STATICE PSEUDO- ARMARIA. 
(False Thrift.) 
Class. 
Order. 
PENTANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA, 
Natural Order. 
PLUMB AGIN ACE JS. 
Generic Character.— Calyx monosepalous, undivi- 
ded, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped, five-cleft. 
Filaments awl-shaped, shorter than the petals, and 
attached to their claws. Anthers incumbent. Styles 
spreading. Stigma acute. Capsule solitary, somewhat 
cylindrical, one-celled, and one-valved, with five points, 
clothed with the permanent calyx, and surmounted by 
its filmy border. Seeds solitary. 
Specific Character.— Plant an herbaceous perennial. 
Leaves obovate, tapering downwards into bordered foot- 
stalks. Scape round, eighteen inches high. Flowers 
collected into dense globular heads, rose-coloured. 
Every one acquainted with flowers knows the common Thrift, which grows 
so abundantly on our marshy sea-shores ; and the beauty and desirable properties 
of which have rendered it a favourite so generally esteemed and so extensively 
grown, that few gardens— from the ample grounds which surround the palace of 
the wealthy, to the humble plot before the door of the cottager— are unadorned 
with its simple and lasting flowers. 
The species we now lay before our readers has many traits of a kindred 
character. Like it, the flowers are collected and arranged together in a dense and 
somewhat globular head, supported on a scape which raises and shows them 
prominently above the foliage. They also possess the same pleasing colour and 
enduring nature, continuing unchanged in beauty for a long time. But it is only 
in some of the varieties of S. armeria that the colour of the present is equalled, 
or even approached, for we find many with very pale flowers ; and none of 
them under any circumstances rival it in the magnitude of the flowers. In fact, 
the plant is altogether of a much larger size, and superior character. The foliage, 
too, of S. armeria is very narrow, and so thickly arranged that it has become 
eminent as a desirable plant for border edgings. But a different character is 
exhibited in the plant before us, and we are not aware of any other species of the 
capitate flowering section of the genus that has leaves of equal breadth. 
As an ornamental plant for the greenhouse or drawing-room, it has considerable 
merit, being easily grown, and always flowering with freedom. And there is little 
doubt but it will also admit of being gently forced into early bloom ; if attempted, 
