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sisting, under the former government, of the deputies of the 
Seven United Provinces. 
In this assembly, the deputies of e?ch province, of what 
number soever they were, had only one voice and were 
esteemed as but one person, the votes being given by pro¬ 
vinces. Each province presided at the assembly in its turn, 
according to the order settled among them: Guelderland 
presided first, then Holland, &c. 
This assembly was the representative of the sovereignty of 
the Union, which resided properly in the general assembly of 
the states themselves of all the several provinces; but as that 
assembly ordinarily consisted of seven or eight hundred per¬ 
sons, it was resolved, after the departure of the earl of Leices¬ 
ter, in order to avoid expence, and the confusion of so 
numerous a body, that the provincial estates should for the 
future be ordinarily represented by their deputies, under the 
name of the States-general; who were always to reside at the 
Hague, and who alone were called States-general. 
STATES-GENERAL of France, assemblies which 
were first called A. D. 1302, and were held occasionally from 
that period to the year 1614, when they were discontinued, 
till they were summoned again at an interesting period, viz. 
in the year 1789. These States-general, however, were very 
different from the ancient assemblies of the French nation 
uuder the kings of the first and second race. The old States- 
general had only the privilege of advising and remonstrating; 
the legislative authority resided in the king alone. 
STA'TESMAN, s. A politician; one versed in the arts 
of government. 
It looks grave enough 
To seem a statesman. B. Jonson. 
One employed in public affairs.-—Is it a weakness which 
attends high and low; the states?nan who holds the helm, 
as well as the peasant who holds the plough. South. —One 
who occupies his own estate; a small landholder. Used for¬ 
merly in several parts of England, especially in the northern. 
STATESVILLE, a post township and capital of the 
United States, in Iredel county. North Carolina, 24 miles 
west-south-west of Salisbury. It contains a court-house, jail, 
an academy, a church, and about 50 houses. 
STA'TESWOMAN, s. A woman who meddles with 
public affairs; in contempt.-—Several objects may inno¬ 
cently be ridiculed, as the passions of our stateswomen. 
Addison. 
STATFOLD, a parish of England, in Staffordshire; 21 
miles north-east of Tamworth. 
STATHENI, a people of India, in the number of those 
who were subjugated by Alexander. 
STATHEUSIS [formed of <;a.9evu, I heaf), a word used 
by the old writers to express the torrefaction or roasting of 
some medicines before a slow fire, as is done frequently at 
present with rhubarb, &c. 
STATIC, or Statical, adj. Relating to the science of 
weighing, chiefly the body.—-If one by a statical engine 
could regulate his insensible perspiration, he might, often, 
by restoring of that, foresee, prevent, or shorten a fit of the 
gout. Arbuthnot. 
STATICE [of Pliny, Srarwo; from statuo; per¬ 
haps from its uprightness], in Botany, a genus of the class 
pentandria, order pentagynia, natural order of aggregate 
plumbagines (Juss.) — Generic Character. Calyx: pe¬ 
rianth common, of a different structure in the species. 
Perianth proper, one-leafed, funnel-form: tube narrowed: 
border entire, plaited, scariose. Corolla funnel - form. 
Petals five, united at the base, narrowed below, above 
wider, obtuse, spreading. Stamina: filaments five, awl- 
shaped, shorter than the corolla, inserted into the corolla 
by their claws. Anthers incumbent. Pistil: germ very 
minute. Styles five, filiform, distant. Stigmas acute. Pe¬ 
ricarp : capsule oblong, somewhat cylindrical, membrana¬ 
ceous, five-cusped, one-celled, valveless.—-Proper calyx con- 
.tracted at the neck, expanded in the border, cherishing the 
capsule when the corolla withers. Seed single, oblong, 
hanging from a long cord.— Essential Character. Calyx 
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one-petalled, entire, plaited, scariose. Petals five. Seed 
one, superior. 
1. Statice armeria. Thrift, or sea gilliflower.—Scape sim¬ 
ple, headed ; leaves linear, flat, obtuse. Common thrift has 
a perennial woody root, bearing many thick tufts of lax, 
linear, channelled, smooth, entire leaves.—Native of Europe 
and North America. This has two or three varieties. 
2. Statice juniperifolia, or juniper-leaved thrift.—Scape 
simple headed; leaves linear, three-sided, rigid, pungent. 
Tufted, smooth.—Native of Spain and Portugal. 
3. Statice alliacea.—Scape simple headed; leaves linear- 
lanceolate, acute.—Native of Spain on the mountains of 
Enguera, and at the foot of the mountain Montduber and 
Grospeda. 
4. Statice cephalotes, or large simple-stalked thrift.— 
Scape simple headed; leaves oblong, flat, acuminate, atten¬ 
uated at the base.—It is a native of Algarbia, in Portugal : 
also of Spain, about Cadiz, &c. Desfontaines found it in 
sands near La Calle, in Barbary. 
5. Statice graminifolia, or grass-leaved thrift.—Scape pa- 
nicled; branches three-sided ; leaves linear, channelled. 
6. Statice limonium. Sea thrift, or sea lavender.—Scape 
panicled, round ; leaves oblong, obtuse, smooth, nerveless ; 
with a sharp point under the tip, waved at the edge. Sea 
lavender, as it is commonly called, though it has scarcely 
any resemblance to lavender, and none of its aromatic 
quality, has a strong, perennial, woody root. This plant 
varies much as to luxuriance, being sometimes found with 
leaves scarcely an inch long, and not more than six or eight 
flowers in a panicle, and at other times much larger, with the 
flowers far more abundant. The bright blue colour distin¬ 
guishes it at a distance, and that colour is tolerably perma¬ 
nent. Though less magnificent than some of the foreign 
species, it is a beautiful plant. The leaves are obovate-lan- 
ceolate, and quite entire The scape is alternately branched, 
with the branchlets corymbed. Capsule covered by the calyx 
and corolla, oblong, roundish, membranaceous, five-cusped 
at the top. Seed smooth, somewhat of a rust colour.—There 
are two varieties of this common in England, and one found 
in France. 
7. Statice Gmelini.—Scape panicled, angular; leaves 
oblong-ovate, emarginate, flat, cartilage-edged, mucronate 
beneath.—Native of Siberia, in salt places from the Jaickto 
Angara. 
8. Statice scoparia.—Scape panicled, round; leaves ob¬ 
long-ovate, coriaceous, mucronate, dotted beneath.—Native 
of Siberia. 
9. Statice latifolia, or broad-leaved sea lavender.—Scape 
panicled, very much branched, rugged; leaves pubescent, 
with hairs in stellated bundles.—Found in Russian Tartary. 
10. Statice oleaafolia, or olive-leaved sea lavender.—Scape 
panicled; branches angular-winged ; leaves lanceolate, mu- 
cron at e-cusped, cartilaginous at the edge. Root perennial, 
woody.—It grows naturally in Narbonne and Provence, 
Italy and Spain. 
11. Statice incana, or hoary sea lavender.—Scape pa¬ 
nicled ; leaves lanceolate, three-nerved, somewhat waved, 
mucronate at the tip; branches of the panicle three-sided. 
—Native of Egypt and Siberia. 
12. Statice auriculaefolia, or auricula leaved sea lavender. 
—Scape simple, round; spikes lateral and terminating, di¬ 
rected one way; leaves spatulate, acute.—Native of the 
coast of Barbary. 
13. Statice cordata, or heart-leaved sea lavender.—Scape 
panicled; leaves spatulate, refuse.—It grows naturally near 
the sea, about Marseilles, Leghorn, the maritime rocks of 
Piedmont, Spain, &c., and in Barbary. 
14. Statice scabra, or rough-branched sea lavender.— 
Leaves radical, obovate, oblong, obtuse; branches rugged. 
—Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
15. Statice telragona, or square-stalked sea lavender.— 
Scape panicled, four-cornered; leaves obovate.—Native of 
the Cape of Good Hope. 
16. Statice reticulata, or matted sea lavender.—Scape 
panicled, prostrate, flexuose; lower branches barren; leaves 
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