406 PENTANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA. Statice. 
Kniph. 4— E. Bot. 102— Blackw. 481— FI. Dan. 315— Matth. 980— H. Ox. 
xv. 1. row 1. n. l.f. 4 th — Dod. 351— Lob. Obs. 157. 3— Ger. Em. 411. 1 
—Park. 1234— J. B. iii. 876. 3. 
( Plant six to twelve inches high. Leaves egg-spear-shaped, two to three 
inches long, subcoriaceous, chiefly radical, glaucous, tapering into foot¬ 
stalks. Calyx reddish. Bloss. bright blue, or lavender-colour, with 
membranous scales. E.) 
Var. 1. Much smaller. Leaves gradually tapering to the base, having no 
regular leaf-stalks. Ray. 
Lob. Adv. 123— Ger. Em. 411. 2. 
We have two varieties corresponding with the above character ; in the one 
the leaves are short and blunt, in the other longer and more pointed. 
The sharp point at the end of the leaf marks them both as belonging to 
this species. Woodw. Blossom of a very deep purple. Mrs. Watt. 
This appears to be the plant which some few modern Botanists, after Ge¬ 
rard and Ray, consider a distinct species, S. cordata, and said to be well 
known in the Chelsea and Oxford gardens. Notwithstanding the decided 
opinion of Ray, “ a vulgari majore manifesto distinctum esse agnovi 
we suspect Linnaeus was fully justified in adding, “an varietas Limo- 
nii ?” Mr. G. E. Smith observes, “ the most obvious character is pre¬ 
sented by the leaves; and by the structure of the calyxwhich latter 
is for half its length membranous, and is closed after flowering; ih 
which respect it differs from S. Limonium ; which, having the hard ribs 
continuous nearly to the summit of the calyx, exhibits that part expanded 
after flowering.” Vid. Sm. Obs. PI. 2. E.) 
Harwich. Ramsgate. Ray. Cornwall. Mrs. Watt. Lynn. Mr. Wood¬ 
ward. (Holmes Islands, in the Severn. E.) 
Var. 2. Leaves longer, and taper-pointed. Flowers later. Ray. 
Lavender Thrift. (Sea Lavender. Welsh: Llemyg. E.) Salt 
marshes, and rocks on the sea-coast. Wells, Norfolk ; Southwold, Suf¬ 
folk. Mr. Woodward. (North shore of the Wear, at Hilton, near Sun¬ 
derland : by the Wear, near Southwick; on Basaltic rocks, called St. 
Cufhbert’s Island, at Holy Island, Northumberland. Mr. Winch. With 
the preceding, in Anglesey, on rocks on the south-west coast. Welsh 
Bot. Garston, near Liverpool; Brading Harbour, Isle of Wight. Dr. 
Bostock. E.) Sea banks near Walton Essex; and between Heybridge 
and Malden. Ray. Both varieties on the Lancashire coast at Low Fur¬ 
ness, and on the west side of Milnthorpe Sands, Westmoreland. Mr. 
Gough. (Coast of Galloway, near Kirkudbright. Maughan, in Hook. 
Scot. Em. Empurpling acres of the shore between Star-cross and Pow- 
derham, Devon E.) P. July—Sept.* 
S. reticula'ta. Stalk panicled, prostrate, dichotomous, zigzag: bar¬ 
ren branches naked and reflexed: leaves wedge-shaped, without 
awn-points. 
( E. Bot. 328. E.)— Pluk. 42. 4. 
Root-leaves oblong-wedge-shaped, on leaf-stalks. Stipulce half embracing 
the stem, awl-shaped, terminating in a long point, membranous at the 
* (Messrs. Kirby and Hooker discovered on this plant, in Norfolk, a nondescript insect, 
dpion Limonii, supposed to be the most splendid species of the genus. Linn. Tr. v. 9,7 8. E.) 
