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of the only genus in the Order inhabit temi>erate and sub-tropical 

 regions, mostly near the sea. 



I. Franki'.nia (Sea-Heath). — Stvie divided above into three 

 oblong lobes bearing the stigma. (Name from John Franken, a 

 Swedish botanist.) 



FRANk-|-:NTA L.'FN'r^ {SjUOi^tk S^\l-1 1 cd h). 



I- F. hevJi (Smooth Sea-Heath). — A small procumbent plant, 

 with wiry stems ; leaves crowded, narrow, rolled back at the ed£,'es, 

 smooth, fringed at the base ; flowers rose-coloured. — Salt-marshes 

 on the south-east coast. — i^"l. July, Augilst. Perennial, 



Another species, F. piilvcnilhtfa (Powdery Sea-Heath), with 

 obovate leaves, ])ulvenilent beneath, formerly grew on the Sussex 

 coast, but is now extinct. 



