270 61. PEIirTTLACEiE. 62. PLUJIBAGINACB^. 
nute. St. usually prostrate. Cor. very small, pale rose-colour. 
— -Damp sandy and gravelly places. A. YI. YU.. E. S. I. 
7. Tetenta'lis Linn. 
1. T. europcd'a (L.) ; 1. oblong-otovate blunt. — B. 15. — 
St. 4 — 6 in. high, with the 1. mostly collected at the top. Fl. on 
slender peduncles, white with a yellow ring. Part.? of the fl. and 
fr. ■i'ar-N'ing from 7 to 9 in each whorl. ' Valves of the caps, soon 
falling off— North of E. ; Highlands of S. P. VI. E. S. 
8. GiATJX Linn. Black Saltwort. 
1. G. marit'ima (L.). — E. B. 13. — St. mostly procumbent. 
Ij. opposite, ovate, glabrous. Fl. axillary, sessile, pink, with 
blunt segments. Eemarkable in this Order by its want of petals. 
— Sea-shores and salt marshes. P. VI. — ^\"1II. E. S. I. 
9. SA3i'oLrs Linn. Brook-weed. 
1. S. Valeran'di (L.); 1. obovate or roimdish blimt, upper 1. 
blunt with a point, racemes many-flowered idtimately elon^-ated, 
caps, subglobose. — E. B. 70-3. — Remarkable 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. Vin. E. S. I. 
Order LXII. PLUMBAGINACE.E. 
Cal. 5-cleft, persistent, inferior, plicate. Cor. regular, 5-fid 
or nearly 5-petalou8. Stam. 5, hypogynous, or adnate to the 
base of the pet. Ovaiy free, of 5 carpels, 1-ceIled, 1-seeded ; 
ovule 1, pendulous by a stalk arising fi-om the bottom of the cell. 
Styles 5. Fr. a utricle. Seed inverted. Embryo in the axis of 
farinaceous albumen. Eadicle superior. — G. F. G. Gam. i. 3 & 4. 
1. Statice. Fl. spiked. Cal. scarious above. Cor. 5-parted. 
Styles glabrous. Caps, not bursting. 
2. Akmebia. Fl. in a head with an inverted cylindrical 
sheath. Styles hairy below. Caps, not bm-sting. 
1. Stat'ice Linn. Sea-Lavender. 
1. -S". Limhiitim (L.) ; 1. elliptic-oblong .stalked mucronate 
1-ribbed strongly veined, st. subterete branched above corym- 
bose, spikelets I — 3-flowered ascending forming dense 2-ranked 
patent or recxned spikes, cal. -segments entire acute with inter- 
mediate teeth, Older bract pointed rounded on the hack. — E. B. 
102. R. xvii. 1140.— St. 0—18 in. high, usually not branched 
