The VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 
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2. LANCED THRIFT. 
Plate 13. Fig. 2. 
Character of the Species. Statice Speciofa. 
The Leaves are lanced ; the Stalk is two-edged and 
forked, and has fome Films. 
Fig. 'i.abc. 
This is a biennial, native of Raffia and China ; a very handfome 
Plant, flowering in July and Auguft. The Leaves are of a deep, but 
fomewhat blueifh green. The Stalk is ten inches high, pale and firm. 
It ufually divides into two branches in a forked manner, and each fup- 
ports ieveral heads of Flowers ; thefe are large but pale, often white 
entirely. 
3. HIGH RIB’D THRIFT. 
Plate 14. Fig. 1. 
Chara&er of the Species. Statice flexuofa. 
The Leaves are oblong, oval, obtufe, and high rib’d : the 
Stalk is branch’d. 
Fig. r . a b. 
This is a perennial, native of Siberia; a very handfome Plant, 
flowering in September. The Leaves are of a very pale green, with 
high white Ribs. The Stalk is whitiffi, weak, and about a foot high. 
The Flowers are of a very fine crimfon. 
This Plant varies like the common Thrift in ftature, and in the 
bignefs of the heads. I have feen it from three inches to half a yard in 
heighth, and in fome Plants the Heads are full as big as a Nutmeg, and 
perfectly regular; while in others, they are flight, fmall, irregular, and 
divided. Soil and fituation do all this. They often change the afpedf 
of a Plant in fome degree ; but never affett its charaderiftick parts. 
4. WOODY 
