Crossword-Solution: BLITE 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Blite, _Blitum_; English _Mercury_, or (as our Country House wives call it) _All-good_, the gentle _Turiones_, and Tops may be eaten as _Sparagus_, or sodden in Pottage: There is both a white and red, much us'd in _Spain_ and _Italy_; but besides its humidity and detersive Nature, 'tis _Insipid_ enough.

Part of a shingle beach shewing plants of Sea Blite (_Suaeda fruticosa_) and a ring plover's nest with four eggs.] Before passing on it may be mentioned that screens with patterns other than that represented in Fig.

During severe weather I have observed them in Norfolk, flocking to the salt marshes, and feeding on the seeds of saline plants, especially those of the shrubby sea-blite.

But I do not offer an aquarium as a “Hobson’s choice.” To say nothing about rides and drives and fishing, and moth or butterfly-hunting, a botanist may seek and find in the season the wild tulip, the lily of the valley, the sea buck-thorn, the sea blite, and other varieties, besides the commoner and more beautiful flowers that flourish and abound in the byways and backwoods in the rear of the town.

Look at the sea-daisy, and you will see that the leaves are very thick and juicy; so are those of the sea-blite and salt spurry.