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PRIMULACE.<F. PLUMBAGINEjE. 
St. usually prostrate. Cor. pale rose-colour. — Damp sandy and 
gravelly places. A. VI. VII. Bastard Pimpernel. 
7. Trientalis Linn. 
I. T. europcea (L.) ; oblong-obovate obtuse. — E. B. 15. — St. 
4 — 6 in. high, with the 1. mostly collected at the top. Fl. on 
slender peduncles, white with a yellow ring. Parts of the fl. and 
fr. varying from 7 to 9 in each whorl. Valves of the caps, soon 
falling oft'. — North of England and highlands of Scotland. 
P. VI. E. S. 
8. Glaux Linn. 
1. G. maritima (L.). The only species. — E. B. 13. — St. 
mostly procumbent. L. opposite, ovate, glabrous. Fl. axillary, 
sessile, pink, with obtuse segments. Distinguished from all the 
other plants of this Order by its want of pet. — Sea-shores and 
salt marshes. P. VI.— VIII. 
9. Samolus Linn. 
1. S. Valerandi (L.) ; 1. obovate or roundish blunt, upper 1. 
blunt with a point, racemes many-flowered ultimately elongated, 
caps, subglobose. — E. B. 703. — Distinguished from all the other 
genera of the Order by its cal. adhering to the germen and from 
all but Soldanella by having a crown to the corolla. — Damp 
watery places. P. VII. VIII. Brook-weed. 
Order LXIII. PLUMB AGINEiE. 
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, 1-celled, 1-seeded; ovule 1, pendu- 
lous by an umbilical cord arising from the bottom of the cell. 
Styles 5. Fr. a utricle. Seed inverted. Embryo in the axis of 
farinaceous albumen. Radicle superior. 
1. Statice. Fl. spiked. Cal. scarious above. Cor. 5-parted. 
Caps, not bursting. 
2. Armeria. Fl. in a head with an inverted cylindrical 
sheath. Caps, not bursting. 
1. Statice Linn. 
1. S. Limonium (L.) ; 1. elliptic-oblong stalked mucronate 
1 -ribbed strongly nerved, scape branched above the middle, 
branches much divided corymbose curved outwards, ultimate sub- 
divisions short unilateral ascending densely flowered, cal.-segments 
entire acute with intermediate teeth, outer bracts pointed small. 
E. B. 102. S. Behen Drej.— Panicle very much subdivided. 
