ARME'RIA CEPHALO'TES. 
LARGE-HEADED THRIFT. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
PLUMB AG IN ACE 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Portugal. 
2 feet. 
April. 
Perennial. 
in 1775. 
No. 1144. 
Armeria is a name used by our old writers, and 
by some of them applied, as at present, to the com- 
mon Thrift of our sea coast ; but its meaning is by 
no means apjmrent. 
This plant, which we met with in the Birming- 
ham Horticultural Society’s Garden, under the 
name of Statice pseudo-armeria, has lately been 
re-introduced, and its large globular heads of rose- 
coloured flowers greatly admired. Miller calls it 
a Statice, and mentions it as having been culti- 
vated in English gardens in his time, but was 
destroyed by the severe frost of 1740. Professor 
Martyn states that it was again brought to England 
by Jacquin, in 1775. It would appear to have 
been again lost to our collections, and was then 
sent from France, in 1843, under different names, 
as a newly-discovered subject. 
This Armeria, for its old name should be dis- 
continued, has a handsome appearance in the bor- 
ders, and some of its flowers vary considerably in 
colour, being darker than our representation of it. 
It will bear mild winters out of doors, but a single 
plant should have protection. 
