Burgado, which seem as if broken off from the coast of 
Teneriffe by some violent convulsion of nature, carrying 
with them on their summits a little earth, that this rare plant 
is found, surrounded on every side by the ocean, (see Webb 
and Berthellot, vues phytostatiques, t. 8. f. 3.) and only a few 
yards removed from its surface. 
The temperature of the climate in which it grows is 
described as varying between 60° and 86° Fahr., the air 
being cooled by breezes from N.N.W. and E.N.E.; the sky 
is seldom overcast, there is little rain, except from November 
to January, when it falls in heavy showers; the soil is com- 
posed of volcanic tufa, basalt, scoria, and sheets of lava in a 
state of decomposition. But although the quantity of rain 
which falls is small, the air of the islets inhabited by Statice 
arborea must be constantly moist, in consequence of evapo- 
ration from the surface of the sea. 
If I were asked by a person desirous to distinguish him- 
self as a cultivator of beautiful and uncommon plants, to 
name some genus, little known, rich in species, with flowers 
of brilliant and permanent colours, with a foliage unlike the 
** quotidiane forme” of every day plants, and at the same 
time which would require great skill in the management, I 
should certainly name Statice; and if a Botanist were to 
make a similar enquiry, his object being to investigate the 
distinctions of a curious genus, whose species are in great 
need of illustration, the answer would still be Statice. No 
one can have walked along the skirts of a salt marsh in 
England, occupied by our native ‘‘ Sea Lavender," without 
being struck with the beauty of its flat panicles of gay blue 
flowers, and yet the Statice Limonium is one of the least 
attractive of the genus; it is upon the exotic species that 
the attention of the Horticulturist should be fixed; a short 
account of a few of the less known kinds will make this 
more evident. S. tubiflora, a dwarf plant found near Alexan- 
dria, bears multitudes of round heads of large lilac flowers ; 
S. egyptiaca, another dwarf plant found in the isthmus of 
Suez and in other parts of Egypt, has large pallid blossoms ; 
S. sinuata, from Palestine, has when well grown blue flowers 
as large as sixpences ; S. emarginata is a beautiful little plant 
from the cliffs of Gibraltar; S. monopetala is a showy species, 
