62. PLUMBAGINACEA, 261 
blunt with a point, racemes many-flowered ultimately elongated, 
caps. subglobose.—. B. 703.—Remarkable in this order by its 
cal. adhering to the germen and by having a crown to the corolla. 
—Damp watery places. P. VII. VIII. Brook-weed. 
Order LXIL. 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. Radical superior. 
1. Srarics. Fl. spiked. Cal. scarious above. Cor. 5-parted. 
Caps. not bursting. —G. F. G. Gam. i. 4. 
2. ArmertIA. Fil. in a head with an inverted cylindrical 
sheath. Caps. not bursting.—G. F. G. Gam. i. 3. 
1. Statice Linn. 
1, S. Limonium (L.); 1. elliptic-oblong stalked mucronate 
1-ribbed strongly nerved, scape subterete branched above corym- 
bose, spikelets 1—3-flowered ascending forming dense 2-ranked 
patent or recurved spikes, cal.-segments entire acute with inter- 
mediate teeth, outer bract pointed small.—E. B.102.—Scape 
usually not branched in its lower half, often not until near the 
corymbose top. Spikes short, spikelets densely imbricate.— 
Muddy salt marshes. P. VIT.—IX. Sea-Lavender. 
2. S. Bahusiensis (Fries); 1. oblong-lanceolate stalked mucro- 
nate l-ribbed faintly veined, scape slightly angular usually 
branched from below the middle panicled, spikelets |—3-fiowered 
unilateral rather distant forming laa erect or incurved spikes, cal.- 
segments acute denticulate with intermediate teeth, outer bract 
pointed small.—S. rariflora Drej., E. B.S. 2917.—Scape nearly 
always branching from near its base, not at all corymbose, much 
branched below. Spikes long; spikelets often 1-flowered, not 
imbricate.—Salt marshes. 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, spikelets 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 slightly pmk.—Rocky shores. P. 
VIL. VIII. E. 
4. S. occidentalis (Lloyd); 1. lanceolate-spathulate rather acute 
