The VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 
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GENUS I. 
THRIFT. 
S T A T I C E. 
Chara&er of the Genus. 
The Head is globular, and compofed of many Flowers. 
The general Cup is til’d, with broad Scales ; the Flower 
is compofed of five Petals; and the feparate Cup is mem- 
branaceous toward the Rim. 
Plate 13. o .abed. 
i. LINEAR THRIFT. 
Plate 13. Fig. 1. 
Charafter of the Species. Statice Armeria. 
The Leaves are linear; the Stalk is round, and fupports only 
one Head. 
Fig. 1 . a b. 
This is a perennial, native of our fea coafts in many places ; a very 
beautiful Plant, flowering in June. The Leaves are of a very fine 
grafs green. The Stalk is round, fmooth, of a pale green, and eight 
inches high. The Flowers are of a very beautiful crimfon. 
This is oneofthofe Plants which we have termed univerfal, or com- 
mon, in a manner, to every part of the earth. Befide its moft natural 
place of growth, the fea coafts, it is frequent on mountains ; the Alps 
in Europe, and the Andes in America, afford it; and the fea coafts 
almoft every where. Its afpedt varies as much as its place; on mountains 
the Stalk fcarce rifes to a Finger’s heighth ; in fait marfhes it grows to 
feven or eight inches, and the Flowers are larger in proportion : for 
this reafon, two or three Species have been made out of it by the lefs 
accurate writers, even while they overlooked fuch as were truly diftindt. 
I have received it from Cumberland Ifle, not an inch high, and with 
the head fcarce fo big as a large Pea ; but the very flume Plant has 
grown in my garden to the ufual ftature. It is eaflly traced from the 
extreme North countries, down throughout North, and even South 
America, as we have mentioned of fome other Plants. 
2. LANCED 
