. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 7i8 PLUMBAGINACEAE. Vol. II. calyx, rarely a dehiscent capsule. Seed solitary; testa membranous; endosperm mealy, or none; embryo straight; cotyledons entire. About 10 genera and 350 species, of wide geographic distribution, mostly in saline situations. Inflorescence cymose-paniculate ; flowers in one-sided spikes. i. Limonium. Flowers in a dense terminal head,
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 7i8 PLUMBAGINACEAE. Vol. II. calyx, rarely a dehiscent capsule. Seed solitary; testa membranous; endosperm mealy, or none; embryo straight; cotyledons entire. About 10 genera and 350 species, of wide geographic distribution, mostly in saline situations. Inflorescence cymose-paniculate ; flowers in one-sided spikes. i. Limonium. Flowers in a dense terminal head, 2, Statice. I. LIMONIUM [Tourn.] Mill. Card. Diet. Abr. Ed. 4. 1754. [Statice Willd. Sp. PI. 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-flowered bracteolate clusters, forming one-sided spikes. Calyx campanulate or tubular, the limb scarious, 5-toothed, the tube usually lo-ribbed. Petals 5, clawed. Stamens adnate to the bases of the petals. Styles mostly S, separate in our species, stigmatic along the inner side. Fruit a utricle. [Ancient name of the wild beet.] About 120 species. Besides the following, s others occur in the southern and western parts of the United States. Type species : Statice Limonium L. I. Limonium carolinianum (Walt.) Britton. Sea or Sea-side Lavender. Marsh Rosemary. Canker-root. Fig. 3303. Statice caroliniana Walt. Fl. Car. ii8. 1788. S. Limonium var. carolinianum A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 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, 5'-2° high. Leaves oblanceolate, obtuse or acutish and subulate-tipped at the apex, narrowed into margined petioles, entire, or slightly undulate, 3'-io' long, ¥-i¥ wide, shorter than the scapes, the midvein prominent, the lateral veins very obscure; flowers erect, solitary or 2
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