broad at 
an oblong, flender tube, 
and wide at the mouth: 
There is befides this a common or general cup, 
a long feries of them. This is of an imbricated form. 
The cup to each flower is 
: it is not divided, but is folded at 
ferving to many flowers, and containing 
The feed after every flower is fingle, 
Linnzus places this among the pentandria pentagynia; the threads in the flower being five, and the 
ftyles from the rudiment of the feed the fame in 
number. 
This author confounds the /ea lavender with thrift. 
He takes away the generical name Limoniums 
and makes all thefe plants fpecies of ffatice: but there is an abfolute and effential diftin@ion in the 
general cup, which fupports that in the form and univerfal afpe&@. Thus Nature confirms her ob- 
vious differences, and thus this author has confounded them 5 not heedlefsly, for he names this very 
difference, acknowledging, that while the common cup of 
flowers in a long feries, and is fimple, 
prehends them ina round clufter. This we hall 
the dimonium contains a great number of 
and of an oblong form; that of Jtatice is triple, and com- 
explain at large in its place, treating of fatice. 
We have in this plant an inftance alfo of Linneeus’s error in feparating the naturally-allied genera 
of the prefent clafs, 
Aatice among the pentagynia, 
ceeding genera. 
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1. Common Sea-Lavender, 
Limonium vulgare, 
The root is long, thick, divided, and fpread- 
ing. 
The leaves rife in a large tuft : they are 
oblong, and confiderably broad: they have fhort 
footftalks, and are of a deep, dufky, bluifh green. 
The ftalk is round, firm, upright, and di- 
vided into many branches : it is of a pale green, 
and has no leaves, 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches 
in feveral long feries, principally on one fide , 
and they are fmail and purple. 
The feed is fingle, fmall, roundifh, and brown. 
Tt is common in falt marfhes, and about our 
coafts. It flowers in June. 
C, Bauhine calls it Limonium maritimum majus. 
Others, Limonium vulgare, 
The roots of this plant are powerfully aftrin- 
gent: they may be given in decoétion, or in 
powder ; and they ftop loofenefiés. 
The feeds are good in the diabetes. 
2. Dwarf Sea-Lavender. 
Limonium foliis feffilibus parvuss, 
The root is long, flender, of a redith colour, 
and furnifhed with feveral fibres. 
The leaves rife in a clufter; and are fmall, and 
' of a pale bluifh green: they are oblong, nar- 
row, and fharp-pointed ; and they have no foot- 
ftalks, but rife from the root immediately by a’ 
narrow bafe. 
The ftalks are numerous, flender, and divided 
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the valerian and valerianella being placed among the trigynia, and this and the 
But this is little to what we fhall have occafion to obferve in-the fuc- 
BRITISH: SPECIES: 
into feveral branches: they are ufually naked, 
asin the other ; but fometimes there grows a leaf 
or two near their bafe, refembling thofe from the 
root. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a very pale 
flefhy purple: they ftand in many long feries on 
the tops of the branches. 
It is common on our falt marfhes, 
in May. 
Some have confounded it with the former as a 
variety ; bur its leaves fpeak it a perfe&tly difting 
fpecies, : 
Ray calls it Limonium minus. 
nium parvum, ¢ 
and flowers 
Others, Limo- 
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3. Sea-Lavender, with umbellated flowers, 
Limonium floribus umbellatis. 
The root is long, thick, of a dufky brown, 
and furnifhed with many fibres, 
The leaves rife in a large tuft; and they are 
long, narrow, fharp-pointed, of a deep green, 
and placed on fhort, red footfkalks, 
The ftalks are numerous, tall, thick, and di- 
vided toward the top into numerous branches ; » 
the height of the plant is a foot and half, and its 
tops fpread two feet in breadth. 
The flowers are fmail and purple: they ftand 
at diftances from one another, and form a kind of 
umbel. 
It is common about our fouthern 
flowers in July. 
Ray calls it Limonium Anglicum minus. caulibus 
ramofioribus, floribus in Jpicis rarius JSitis. Minus 
is an ill term, for it often grows very large. 
coafts, and 
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