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Statice sin-uata. Purple-cup’t Statice, 
or Thrift. 
Cl a/s and Order. 
Pentandria Pentagynia. 
Generic Character. 
Cal. i-phyllus, integer, plicatus, fcariofus. Petala 5. Sem. 1- 
fuperum. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
STATICE finuata caule herbaceo, folws radicalibus alterna- 
tim pinnato-finuatis : caulinis ternis triquetris lu- 
bulatis decurrentibus. Linn. Syfi. Vegeiab. p. 301. 
LIMONIUM peregrinum foliis afplenii. Bauh. Pin. 192. 
LIMONIUM Rauwolfii. Marfh Buglofie. Parkin/. Parad. 
p. 250. 
That this lingular fpecies of Statice was long fince an inha- 
bitant of our gardens, appears from Parkinson’, who in his 
Garden of Plea/ant Flowers, gives an accurate description of it, 
accompanied with an expreffive figure ; fince his time it ap- 
pears to have been confined to few gardens : the nurferymen 
have lately confidered it as a newly-introduced fpecies, and 
fold it accordingly. 
It is one of thofe few plants whofe calyx is of a more 
beautiful colour than the corolla (and which it does not lofe 
in drying) ; it therefore affords an excellent example of the 
calyx coloraltis , as alfo of / cario/us , it being* Sonorous to the touch. 
Being a native of Sicily, Palefline, and Africa, it is of 
courfe liable to be killed with us in fevere feafons, the com- 
mon praflice is therefore to treat it as a green-houfe plant, 
and indeed it appears to the greateft advantage in a pot ; it is 
much difpofea to throw up new flowering Items ; hence, by 
having feveral pots of it, fome plants will be in blotTom 
throughout the fummer ; the dried flowers are a pretty orna- 
ment for the mantle-piece in winter. 
Though a kind of biennial, it is often increafed by parting 
its roots, but more advantageoufly by feed; the latter, how- 
ever, are but fparingly produced with us, probably for the 
want, as Parkinson expreffes it, * r of fuflicient hcate of the 
Sunne.” 
