Crossword-Solution: ARMERIA 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Sempervivum tectorum in abundance, Statice armeria, Ammone vernalis, Dianthus carthusianorum, with other sand-plants, were growing there.

Instances may be cited of the white varieties of the snapdragon, of the red clover, the long-spurred violet (_Viola_ [282] _cornuta_) the sea-shore aster (_Aster Tripolium_), corn-rose (_Agrostemma Githago_), the Sweet William (_Silene Armeria_), and many garden flowers, as for instance, the _Clarkia pulchella_, the _Polemonium coeruleum_, the _Veronica longifolia_, the gloxinias and others.

Clarkia elegans, Double Salmon 2 Clarkia elegans, Double Delicate Pink 2 Godetia, Double Rose 2 Jacobea, Single, Bright Rose 2 Poppy, Pink Gem 2 Poppy, Cardinal, Salmon-pink 2 Poppy, Shirley, Single Rose-pink 2 Poppy, Shirley, Double Pink 2 Saponaria Vaccaria, Pink 2 Clarkia, Double Rose 1-1/2 Hawkweed, Pink 1-1/2 Jacobea, Double, Rose 1-1/2 Silene Armeria, Rose 1-1/2 Statice Suworowi 1-1/4 DWARF.

For two or three years I do not remember to have seen it, or the seedlings, without flowers; its pretty, dwarf, rue-like foliage grew so thickly that it threatened to kill the edging of gentianella and such things as _Polemonium variegatum_, the double cuckoo-flower, and the little _Armeria setacea_; it also filled the walks, and its long wiry roots have been eradicated with difficulty.

Next the shore were found close beds of Elymus, alternating with carpets of _Halianthus peploides_, and further up a poor, even, gravelly soil, covered with water in spring, on which grew only a slate-like lichen, _Gyrophora proboscidea_, and a few flowering plants, of which _Armeria sibirica_ was the most common.