It is a very pretty herb, and puts forth thick prickly and sad green leaves, like those of aloes; a brown naked stalk, about half the length of your finger, whereon hang round heads of flesh-coloured flowers in bunches, which are hardly to be discerned by the naked eye, one flower close above another, and near to another.

Sometimes two stalks shoot out of one plant, one bigger than the other. Yet each stalk has two of these bunches of flowers.

I could not delineate its seed for want of time. The root consists of many small fibres. We gathered it in great plenty on the 17th of July, behind the cookery of Harlem, in the running water. I know not well to what kind this may be referred. Caspar Bauhin maketh mention of an herb in his Prodronius of his Amphitheater of plants in the 5th book and 15th chapter, which he calls Limonium Maritimum, which he describeth with small, roundish, and thick leaves, like house-leek, between which spread small stalks with pale red flowers; but the root doth not agree with our plant, for his is long, red and parted at top, whereas this root consists in many small fibers, and is not red.