growing a foot or two high, near Narbonne, and elsewhere 
in the basin of the Mediterranean ; S. spicata, with its dense 
cylindrical heads of small white flowers, is one of the most 
curious plants found by Colonel Chesney in his expedition to 
the Euphrates, and inhabits the shores of the Caspian; S. 
scabra is one of the most interesting of Cape herbaceous plants; 
and finally Mount Taurus and the Bithynian Olympus are 
red with the brilliant flowers of the curious little Statices 
Echinus and acerosa. Of what other European genus, not 
cultivated, could so much be said ? and the subject is by no 
means exhausted. 
The present species is a shrub well adapted for planting 
in the bed or borders of a conservatory, growing three or 
four feet high, in an equal mixture of loam and peat 
and flowering from April to June. It strikes freely from 
cuttings of the young shoots, whenever such can be obtained. 
It is best treated as an indoor plant even in summer, as 
it is injured by a few degrees of frost in winter. 
