ON STATIC E CAROLINIAN A. 
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ART. XV.— AN INAUGURAL ESSAY ON STATIC E CAROLI- 
NIANA, WITH A CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ROOT OF 
THIS PLANT. By Edward Parrish; 
{Presented to the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy.) 
This plant appears in the secondary list of the United States 
Pharmacopoeia, under the officinal name of Statice. 
The Genus Statice belongs to the class Pentandria, and 
order Pentagynia, and to the natural order Plumbagineae of 
Jussieu. 
Its generic characters are thus stated: Calyx one-leaved, 
plaited and scariose. Petals five; seed one, superior. — Nut- 
tall 
A difference of opinion exists among botanists, as to whe- 
ther the Statice Caroliniana is a distinct species, or a mere 
variety of the Statice limonium of Europe, from which it is 
distinguished chiefly by its smaller flowers and plain or flat 
leaves. From the Statice Gmelini, an Asiatic species, it is 
said to differ still less in its general form. Walter, Pursh, 
Bigelow and others, maintain that it is entitled to the rank of 
a separate species, while Nuttall, Torry, and some others, in- 
cline to the opposite view. 
This plant in common language, is known as Marsh Rose- 
mary, or Sea Lavender ; it has a perennial root, sending up 
annually tufts of leaves, which are narrow, obovate, entire, 
obtuse, mucronate, smooth, and supported on long slender 
footstalks. They differ, as before stated, from the leaves of 
the Statice limonium in being perfectly flat on the margin, 
while the latter are undulated. The flower stem is round, 
smooth, about a foot in length, and near its summit sends off 
numerous alternate branches which terminate in spikes, form- 
ing altogether a loose panicle. 
The flowers are small, bluish-purple, erect, upon one side 
only of the common peduncle, with a mucronate scaly bract 
