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STATICE pectinata. 



Comb-flowered Sea Lavender. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 

 Nat. ord. Plumbaginace^. 

 STATICE. Botanical Register, vol. \7 . fol. 1450. 



§. Caule ascendente folioso. 



S. pectinata ; caule ascendente folioso triqiietro foliisque obovatis longe 

 petiolatis setaceo-apiculatis lepidotis, paniculse ramis omnibus fertilibus, 

 spiculis densissimis distantibus compressis secundis, corollis calyce 

 parum longioribus. 



S. pectinata. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. I. 385. Hornemamiy hort. hafn. suppl. 

 p. 37. 

 Caulis debilis, ascendens, ramosus, ad articulos dense foliatus. Folia 



ohovata, apice I'otvndata, mucrone setaceo apiculata, in petiolum angustum 



attenuata, squamulis pallidis prcesertim cis apicem lepidota. Flores parvi, 



pallide 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 I78O. 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 Teneriife, and from 

 a plant raised from their seeds the figure now, for the first 

 time given, was made in 18S2, 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 

 November, 1840. z 



