Also 6 Our Lady’s cushion. † a. The plant Thrift, Armeria maritima. Obs. b. The Mossy Saxifrage, Saxifraga hypnoides.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, IV. l. 509. That kinde of grasse whiche groweth by the sea syde, is called … in Englishe our Ladies quishion.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, II. clxxvii. 483. In English Thrift, Sea grasse, and our Ladies Cushion.
1794. Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xix. 27. From the manner of its growth in a thick tuft, it [mossy Saxifrage] has acquired the English name of Ladies Cushion.
1854. S. Thomson, Wild Fl., III. (ed. 4), 201. The Lady’s cushion-mossy saxifrage.
