380 Globular tew—-Globularia. 
leaves and solitary flower-heads terminating the branches. 
Flowers blue, appearing in early Summer. 
G. nudicailis is another common European species with ob- 
tuse radical leaves, leafless flower-scapes, and blue flowers. 
Orver LXXXVIII—PLU MBAGINACE. 
Herbs or undershrubs, for the greater part denizens of salt 
marshes and the sea-shores. Leaves simple, alternate or clus- 
tered, exstipulate. Flowers regular, bisexual, in branched 
panicles, or clustered in involucrate heads. Calyx tubular, 
plaited, persistent, sometimes scarious and coloured. Corolla 
monopetalous, with a narrow tube, or composed of 5 separate 
clawed petals. Stamens 5, epipetalous, or hypogynous in the 
monopetalous genera. Styles usually 5, rarely 3 or 4. Fruit 
a l-celled 1-seeded indehiscent or irregularly dehiscent. utricle. 
Seed pendulous. There are 10 yenera, and upwards of 200 
widely scattered species. 
1. ARMERIA. 
Perennial tufted evergreen herbs with linear radical leaves 
and leafless flower-scapes. Flowers pedicellate, collected in 
dense solitary heads. Involucre scarious, sheathing the scape, 
and reversed or turned downwards. Petals cohering at the base 
persistent. There are about thirty species, inhabiting the sea- 
coasts and the mountains of the temperate regions of the north, 
a few reaching the Arctic regions and South America. Flos 
Armeric is the Latin name for the flowers of a species of Pink. 
1. A. vulgiris, syn. A. maritima, Statice Arméria, ete. 
Common Thrift, Sea-~Pink, or Lady's Cushion.—Leaves linear, 
usually 1-nerved, and more or less pubescent. Flower-scapes 
in cultivation from 6 to 12 inches high. Flowers pink, rosy 
red, lilac or white. This species is common on the sea-coast 
and the summits of lofty mountains in this country, and has 
besides a very wide range of distribution. A. alpina isa dwarter 
mountain form of this species. 
2. A. plantaginea.—A glabrous stouter-growing species 
with broader 3- to 5-nerved leaves and taller scapes. Flowers 
bright rose, not so profuse as in the last. A. lewedntha is a 
white-flowered variety of this species. Found in Jersey, and 
southward in Europe. 
