S T A T I C E Armeria.
!Thrift.
P E N T A N D R I A Penlagynia.
G en. Char. Cal. of one leaf, entire, plaited, filmy.
Petals five. Seed fingle.
Spec. C har. Stalk Ample, bearing a round head of
flowers. Leaves linear.
S y n . Statice Armeria. Linn. Sp. P l . $94. Hudf. FI.
An. 132. With. B o t .A r r . 326. Relb. Cant. 129.
Light/. Scot. 173.
S. montana minor. R a n Syn. 203.
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X HE moll humble and moll lofty of plants,” fays Mr.
Lightfoot; “ it grows frequently upon the fea-lhores, and upon
the fummits of the highell mountains.” Neither is it lefs
common in England and Wales than in Scotland, in both kinds
Of lituations. We have examined it from both, and found no
difference between the fpecimens. Its favourite maritime foil i?
of the muddy kind. The conllitution of this plant indeed feems
pf a very accommodating nature, for it grows equally well in
any garden, even in the fmoke of London, and is much ufed for
edgings. From its readinefs to thrive in any fituation, the
Englifli name has probably been given. It flowers about July
and Auguft.
Root perennial, woody, bearing many thick tufts of lax, li|
near, channelled, fmooth, entire leaves. Stalks varying much
in height, round, naked, each terminated by a globular head
of feveral flowers, encompaffed with a many-leaved involu-
crum, whofe bafe is attached to a Angular cylindrical membranous
Iheath, about an inch long, which invefts the top of the
flalk, its lower end being loofe and lacerated, fo that it feems
to have been torn off from the root, and carried up with the
young growing ftalk. Calyx fmall, erect. Petals rofe-colaured.
Crown of the feed fringed.