STATICE LATIFO'LIA. 
BROAD-LEAVED SEA LAVENDER. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. 
, Natural Order. 
PLUMBAGINACEjE. 
Native of 
Height. 
j Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Siberia. 
1 foot. 
1 May, July. 
Perennial. 
in 1788. 
No. .599. 
The generic name, Statice, is supposed to' have 
been derived from the Greek statizo, to stop, on 
account of the astringent quality of the plant to 
which the name was originally given. 
This genus, as established by Linneus, included 
the various species of Thrift, so well known in our 
gardens, but these have been separated by Willde- 
now, and form a new one under the name Armeria. 
An individual flower of the Statice latifolia is a 
very unimportant production, if considered merely 
with respect to its property of producing gaiety in 
the parterre. It is on the multitude of these little 
gems, arranged as we find them in panicles, so dis- 
tributed and spread,^ perhaps two feet wide, that 
their attraction depends. They produce one entire 
bush of softest azure tint, without an intruding leaf 
to break its harmony. The plant may be said to 
stand up a phantom in a grosser community. It 
increases but slowly, and becomes much the more 
handsome by remaining three or four years undis- 
turbed. A division of its roots may be made in 
spring, when increase is required. It will grow in 
any loamy soil. 
