. _ feet. 
Arasis AtpiIna. ALPINE WaLL-CRESs, 
Clafs and Order. 
TrETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSAs 
Generic Charafer. 
- Glandule neGarifere 4, fingulz intra calycis foliola, fqu ame 
inftar reflex. 
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Specific Character and Synonyms. 
ARABIS alpina foliis amplexicaulibus dentatis, Linn. Syft 
Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 599. Ait. Kew. Vol. 2 
-  — p. 399. Mill. Did. ed. é Alo. 
DRABA alba filiquofa repens. Baub. Pin. p. 109. 
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| An early-blowing plant, if it bas no great pretenfions to 
eauty, brings with it a powerful recommendation, mor¢ 
efpecially if its flowers are not of the more common hue 
fuch are the claims which the prefent plant has to a place in 
this work : it is perennial, hardy, herbaceous, of low growth 
rarely exceeding a foot in height, producing its white bloffom: 
in April and May: its fize renders it a fu;table plant for th 
border of a {mall garden, or*for the covering of rock-work. 
It is readily increafed by parting its roots in autummis 
Grows fpontaneoufly on the Alps of Switzerland, Auftria, 
and Lapland, @nd was cultivated (vid. Hort. Kew) in th 
Botanic Garden at Oxford, in 86s Se 
