Pl.ex.cor . 19. LITTORELLIDEaE. 51. Littorel. 295 
flaccid ; before aestivation induplicate ; anthers 2-celled, 
opening longitudinally ; rudiment of the pistill minute.— 
Fem. Calyx none ; bracleec 3 ; corolla urceolate, undivided,, 
contracted at the mouth, slightly toothed; stamens 0; ovary 
1-celled, 1 -seeded; ovule upright; style 1, capillary, very 
long; stigma hispid, not cut; pyxidium 1 -seeded. — Herb 
stemless; leaves linear, rushlike, dilated at bottom, rather 
sheathing; male flower peduncled, solitary; peduncle with 
a pellucid, reticulated, membranaceous bractea about the 
middle ; female flowers 2 or 3, radical, sessile. 
51. LITTORELLA. Linnaeus. Shore-iveed. 
No other genus in this family. 
Litlorella lacustris. Lake shore-weed . 
Plantago palustris gramineo folio monanihos, Parisiensis, Raii Syn. 
11 . 
Plantago nniflora, Lin. S. P. 167. 
Littorella lacustris, Lin. Mant. 295. 
Inundated sandy places; perennial; June. 
Root fusiform ; leaves bald, convex beneath; flowers up- 
right, white; style nearly as long as the scape. 
/3. hirsuta. Leaves hairy. 
Fam. III. 20. STATXCINiE. HofFmansegg and Link. 
Plumbaginum pars. Jussieu. 
Perigonium double, persisting; calyx 1 -leafed, tubular, 
not cut, plaited, persisting ; corolla 5-petaled, equal ; sta- 
mens 5, adnate to the claw of the petals; ovary 1, free, 
1-seeded ; ovule upright; placentarium apicular ; placenta 
threadlike, bent; styles 5 ; stigmata 5; utriculus membra- 
naceous; spermodermis single, coriaceous; perisperm fa- 
rinaceous ; corculum central, compressed, erect, nearly as 
long as the seed; plumula inconspicuous ; radicle below. — 
Herbaceous or under-shrubby ; leaves simple, not cut, al- 
ternate or crowded, radical ; rather sheathing at bottom ; 
flowers hermaphrodite, capitate or spiked. 
Flowers capitate, involucrated ; 
leaves radical Statice. 52. 
Flowers sessile, spread ; 
leaves spread Limoni um. 53, 
