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STATICE eximia. 
Large Pink Sea Lavender. 
PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. PLUMBAGINACEE. (Leapworts, Vegetable Kingdom, 
p. 640.) 
STATICE, L. 
S. eximia; foliis radicalibus oblongis obovatisve in petiolum attenuatis (viri- 
dibus) cartilagineo-marginatis ex apice mucronatis, scapo aphyllo erecto 
apice ramoso ramisque simplicibus teretibus pubescentibus, squamis 
chartaceis mucronatis, fasciculis quadrifloris densissime congestis 
secundis bracteis floribus sublongioribus scarioso-marginatis cinctis, 
bractea exteriore ovata mucronata altera tricuspidata obcordata, intimis 
scariosis oblongis mucronatis, calycis limbo quinque-angulato angulis 
(lobis) acutis.— Fischer & Meyer in Enumeratio Plant. Schrenck, p. 13. 
Karelin § Kirilow in Act. Mosq. 1842, p. 470. 
Radix perennis. Folia omnia radicalia, illis S. scoparie vel Gmelini 
similia, viridia, margine angusto albo crispato cincta, obtusiuscula, ex apice 
mucronata, mucrone recurvato. Scapus sesqui-bipedalis, squamis instructus 
paucis amplexantibus chartaceis margine scarioso mediocri cinctis et mucrone 
deciduo terminatis ; rami semper indivisi, apice florum fasciculis in formam 
ovatam congestis, secundis, bracteis magnis latis involucratis ornati. Calycis 
tubus pubescens, limbus dilatatus subquinquelobus vel potius quinqueangularis, 
angulis (lobis) acuminatis sepe crenulatis, sinubus rotundatis, lobis inter- 
calaribus nullis.— Fisch. & Meyer, l. c. 
This is a hardy perennial, growing from one to two feet 
high, if planted in an equal mixture of sandy loam and peat. 
It may be increased by dividing the old plant when large 
enough and in a dormant state, but the best means of propa- 
gation is by seed ; seedlings, however, will not blossom before 
the second season. It flowers from July to September. 
Raised in the garden of the Horticultural Society from 
seeds received from Dr. Fischer in 1844, and said to have 
been ** collected by Dr. Schrenk on the Chinese limits in the 
south of Songaria." Upon turning to the account of Schrenk's 
plants, published by Drs. Fischer and Meyer, we find that its 
native place is the plains near the mountains of ** Karatan 
and Labassy." Karelin and Kirilow also found it “in open 
