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62. PLTJMBAGrNACE^. 
hairs (usually blue), 1. ovate-oblong. E. B. 1823. Probably 
distinct. Mr Borrer suspected that each varies with red or 
blue flowers. — Corn-fields and sand-hills by the sea. A. ? 
VI. VII. Scarlet Pimpernel. E. S. I. 
2. A. tenel'la (Murr.) ; st. p7'ocumbent rooting, fl. axillary 
solitary, 1. opposite stalked roundish, cor. funne:lshaped, pet. 
much exceeding the calyx Gni\v&, filaments connected heloiv. — 
E. B. 530. — Fed. long. Fl. rather large, rose-coloured. L. 
nearly sessile. Spongy bogs. P. VII. Vlll. Bog -Pimpernel. 
E. S. I. 
8. Centun'cuitjs Linn. Bastard Pimpernel. 
1. C. minimus (L.) ; 1. alternate ovate acute, fl. nearly 
sessile, cor. without glands at the base. — E. B. 531. — Usually 
very minute. St. usually prostrate. Cor. very small, pale 
rose-colour. — Damp sandy and gravelly places. — A. VI. VII. 
E. S. I. 
Tribe IV. Samolece. 
9. Sam'olus Linn. Brook-weed. 
1. S.Valeran'di (L.); 1. obovate or roundish blunt, upper 1. 
blunt with a point, racemes many-flowered ultimately elongated, 
caps, subglobose. — E. B. 703. — Eemarkable in this Order by 
its cal. adhering to the germen and by having a crown to the 
small white corolla. — Damp watery places. P. VII. VIII. 
E. S. I. 
Order LXII. PLUMBAGINACE^.. 
Cal. 5-cleft, persistent, inferior, plicate. Cor. regular, 5-fid 
or nearly 5-petalous. Stam. 5, hypogynous, or adnate to the 
base of and opposite to the pet. Ovary free, of 5 carpels, 
1 -celled, 1 -seeded : ovule 1, pendulous by a stalk arising from 
the bottom of the cell. Styles 5. Fr. a utricle. Seed in- 
verted. Embryo in the axis of farinaceous albumen, lladicle 
superior. — Stip. 0. 
1. LiMONiUM. — Fl. spiked. Cal. scarious above. Cor. 5- 
parted. Styles glabrous. Caps, not bursting. 
2. Statice. Fl. in a head with an inverted cylindrical 
sheath. Styles hairy below. Caps, not bursting. 
