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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
GARDEN PLANTS— THEIR GEOGRAPHY— XL. 
PRIMULALES. 
THE STATICE, PRIMULA, AND MYRSINE 
ALLIANCE. 
This alliance of lo tribes, 57 genera, and i,ioo 
species, is but poorly represented in North 
American gardens, although the plants are common 
in the northern hemisphere, where they are mostly 
ARDISIA CRENULATA. 
herbs often growing at great altitudes. The sub- 
tropical and tropical tribes, however, are chiefly 
STATICE SPICATA. 
shrubs and small trees, a few species of which ex- 
tend to temperate regions. 
There are quite enough of pretty species to form 
a most interesting group in fertile cold temperate 
regions, and Ardisias and Myrsines hardy enough 
to yield the shade which many of the beautiful 
herbs require before they will thrive in warm 
climates. 
Acantholimon has 85 species described, a num- 
ber which is probably capable of reduction. They 
are branchy evergreen spiny herbs, with spikes 
of pinkish flowers, — two or three of which are 
known in gardens. They are found in the oriental 
Mediterranean regions, and eastward to Thibet. 
Statice, “ sea lavender,” is enumerated in 120 
species. They are found in the seacoast regions 
in many parts of the world, and on the deserts 'of 
North Africa and parts of Asia. Two species and 
several varieties are found in the salt marshes of 
both coasts of North 'America. The handsome 
varieties of S. macrophylla, such as Halfordii, and 
others from the Canary Islands, do well in Southern 
California, and there is no lack of pretty perennial 
and annual kinds, such as S. latifolia, etc., adapted 
PLUMBAGO ROSEA. 
to the north. The flowers are white, changing to 
blue or purple, reddish, pink, and sometimes 
yellow. 
Armcria, “ thrift,” has a great number of names 
to designate 6 or 8 species and their varieties. 
These are found on the seacoasts and mountains of 
Europe, South Africa, Northern and Western Asia, 
and North and South America. Very many varie- 
ties are referred to A. maritima, but I have never 
seen the form of that species as I remember it on 
British seacoasts, thriving in a garden. On the 
east coast tidal marshes it forms the most beautiful 
turf imaginable, so much so, that I remember a 
clergyman friend making repeated and heroic 
attempts to establish it as a lawn plant. His 
