armeria

Historical Examples

• Armeria, a genus of handsome plants growing on the sea-coast.

  The Sailor's Word-Book

  William Henry Smyth

• Two other Visigothic crowns are also preserved with it in the Armeria Real.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7

  Various

• There was a little turf in one place, in the next a tuft of armeria, then mud or clay, and there—assuredly a foot had trodden.

  In the Roar of the Sea

  Sabine Baring-Gould

• The caterpillar feeds on the roots of thrift or sea-pink (Armeria vulgaris), and is full grown about June.

  The Moths of the British Isles, Second Series

  Richard South

• The caterpillar is said to feed on the flower heads of common Thrift (Armeria vulgaris).

  British Butterfiles

  W. S. Coleman