SEA-SIDE PLANTS. 



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garden, and even the smoke of London seems 

 scarcely to hurt its hardy little flowers. Though 

 generally pink, yet in Cornwall it is often of a pure 

 white colour. Its roots, cut in slices and boiled in 

 milk, are said by Neill to have been formerly 

 highly valued in the Orkneys as a cure for pul- 

 monary consumption. 



The Sea Lavender, or Lavender Thrift (Statice 

 limonium), though a flower quite unlike, in general 

 appearance, to the sea gillyflower, belongs to the 

 same genus of plants ; but this never grows on the 



SPIKED THRIFT (Statice spathulato), AND COMMON THRIFT (Statice 

 armeria). 



