SEA LAVENDER 



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The plant is known as Sea Lavender, Lavender Thrift. A former 

 name, Statice (now applied to Thrift), was given to Sea Lavender for 

 the supposed property it possessed of stopping diarrhoea. 



ESSENTIAL SPECIFIC CHARACTERS: 



196. Limonium vulgare, Mill. Flowering stem a scape, leaves 

 radical, oblong, petiolate, mucronate, I -ribbed, flowers purple, in a 

 secund panicle in dense patent spikes, with outer bract rounded on 

 back, scentless, flower-stalk angular, leafless, branched. 



