THKIFT. 



Armeria maritima. Nat. Ord., 

 Plumbag'macccB. 



.HEREVEE we get a piece of 

 muddy sea-shore, there we may 

 feel little doubt of finding 

 any quantity of the thrift, 

 or sea-pink. By far the best 

 place to look for it is where 

 some river, after many a devi- 

 ous curve through the lowlands, 

 brings its tribute of muddy 

 water to the clear and bright 

 salt water of our encircling sea. 

 On the shores of such a river 

 large banks of sediment are 

 formed, often creating salt 

 marshes for some distance in- 

 land, into which at high tide 

 the sea penetrates by many a winding channel. We 

 remember to have seen such spots on the Sussex Adur, 

 the mouth of the Ribble, in Lancashire, and where the 

 sluggish Axe and Parret bear in the west their contributions 

 of mud and water to the estuary of the Severn ; and in all 

 these river deposits the ground was thickly covered with 

 the verdure of the thrift so covered, indeed, that at a little 

 distance the effect was that of a meadow by the water-side. 

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