Statice. | LIX. PLUMBAGINEZ. 365 
On dry, rocky, maritime banks, or more rarely in sands, on the shores 
of western Europe, penetrating also far along the Mediterranean. In 
Britain, it extends up the west coast to Wigtonshire, but not beyond 
Lincolnshire on the east coast, and occurs in Ireland. 7. summer. 
3. S. reticulata, Linn. (fig. 823). Matted Statice.—This is a still 
smaller plant than the last, with leaves often not more than 6 lines long ; 
the lower branches of the panicle numerous, very much branched, and 
usually without flowers, whilst the central ones bear numerous short spikes 
of small flowers, with the bracts white and scarious nearly from the base, 
S. bellidifolia, Gouan. 
In maritime sands, all round the Mediterranean and in western Asia, 
extending more sparingly up the west coast of France. In Britain, only in 
the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridge. £7. summer. 
Il. ARMERIA. THRIFT. 
Flowers in a terminal, globular head, intermixed with scarious scales, 
of which the outer ones form a kind of involucre, and the two outermost of 
all are lengthened below their insertion into appendages forming a sheath 
round the: upper part of the peduncle. Calyx usually drier and more 
scarious than in Statice, the petals scarcely united at their very base, and 
the styles hairy in the lower part. 
A genus of very few species, separated from Statice chiefly on account of 
their inflorescence, which gives them a peculiar habit. 
Leaves narrow-linear, l-nerved. Teeth of the calyx short . 1, A. vulgaris. 
Leaves a eee, 3- or 5-nerved. eee e the ne long 
and fine : . . . . 2. A, plantaginea. 
1, 4. vulgaris, Willd. (fig. 824). Common Thrift.—The stock forms 
perennial tufts, with numerous radical leaves, all narrow-linear, entire, with 
a single prominent midrib. Flowering stems simple and leafless, glabrous 
or shortly downy, 3 or 4 inches to twice that height, each bearing a globular 
- head of pink or sometimes white flowers; the petal-like border of the 
calyx crowned by 5 very short, slender teeth. 
On muddy or sandy sea-shores, and on maritime rocks, in the northern 
hemisphere, from the Arctic regions to near the tropics, reappearing in the 
southern hemisphere beyond the tropics, and also at considerable elevations 
in the high mountain-chains of Europe and Asia. Abundant on our 
British coasts and on the tops of some of the Scotch mountains. 7. 
summer. 
2, A. plantaginea, Willd. (fig. 825). Plantain Thrift.—Very near 
the last, and perhaps one of its numerous forms, but the leaves are much 
broader, usually marked with 3 or 5 parallel nerves, the flower-stalk is 
often a foot high or more, and the slender teeth of the calyx are much 
longer than in A. vulgaris. 
On sandy heaths and wastes, in western Europe, extending northward 
to the English Channel and eastward to the Rhine. In our Flora only 
in Jersey. Fl. summer. 
