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IpERISs UMBELLATA. PurRPLE CANDY-Turt. 
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Cla/s and Order. 
TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA. 
Generic Chara&er. 
Corolla irregularis: Peta/is 2 exterioribus majoribus: Silicula 
poly{perma, emarginata. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
IBERIS wmbellata herbacea, foliis lanceolatis, acuminatis, 
inferioribus ferratis ; fuperioribus integerrimis. 
Linn. Syft. Veg. ed.14. Murr. p. 589. Sp. Pl. p. 906. 
THLASPI umbellatum creticum, iberidis folio. Baub. « 
Pin. 106. 
DRABA S. Arabis S. Thlafpi Candie. Dod. pempt. 713- 
THLASPI creticum umbellatum flore albo et purpureo. 
Candy-Tufts, white and purple. Park. Parad. p. 399- 
_ The Candy-Tuft is one of thofe annuals which contribute 
generally to enliven the borders of the flower-garden: its 
ufual colour is a pale purple, there is alfo a white variety of 
it, and another with deep but very bright purple flowers, the 
moft defirable of the three, but where a garden is large enough 4 
to admit of it, all the varieties may be fown. 
For want of due difcrimination, as Mrixer has before 
obferved, Nurferymen are apt to colle& and mix with this 
{pecies the feeds of another, viz. the amara, and which pert- 
fons not much {killed in plants confider as the white variety 
but a flight attention will difcover it to be a very different 
plant, having fmaller and longer heads, differing alfo in the 
-thape of its leaves and feed veffels, too trifling a plant indeed 
_ to appear in the flower-garden. 
Purple Candy-Tuft is a native of the South of Europe 
_and flowers in June and July: it fhould be fown in the fpring, 
on the borders of the flower-garden in patches; when the = 
plants come up, a few only fhould be left, as they will thereby 
become ftronger, produce more flowers, and be of longer 
duration. Sa 
