. 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. '753- 2. STATICE [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 274. [.•\ Willd. Enum. m. 1809.] Tufted acaulescent fleshy herbs, with slender mostly naked scapes, basal persistent rosu- late narrow leaves with no differentiation into blade and petiole, and rather small short- pedicelled or sessile flowers, in dense terminal glomerate heads, subtended by scarious bracts and bractlets, th
. 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. '753- 2. STATICE [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 274. [.•\ Willd. Enum. m. 1809.] Tufted acaulescent fleshy herbs, with slender mostly naked scapes, basal persistent rosu- late narrow leaves with no differentiation into blade and petiole, and rather small short- pedicelled or sessile flowers, in dense terminal glomerate heads, subtended by scarious bracts and bractlets, the lower bracts forming a kind of involucre to the head, the two lowest reflexed and more or less united into a sheath. Calyx funnelform, lo-ribbed, 5-toothed, obHque at the base or decurrent on the pedicel, scarious. Petals 5, distinct, or more or less coherent. Filaments adnate to the bases of the petals. Styles united at the base, pubescent below the middle, longitudinally stigmatic above. Utricle 5-pointed at the summit, rarely dehiscent. [Greek, standing.] About 20 species, natives of Europe, north Africa, western Asia, northern North America and southern South America. The following typical species is the only one known in North America. I. Statice Armeria L. Thrift. Sea Pink. Ladies' Cushion. Fig. 3304. Static Armeria L. Sp. PI. 274. i733. Armeria vulgaris Willd. Enum. 333. 1809. Scape glabrous or somewhat pubescent, 4'-l8' high. Leaves narrowly linear, acute or obtuse, flatfish, obscurely l-nerved, entire, numerous in a basal tuft, l'-3' long, ¥'-iV wide; bracts scarious and obtuse, the 2 lower ones forming a sheath 3"-io" long; head of flowers 4'-l' in diameter; calyx-base decurrent on the very short pedicel, pubescent at least on the stronger nerves; corolla pink, purple or white, 2"-3" broad; petals obtuse or cuspidate. Along the sea-coast and or to Alaska, south on the Pa( Europe, northern Asia, and ; Strait of Magellan. Summe gilliflower. Sea-
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