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Statice. | LIX. PLUMBAGINEZ. 365 
Britain only in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridge. 1. 
summer. 
Il, ARMERIA. THRIFT, 
Flowers in a terminal, globular head, intermixed with scarious scales, 
of which the outer ones form a kind of involucre, and the 2 outer- 
most of all are lengthened below their insertion into appendages form- 
ing a sheath round the upper part of the peduncle. Calyx usually 
drier and more scarious than in Statice, the petals scarcely united at 
their very base, and the styles hairy in the lower part. 
A genus of very few species, separated from Statice chiefly on account | 
of their inflorescence, which gives them a peculiar habit. 
Leaves narrow-linear, l-nerved. Teeth of the calyx short. . L.A. vulgaris. 
Leaves lanceolate- linear, 3- or 4-nerved. Teeth of the oe long 
and fine. : . 2. A. plantaginea. 
1. A. vulgaris, Willd. (fg. 826), oeliiees T'., Sea pink.—The stock 
forms perennial tufts, with numerous radical leaves, all narrow-linear, 
entire, with a single ‘prominent midrib. Flowering stems simple and 
leafless, glabrous or shortly downy, 3 or 4 inches to twice that 
height, each bearing a globular head of pink or sometimes white 
flowers ; the petal-like border of the calyx crowned by 5 very short, 
slender teeth. 
On muddy or sandy sea-shores, and on maritime rocks, in the northern 
hemisphere, from the Arctic regions to near the tropics, reappearing 
in the southern hemisphere beyond the tropics, and also at consider- 
able elevations in the high mountain-chains of Europe and Asia. 
Abundant on our British coasts and on the tops of some of the Scotch 
mountains. Fl. summer. [The mountain form has rather broader 
leaves, and is var. planifolit, Syme. | 
2. A. plantaginea, Willd. (fig. 827). Plantain 7.—Very near the 
last, and perhaps one of its numerous forms, but the leaves are much 
broader, usually marked with 8 or 5 parallel nerves, the flower-stalk is 
often a foot high or more, and the slender teeth of the calyx are much 
longer than in A, vulgaris. 
On sandy heaths and wastes, in western Europe, extending northward 
to the English Channel and eastward to the Rhine. In our flora only 
in Jersey. Fl. summer. 
LX. PLANTAGINEA. THE PLANTAIN FAMILY. 
Herbs, with radical, tufted or spreading leaves, and leafless 
flower-stalks, bearing a simple spike or a single terminal flower 
(the stem in some exotic species becoming elongated, branched, 
and leafy). Sepals 4. Corolla small, scarious, with an ovate 
or cylindrical tube, and 4 spreading lobes. Stamens 4, alter- 
nating with the lobes of the corolla, and usually very long. 
Ovary 1-, 2-, or 4-celled, with 1 or more ovules in each cell, and 
