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STATICE pectinata. 
Comb-flowered Sea Lavender. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. PLUMBAGINACEX. 
STATICE. Botanical Register, vol. 17. fol. 1450. 
$. Caule ascendente folioso. 
S. pectinata; caule ascendente folioso triquetro foliisque obovatis longè 
petiolatis setaceo-apiculatis lepidotis, paniculæ ramis omnibus fertilibus, 
spiculis densissimis distantibus compressis secundis, corollis calyce 
parúm longioribus. 
S. pectinata. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed.1. 1. 385. Hornemann, hort. hafn. suppl. 
p: 37. 
Caulis debilis, ascendens, ramosus, ad articulos densè foliatus. Folia 
obovata, apice rotundata, mucrone setaceo apiculata, in petiolum angustum 
attenuata, squamulis pallidis presertim cis apicem lepidota. Flores parvi, 
pallidè violacei. 
This rare species was originally found by Masson in the 
Canaries, and by him introduced into the Royal Botanic 
Garden, Kew, in the year 1780. One of his wild specimens 
given to the late Mr. James Donn of Cambridge is now before 
me. It was afterwards gathered in the same islands by the 
ill-fated Christian Smith, and from his seeds raised in the 
Botanic Garden, Copenhagen. For the third time it was 
found by Messrs. Webb and Barthellot in Teneriffe, and from 
a plant raised from their seeds the figure now, for the first 
time given, was made in 1832, specimens having at that time 
been sent me by Mr. Young of the Milford Nursery. 
It forms one of the caulescent division of this difficult 
genus, and is readily recognized by its nearly triangular stem, 
with long-stalked obovate leaves always tipped with a conspi- 
cuous weak bristle. 
It is a pretty, half-hardy or greenhouse perennial ; but, 
like many of the other species it flowers so very freely that 
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