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Draba Aizoides. Sengreen Dsaba, or 

 Whitlow-Grass. 



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- Clafs and Order. 



Tetradynamia Siliculosa. 



Generic Characler. 



Silicula Integra, ovali-oblonga : valvis planiufculis, diffepi- 

 mento parallelis. Stylus nullus. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



DRABA aizoides fcapo nudo fimplici, foliis enfiformibus 

 carinatis ciliatis. Linn. Syji. Vegetab. ed. Murr. f* 

 372. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 2. p. 372. 



SEDUM alpinum hirfutum luteum. Bauh. Pin. 284. 



LEUCOJUM luteum aizoides montanum. Col. Lcphr. 2. 

 p. 62. 



The plant here figured, a native of the German Alps, is 

 one of thofe whofe beauty cannot be fhewn in a fmall de- 

 tached piece of it; to be admired, it muft be feen in a tuft 

 of fome considerable fize, which it is much difpofed to form 

 when growing among rock-work, for which, like many other 

 fmall Alpine plants, it is well fuited ; thus elevated above the 

 furface of the ground, the various beauties of this humble 

 Tace are more diftin&ly feen, and their curious ftructure more 

 readily infpe&ed. 



This fpecies is the more to be efteemed, as it flowers very 

 early in the fpring, in March, and the beginning of April, 

 and continues in bloffom about fix weeks. 



LinnvEus originally confounded it with a fimilar plan** 

 the Draba alpina t a miftake fince rectified in his Mantift 

 Plant, p. 91. 



