PLUMBAGINEiE. 



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more compact, with rather larger flowers 

 than in the common 8. 9 but the spikes 

 themselves are fewer and more distant, 

 forming an elongated, not a corymbose 

 panicle. The bracts are greener and 

 longer. 



On dry, rocky, maritime banks, or 

 more rarely in sands, on the shores of 

 western Europe, penetrating also far 

 along the Mediterranean. In Britain, 

 it extends up the west coast to Wigton- 

 shire, but not beyond Lincolnshire on 

 the east coast, and occurs in Ireland. 

 Fl. summer. 



Fig. 816. 



3. Matted Statice. Statice reticulata, Linn. (Fig. 817.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 328.) 



This is a still smaller plant than the 

 last, with leaves often not more than 

 6 lines long ; the lower branches of the 

 panicle numerous, very much branched, 

 and usually without flowers, whilst the 

 central ones bear numerous short spikes 

 of small flowers, with the bracts white 

 and scarious nearly from the base. 



In maritime sands, all round the Me- 

 diterranean and in western Asia, ex- 

 tending more sparingly up the west 

 coast of France. In Britain, only in the 

 counties of Norfolk, Cambridge, and 

 Lincoln. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 817. 



II. THRIFT. ARMERIA. 



Flowers in a terminal, globular head, intermixed with scarious scales, 



