. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. PLUMBAGINACEAE. calyx, rarely a dehiscent capsule. Seed solitary; testa membranous; endosperm mealy, or none; embryo straight; cotyledons entire. About 10 genera and 350 species, of Inflorescence cymose-paniculate ; flowers ii Flowers in a dense termi head. ide geographic di one-sided spikes. ibution, mostly in saline situations. 1. Limonium. 2. Statice. I. LIMONIUM [
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. PLUMBAGINACEAE. calyx, rarely a dehiscent capsule. Seed solitary; testa membranous; endosperm mealy, or none; embryo straight; cotyledons entire. About 10 genera and 350 species, of Inflorescence cymose-paniculate ; flowers ii Flowers in a dense termi head. ide geographic di one-sided spikes. ibution, mostly in saline situations. 1. Limonium. 2. Statice. I. LIMONIUM [Tourn.] Mill. Card. Diet. Abr. Ed. 4. 1754. [Statice VVilld. Sp. PL i: 1552. 1798.] Herbs, mostly with flat basal leaves, and numerous very small flowers cymose-paniculate on the branches of bracted scapes, in 1-3-flovvered bracteolate clusters, forming one-sided spikes. Calyx campanulate or tubular, the limb scarious, 5-toothed, the tube usually lo-ribbed. Petals S, clawed. Stamens adnate to the bases of the petals. Styles mostly 5, separate in our species, stigmatic along the inner side. Fruit a utricle. [Ancient name of the wild beet.] About 120 species. Besides the following. 5 others occur in the southern and western parts of the United States. Type species: Statice Limonhun L. I. Limonium carolinianum (Walt.) Britton. Sea or Sea-side Lavender. Marsh Rosemary. Canker-root. Fig. 3303. Statice caroliniana Walt. FI. Car. 118. 1788. S. Limonium var. carolinianum A. Gray, Man. Ed. z, 270. 1856. L. carolinianum Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 255. 1894. Glabrous, fleshy, root thick, fusiform or branched, astrin- gent; scape terete, striate, slender, paniculately branched above, 6-2° high. Leaves oblanceolate, obtuse or acutish and subulate-tipped at the apex, narrowed into margined petioles, entire, or slightly undulate, 3'-lo' long, ^'-li' wide, shorter than the scapes, the midvein prominent, the lateral veins very obscure; flowers erect, solitary or 2 or 3 together in the sessil
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