430 ARMERIACEAE newberrya 



ARMERIA 



ers white or yellowish, numerous, in a dense oblong raceme : sepals lance- 

 olate, acute or acuminate, sparingly laciniate-toothed, about equalling the 

 bracts : petals narrowly spatulate, 6 lines long, much longer than the 

 sepals, the obtuse apex laciniately fimbriolate. In dense forests of the 

 Cascade Mountains near the hot springs in Clackamas Co., Oregon. Rare. 



7 NEWBERRYA Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii, 55. 



Low fleshy erect plants with red or brownish flowers in a ter- 

 minal cluster. Calyx incomplete, of two bract-like entire sepals. 

 Corolla tubular-urceolate, 4- or 5-lobecl, persistent. Stamens 

 twice as many as lobes of the corolla; filaments filiform, long- 

 hairy above the middle; anthers oblong, the cells opening from 

 apex to base into two unequal valves. Ovary ovate, contracted 

 at the apex into a long style; stigma depressed-capitate, umbili- 

 cate. Placentae 4, with broad divergent lamellae which meet ad- 

 jacent edges, ovuliferous both sides, giving the appearance of 4 

 exterior cells surrounding a central larger one. 



N. congesta Torr. 1. c. Whole plant brownish, glabrous, 4-8 inches 

 high : scales crowded or loosely imbricated, obtuse, thinnish, with ob- 

 scurely erose margins ; the upper forming similar bracts of the densely 

 crowded glomerule of floweis: lobes of the corolla ovate, one-third the 

 length of the cylindraceous or slightly urceolate tube: filaments equalling 

 the slender style : anthers narrowly oblong, the line of dehiscence close to 

 the connective. In the high mountains of Washington to California. 



Order LVII ARMERIACEAE. 



Somewhat woody plants with alternate leaves and regular sym- 

 metrical 5-merous perfect flowers : chiefly of saline soils. Calyx 

 costate at the sinuses, persistent. Corolla with claws to the nearly 

 distinct petals, or these united into a tube, convolute or rarely 

 imbricated in the bud. Stamens as many as divisions of the 

 corolla and opposite to them : the filaments adnate only to their 

 base, or completely hypogynous : anthers 3-celled, opening longi- 

 tudinally. Disk none. C3vary free, one-celled, with a solitary 

 anatropous ovule pendulous on a slender funiculus which rises 

 from the base of the cell. Styles 5, distinct or united. Fruit 

 dry, utricular or achene-like, somewhat dehiscent by a lid, or 

 by valves. Seed with a straight embryo, and with or without 

 mealy albumen. 



1 ARMERIA Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol 333. 



Acaulescent perennials with narrow persistent leaves in close 

 tufts and naked scapes with a reversed sheath under the compact 

 head of red flowers which are surrounded and subtended by 

 scarious bracts and bractlets. Calyx funnelform, regularly 10- 

 costate at base, the limb scarious. Corolla of 5 nearly distinct 

 long-clawed petals, each with a stamen attached to its base. 

 Styles 5, filiform, united only at the very base, stigmatose above 

 along the inner side. Utricle at length bursting irregularly at the 

 base. 



