SEA-HEATH FAMILY 
[ORDER XI. FRANKENIACE^E] 
HIS is a very small family, consisting of one genus only, which has not many species. They 
are shrubby prostrate herbs or undershrubs, and are found on the sea-coasts in most of 
the temperate and warmer parts of the world, though they are not recorded for North America. 
SEA-HEATH. (FRANKENIA, LINN.) — The only genus, as described on plate 20, illustrating 
the Smooth Sea-Heath. 
Smooth Sea-Heath. (Frankenia Isevis, Linn.)— The only British species, with bright 
pink flowers, the number of petals varying on the same plant, the stamens 6, orange-yellow, the 
style divided into 3 lobes, the stems wiry and reddish, and the small heath-like leaves arranged in 
a circle round each joint. [Plate 20. 
Very rare. Salt marshes on the south-east coasts of England. July — August. Perennial. 
