Sempervivum tectorum in abundance, Statice armeria, Ammone vernalis, Dianthus carthusianorum, with other sand-plants, were growing there.
"The Earth as Modified by Human Action"
George P. Marsh
In the days of Pacicchelli, it was a fine place-"magnifico nelle regole di Fortezza, con cinque baloardi provveduti di cannoni di bronzo, ed una riccha armeria, degna habitazione di don Carlo Maria Carrafa, Prencipe della Roccella, che se ne intitola Marchese."
"Old Calabria"
Norman Douglas
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.
"The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II"
A.E. Nordenskieold