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PLUMBAGINACEAE 
1. D. hendersoni Gray. Sailor’s Caps. Mosquito Bills. Stem 2 to 
3 dm. high; leaves elliptic, the margins often crisped; umbels 3 to 13- 
flowered; the pedicels 1.2 to 8.4 cm. long: parts of the flowers sometimes 
in 4s; petals purple with a transverse yellow band at base which is edged 
above by white and bounded below by a black-purple area.—Mountains 
and low hills. 
2. D. patulum Greene. Shooting Star. Similar to no. 1; 7 to 9.6 cm. 
high; corolla white or pale cream-color.—Alkaline plains of the Sacra¬ 
mento and San Joaquin. 
3. D. clevelandi Greene. Stems 2.8 to 5.7 dm. high; corolla bright 
purple with a yellow base and some dark purple spots next the stamens.— 
S. Cal. 
PLUMBAGINACEAE. THRIFT FAMILY 
Maritime herbs. 'Stems scapose, naked, commonly hard or coriaceous, 
with the leaves in a basal tuft. Flowers regular, perfect, 5-merous 
throughout. Calyx tubular or funnel-form, plaited. Petals with long 
claws barely united into a ring at base or distinct. Stamens 5, opposite 
the petals, adnate to the base of the claw. Ovary superior, 1-celled; 
ovule 1; styles 5. Fruit a utricle or achene, borne in the base of the per¬ 
sistent calyx.—Species about 325, all continents. 
Leaves narrowly linear; scapes terminating in a globose head of flowers. 
1. Statice. 
Leaves broad; scapes terminating in a panicle.2. Limonium. 
1. STATICE L. Thrift 
Leaves narrowly linear, sedge-like, in a close tuft. Heads composed 
of numerous crowded clusters. Calyx scarious. Styles united at the very 
base. (Greek statike, astringent.) 
1. S. arctica Blake var. californica Blake. Sea-Pink. Scapes 1.6 to 
4.8 dm. high, few or solitary; leaves involute-channeled, 1 to 2 dm. long; 
flowers dull pink or flesh-color; calyx-tube 10-nerved, the nerves densely 
hispid.—Seabeaches or sandy fields along the ocean from Monterey Co. 
to Del Norte Co. 
2. LIMONIUM Hill. Marsh Rosemary 
Leaves broad, fleshy. Flowers secund, in short spikes or clusters ter¬ 
minating the many branchlets of a branching scape. Calyx hairy on the 
angles below. Styles wholly distinct. (Greek leimon, meadow.) 
i. L. californicum Hel. Scapes 2.2 to 4.3 dm. high, loosely panicu¬ 
late; leaves obovate- to oblong-spatulate, obtuse or sometimes retuse, 
tapering into a rather long petiole, 1 to 2.2 dm. long; flowers violet- 
purple; petals oblong, narrowed towards the base, 4 to 5 mm. long.— 
Salt marshes and seabeaches along the coast. 
EBENACEAE. EBONY FAMILY 
Deciduous trees or shrubs. Flowers regular. Calyx and corolla 3 to 
7-lobed, usually 4-lobed. Stamens usually 8 to 16. Ovary superior, 4 to 
12-celled; styles 2 to 6. Fruit a large berry, bearing the enlarged calyx at 
the base.—Species 250,*chiefly tropical. 
