270 62. PLUMBAGINACE^. 



Order LXII. PLUMBAGINACE^. 



Cal. 5-cleft, persistent, inferior, plicate. Cor. regular, 5-fid 

 or nearly 5-petalous. Stam. 5, hypogynous, or adnate to the 

 base of the pet. Ovary free, of 5 carpels, 1-celled, 1-seeded; 

 ovule 1, pendulous by a stalk arising from the bottom of the cell. 

 Styles 5. Fr. a utricle. Seed inverted. Embryo in the axis of 

 farinaceous albumen. Radicle superior. 



1. Statice. F1. spiked. Cal. scarious above. Cor. 6-parted. 

 Caps, not bursting. — G. F. G. Gam. i. 4. 



2. Armeria. F1. in a head veith an inverted cylindrical 

 sheath. Caps, not bursting. — G. F. G. Gam. i. 3. 



1. Statice Linn. Sea-Lavender. 



1. S. Limonium (L.); 1. elliptic-oblong stalked mucronate 

 1-ribbed strongly veined, scape subterete branched above corym- 

 bose, spikelets 1 — 3-fiowered ascending forming dense 2-ranked 

 patent or recurved spikes, cal.-segments entire acute vfith inter- 

 mediate teeth, outer bract pointed rounded on the back. — E. B. 

 108. R. xvii. 1111. — Scape usually not branched in its lower 

 half, often not until near the corymbose top. Spikes short; 

 spikelets densely imbricate. — Muddy salt marshes. P. VII. — 

 IX. 



2. S. Bahusiensis (Fries) ; 1. oblong-lanceolate stalked mucro- 

 nate 1-ribbed faintly veined, scape slightly angular usually 

 branched from below the middle panicled , spikelets 1 — 3-flowered 

 unilateral rather distant forming lax erect or incurved spikes, cal.- 

 segments acute denticulate vpith intermediate teeth, outer bract 

 pointed keeled on the back. — R. xvii. 1111. S. rariflora Drej., 

 E. B. S. 2917. — Scape not corymbose, much branched below. 

 Spikes long ; spikelets often 1 -flowered, not imbricate. — Salt 

 maishes. P. VII. VIII. 



3. S. Dodartii (Gir.) ; 1. obovate-spathulate narrowed into a 

 broadly winged stalk 3-ribbed below, scapes rigid alternately 

 branched, no sterile branches, spilielets 2 — ^4-flowered densely 

 imbricate 2-ranked forming linear thick suberect spikes, cal.- 

 segments blunt entire without intermediate teeth. — Scape usually 

 not branched in its lower half; branches often simple, short. 

 Bracts with white margins or sUghtly pink. Anth. oblong. 

 —Rocky shores. P. VII. VIII. E. I. 



4. S. occidenfolis {Uoyi); l.lanceolate-spathulate rather acute 

 narrowed into a long winged stalk obscurely 3-ribbed below, 

 scapes slender wavy dichotomously branched from near the base, 

 few lowest branches sterile, spikelets 2 — 4-fiowered imbricate 2- 



