PENTANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA. Statice. 405 
Heath. Pulteney. In the Orkney Isles, of an extremely diminutive size, 
scarcely an inch high in full blossom, with all the characters of the more 
usual appearance of the plant. Hooker. In Anglesey. Welsh Bot. 
Pentland Hills, abundant near the water-house. Mr. Neill. King’s Park. 
Mr. Bainbridge. Grev. Edin. (In meadows at Perm’s Mill, near Erding- 
ton, Warwickshire. In marshy ground by the side of a rill a few hun¬ 
dred yards to the left of the road leading from Norton to Dodford, near 
Daventry. E.) P. Aug.—Sept. 
PENTAGYNIA. 
STATICE* Cal. one leaf, entire, plaited, dry, permanent: 
Petals five : Caps, one-celled, without valves : Seed 
upright, (invested with the funnel-shaped calyx. E.) 
S. arme'ria. Stalk simple, bearing a globular head of flowers: leaves 
strap-shaped. 
Dicks. H. S. — {Hook. FI. Land. 122. E.) — E. Bot. 226— FI. Dan. 1092— 
Wale. — -Kniph. 5 — Dod. 564. 1 — Lob. Obs.- 242. 1— Ger. Em. 602. 1 — 
Park. 1279. 13— Ger. 482. 1 —J. B. iii. 336. 2— Pet. 72. 8. 
{Root woody. Calyx small, upright. Petals inversely egg-shaped with a 
small claw. Plant growing in dense tufts. Leaves all radical. Blossom 
rose-colour; rarely white. E.) Stalk from two to eight inches high. 
( Styles beset with delicate white patent hairs near their base. Calyx 
singularly scariose at the extremity, with five nerves of a green colour 
tinged with red, running up into the white membrane. Foliage remark¬ 
ably linear and channelled. When young the jlower-stalks are covered 
with a scariose sheath, which bursts into a triphyllous membrane. The 
alpine variety is generally small. In Orkney, upon the shores of North 
Ronaldsha, the whole plant rises scarcely an inch above the ground, with 
the head quite sessile. FI. Loud. E.) 
Common Thrift. Sea Gilliflower. Ladies’ Cushion/ (Welsh: 
Archmain ; Clustog Fair. Gaelic: Bar-dearg ; Tonag-a-chladaich. E.) 
Meadows and rocks on the sea-coast, and mountainous situations, as 
Snowdon; near Settle; and Ingleborough. Wensley Dale, between 
Askrig and Aysgarth. Mr. Wood. Wells, Norfolk; Southwold, Suffolk. 
Mr. Woodward. All along the rocky coast of Cornwall. Mr. Watt. At 
Knot’s Hole, Garston, near Liverpool; between the Basaltic columns 
on the Isle of Ulva. Dr. Bostock. About Barmouth. Miss Roberts. (In 
great profusion by the footpath leading over the rocks between Whit¬ 
burn and Tynemouth. On the Flat Holmes, in the Severn. Inch- 
keith, in the Firth of Forth. On the cliffs near Sidmouth, very large. 
E.) P. May—June.t 
S. limo'nium. (Stalk panicled, cylindrical: spikes level-topped, re¬ 
clining : leaves smooth, without nerves, awned at the apex. E.) 
* (From £ttocto£, enduring long. E.) 
t (It is much used in gardens as an edging for borders, and when in full blossom 
gives agiowing tinge to pastures on the sea coast. (By cultivation it increases in size and 
varies in colour, and has a pleasing effect in its more natural clusters on rugged banks or 
rock-work, E.) Horses and goats eat it. Sheep are not fond of it. 
