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Draba Pyrenaica. Mountain Whitlow* 



Grass. 



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Clafs and Order. 

 Tetradynamia Siliculo&a. 



Generic Cbarafter. 



Silicula integra ovali-oblonga : valvis planiufculis diflepU 

 memo parallels. Stylus nu.llus. 



Specific Character and Synonyms, 



DRABA pyrenaica* fcapo nudo, foliis cuneiformibus palmatfs 

 trilobis, Leofl, It. 61. Spec. PL 896*. Willd. Sp. PL 

 v. 3. 428. Crantz. Aujl. fafc. %. p. 13. /. 1. / 5* 

 J acq. Anftr. t. 228. Allion. Pedem. t. 8./. l. Mart* 

 Mill. Bin. a. 5. 



ALYSSON pyrenaicum perenne minimum, foliis trifidis* 

 Tournef. InJ. 217. Allion. Rar. t. t.f. 1. 



DRABA pyrenqica* FLBqnica t. 143. non ad hanc pertinet. 



We received this little alpine plant from- Mr. Loiidigbs, of 

 Hackney. It poffeffes no great beauty, but being hardy and. 

 eafily propagated by cuttings, may ferve to ornament rock- 

 work. The ftalks are ufually perennial, becoming woody,, 

 naked or covered with the decayed leaves, and bears nodules 

 of leaves at the extremities of the branches, from the centre 

 of which the peduncles grow, bearing ufually two or three and 

 fometimes more flowers, which are at firft white, but after- 

 wards change to purple.. 



A native of the mountains of the South of Europe. As 

 yet rare in this country, not. found in the catalogue of Kew 

 plants. Flowers in May. 



