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PLUMBAOfNE^'E 



purple.— Rocky shores at Portland; but, perhaps, extinct.— Fl. 

 July, August. Perennial. 



4. L. lychnidifolium, with large leathery leaves with 5^9 vein.s, 

 slems with large scales, and broad dark-red hrarls (occurs sparmgly 

 on rocks m Alderney.— Fl. July, August. Perennial. 



5. L. binervosum (Spathulate Sea-Lavender).— A variable 

 plant, known to Gerard as " Rocke Lavender," 6— 18 in. high ; 

 stem usually branching from the base ; branches repeatedly bifur- 

 cating, rough ; leaves 

 lanceolate - spathulate, 

 sometimes acute, i — 3- 

 veined ; spikes linear, 

 'slender, sub-erect ; spike- 

 lets 2 — 4-fl()wercd, in 2 

 'rows ; 7t!iier bracts oval, 

 with broad membraxious 

 margin, deep pink. Not 

 uncommon on rocky 

 coasts. — Id. July,August. 

 Perennial. 



6. L. belUdifolium 

 (Matted Sea-Lavender). 

 - — Leaves blunt, i -ribbed, 

 short - stalked ; flower - 

 stalks rough, divided 

 almost from the base 

 into numerous zigzag 

 luancbes, the lower of 

 which are flowerless. — 

 Salt marshes of Lincoln, 

 Norfolk and Cambridge. 

 — Fl. July, August. 

 Perennial. 



I tM^N'IUM BlNERv6suM {Sfintfuilate Sca-Lavendcr) 

 and L.TATlcH M.\RiTl,MA {Tln-i/l). 



2. Statice (Thrift). — 

 Leaves all radical, very narrow; flowers iy dense heads ot bracteate 

 cymes, with a reversed, tubular, membranous involucre; petals 

 cohering, ])ersistent; styles hairy. (Name from tlie Greek stalizo, 

 I staunch, from the use of this, or some allied, plant as a styptic.) 

 I. 5. innritima{'V\\\\h, Sea-Pink). — Le^jz/M linear, 1 -nerved, fleshy, 

 pubescent, forming dense tufts or balls ; flower-stalks leafless, 

 downy, unbranched scapes, 3 — 6 in. high, their summits cased in 

 brown membranous sheaths ; flowers rose-coloured, in roundish 

 heads, intermixed with chaffy bracts; fruit almost winged by the 



