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PLUMBAGfNEjE 



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

 July, August. Perennial. 



4. L. lychnidifolium, with large leathery leaves with 5 — 9 veins, 

 stems with large scales, and broad dark-red bracts occurs sparingly 

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



5. L. binervbsum (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, 1 — 3- 

 veined ; spikes linear, 

 slender, sub-erect ; spike- 

 lets 2 — 4-flowered, in 2 

 rows ; inner bracts oval, 

 with broad membranous 

 margin, deep pink. Not 

 uncommon on rocky 

 coasts. — Fl. July, August. 

 Perennial. 



6. L. bellidif olium 

 (Matted Sea-Lavender). 

 — Leaves blunt, 1 -ribbed, 

 short - stalked ; flower - 

 stalks rough, divided 

 almost from the base 

 into numerous zigzag 

 branches, the lower of 

 which are flowerless. — 

 Salt marshes of Lincoln, 

 Norfolk and Cambridge. 

 — Fl. July, August. 

 Perennial. 



1.IM6NIUM BINERVOSUM {Spathulate Sea-Lavender) 

 and statice MARrriMA (Tkrift). 



2. Statice (Thrift).— 

 Leaves all radical, very narrow; flowers in dense heads of bracteate 

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

 cohering, persistent; styles hairy. (Name from the Greek statizo, 

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

 1. S. maritima (Thrift, Sea-Pink). — Leaves 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 



