PENTAMDRlA PENTAGYNIA. 173 



The flalk is aboiit a foot high, angular, and often 

 a little twifted, bearing a fingle white flower at 

 top : the leaves are heart-fhap'd, thofe on the 

 ftalk fellile : the flower is white, with five fl:ri- 

 ated petals : the nedaria are of a yellowifli green 

 color, heart-fliap'd and ciliated : the cilia ter- 

 minated each with little yellow pellucid fpheres j 

 a very diftinguifhing character of this plant. 



PENTAGYNIA. 



STATICEi Gen, pi. 388. 

 CaL i-phyllus, integer, plicatus, fcariofus. PePala 

 5. Seni. 1, fuperum; 

 firmeria i » STATICE fcapo fimplici capitato, foliis linearibusa 

 Sp. pL 394. {Moris, hijl. f. 15. t. 1. f. 29. Geri 

 Em. 602./. I. Pet. herb. t. 72./. 8.) 

 Thrift or Sea Gilly-floweri Anglis. Bar-dearg. 



Gaulis, 

 The mofl: humble and mofl: lofty of plants. It 

 grows frequently upon the fea-fliores, and upon 

 the fummits of the highefl; mountains. %, VII. 



LINUM. Gen. pi 389. 



Cat. 5-phyllus. Petala ^. Capfula 5-valvis, lo-lo^ 

 cularis. Sem. folitaria. 



* Foliis alternis. 

 pfitatiffi- LlNUM calycibus capfulifq ; mucronatis, petalis 

 mum I. crenatis, foliis lanceolatis alternis, caule fubfoli- 



' tario. Sp. pi. 397. (Ger. Em. Ss^- MoHs.hift.f, 

 5. t. 26./. J. ad dextram ordinisfccundi.) 



