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STATICE Fortuni. 
Mr. Fortune’s Sea-Lavender. 
PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
a Nat. ord. PLUMBAGINACE®, or LEADWORTS, Veg. Kingdom, p. 640. 
ined. 
STATICE. Botanical Register, A 17. t. 1450. 
S. Fortunii; folis glaucescentibus rosulatis oblongis basi trinerviis nunc 
apiculatis nunc apice rotundatis in petiolum latum angustatis, scapo rigido 
erecto paniculato, ramis angulatis brachiatis glabris rugosis omnibus 
floridis et sursum curvis ideoque secundis, glomerulis laxé aggregatis 
ipsisque laxis, bracteis 2-floris ovatis obtusis late membranaceo-margi- 
naris, calycis costis pilosis, petalis liberis emarginatis luteis, ovario acuté 
quinquangulari. 
A yellow flowered Sea-Lavender is a rarity. This, which 
is a very interesting species, is a perennial, and will probably 
prove quite hardy. Its seeds were sent from China by Mr. 
Fortune in 1844, and were said to have been gathered at a 
place called Chin Chin, ** growing in sandy soil near the sea.” 
The latter circumstance will probably enable us hereafter 
to cultivate it better; for Mr. Fortune’s wild plants are not 
more than a foot high, while those which have flowered in 
the garden of the Horticultural Society, have been twice or 
thrice as large, or even more. They had been too tenderly 
treated. This is important, because it is easy to conceive 
that the beauty of a plant having many small flowers depends 
much upon their compactness. 
In a frame or greenhouse it flowers freely from July to 
October, and is easily increased either by dividing the old 
plants in autumn, or early in spring, or by seeds, which 
should be sown about March, by which means the young 
plants flower the same season; if sown later, they will not 
flower before the following season. 
. In our gardens we have nothing like this. There is, 
however, in books, a Statice aurea, of which Ammann gives 
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