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plant, growing on Cambrian and Silurian and other rocks, and is also 

 a sand-loving plant growing on a sand soil. 



Like Sea Lavender it is attacked by a fungus, Uroniyccs linwnii. 



A Thysanopterous insect, Pklosothrips Staticcs. and three moths, 

 a Clearwing, Sesia musciformis, Scricoris littoralis, Gclcchia bizclla, 

 feed upon Thrift. 



Statice, Dalechamps, is from the Greek name, denoting astringency, 

 and the second Latin name refers to its habitat. 



Attractive as Thrift is, it is called Arby, Cliff-rose, Cushion, Lady's 



THRIFT (Staticc maritima, Mill.) 



or Sea Cushion, Cushion-pink, Marsh or Sea Daisy, Sea Gilliflower, 

 Sea Grass, Lady's Pincushion, Pink, French Pink, Scawfell Pink, Sea 

 Pink, Ouishion, Rock Rose, Sea Turf, Thrift. As to the name Sea 

 Daisy, Scrope says: "Even the hills afford good pasture, and are 

 scattered over with the Sea Daisy and other plants ". Names com- 

 pounded with cushion all refer to the tufted habit of the plant. 



Thrift is astringent, hence its reputed use. Hut the principal value 

 of Thrift lies in its adaptation to the garden, where it is grown as an 

 edging plant, and is very prolific. 



ESSENTIAL SPECIFIC CHARACTERS: 



197. Staticc maritiina. Mill. Flowering stem a scape, leaves 

 radical, tufted, oblong, mucronate, fleshy, linear, veined, flowers rose, in 

 round heads, with downy scapes, and scarious involucre, with scaly bracts. 



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