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% i ARABIS BLEPHAROPHYLLA, 3 
Native of California. 
Nat. Ord, Crucirerz.—Tribe ARABIDER. 
Genus Aranis, Linn. ; (Benth. § Hook. J. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p, 69), 
Aranis blepharophylla ; perennis, erecta, caulibus foliosis, foliis ciliatis et 
sparse pilosis radicalibus rosulatis obovato-spathulatis obtusis sinuato-y. 
serrato-dentatis, caulinis elliptico-v, lineari-oblongis obtusis basi sim- 
plicibus v. subauriculatis, racemis brevibus latis obtusis, floribus gracile 
pedicellatis amplis roseis, petalis obovato-cordatis, siliquis 1}-pollicaribus 
erectis rectis v. lente curvis linearibus, valvis utringue obtusis costa 
nervisque lateralibus flexuosis validis, stylo brevissimo, seminibus 
1-seriatis orbicularibus compressissimis exalatis brunneis. 
Anazis blepharophylla, Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy., p. 821, 
Of the large genus Arabis almost all have white flowers ; in 
a very few species they are yellow, and in this alone of those 
known to me, do the colour and size of flower together recom- 
mend it for cultivation. It is a native of San Francisco, in 
California, where it was discovered by David Douglas in 1833, 
and has since been collected by Bridges, Brewer, Bolander, 
and others, and is described as a great ornament in March 
on the hills of that State. It seems remarkable that so con- 
spicuous a plant, growing in what is now a populous State, 
should be so little known, but I find no other description of 
it than that in the Botany of Beechey’s Voyage, published 
thirty-five years ago; nor do I find any mention of it in the 
-Mmultitudinous and cumbrous records of the United States’ 
Surveying Expeditions. Professor Asa Gray, of Cambridge, 
was, I believe, the first to send ripe seeds to England—this 
was in 1865—from which plants were raised at Kew, and by 
Mr, Thompson, of Ipswich, if I recollect aright; but it was 
hot till quite recently that the plants throve (from seeds sent 
by Commissioner Watt, of the Agricultural Department of 
Washington) and appeared in their full beauty. The speci- 
men here figured flowered at Kew in J anuary, in a cool 
MARCH Ist, 1874, 
