The VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 41 
4. WOODY THRIFT. 
Plate 14. Fig. 2. 
Chara&er of the Species. Statice Suffruticofa. 
The Stem is woody; the Leaves are lanc’d, round pointed, 
and embrace it at their Bafe. 
Fig. 2. a b. 
This Is a perennial, hard and woody Plant, native of the north of 
Europe and of Aha; and flowers in Auguft. It grows to two feet or 
more in heighth ; the lower part of the Stem is brown and hard ; the 
upper Branches are green and tender ; the Leaves are of a very fine 
green ; the Flowers are of a pale, but delicate crimfon. 
It has of late been a cuflom to join the Thrift, and the Sea Lavender^ 
together in one Genus but they were always, till of late, divided; and 
we retain the old diftindtion : the difpofition of the Flowers demands 
it ; and the charadter it gives, is plain and obvious. 
AGGREGATES. 
ORDER III. 
Whofe particular Cup is Bmple; or cut into a Engle 
feries or range of Segments. 
GENUS I. 
GLOBEWORT. 
GLOBULARIA. 
Character of the Genus. 
The Head is globular, and thick fet with Flowers. The 
general Cup is equal to the Flowers in length. Each 
feparate Flower is tubular at the Bafe, and cut into 
four Segments at the Rim ; the upper one fhort, and 
turn’d back ; the three others long, Bender, and pointed. 
Plate 15. O. a b c. 
'* Limonium. 
F 
1. OVAL 
