430 ARMERIACE^E newberrya 



ARMERIA 



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-lobed, persistent. Stamens twice 

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

 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, umbilicate. 

 Placentae 4, with broad divergent lamellae which meet adjacent 

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

 cells surrounding a central larger one. 



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

 high : scales crowded or loosely imbricated, obtuse, thinnish, with obscurely 

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

 glomerule of flowers : 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 connec- 

 tive. In the high mountains of Washington to California. 



Order LVII ARMERIACE^E 



Somewhat woody plants with alternate leaves and regular 

 symmetrical 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 2-celled, 

 opening longitudinally. Disk none. Ovary free, one-celled, 

 with a solitary anatropous ovule pendulous on a slender funic- 

 ulus which rises from the base of the cell. Styles 5, distinct 

 or united. Fruit dry, utricular or achene-like, somewhat dehis- 

 cent by a lid, or by valves. Seed with a straight embryo, and 

 with or without mealy albumen. 



1 ARMERIA Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol 333. 



Acquiescent 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. St}des 

 5, filiform, united only at the veiy base, stigmatose above along 

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



A. vulgaris Willd 1. c. Scapes 8-12 inches high: leaves narrowly 

 linear, flat or flattish, 1-3 inches long: bracts very obtuse: calyx at base 

 simply decurrent on the pedicel ; the tube 10-nerved, hairy at least on the 



