right of priority, and is accordingly adopted by Willdenow 

 and in the Hortus Kewensis. Linnaeus considered this species 

 to be the same as his bellidif'oUa, but most botanists, who have 

 collected the plants in their native soil, agree in regarding 

 them as quite distinct. Arabis nutans grow.- on the highest 

 alps near to the region of perpetual snow ; betlidifolia on the 

 borders of springs and rivulets formed by the melted snow 

 in less elevated situations. But after all we have found it 

 impossible to select satisfactorily the synonyms as applied by 

 different authors to one or the other. 



Our plant possessed none of the roughness of the pumila of 

 Jacquin ; but this may be lost by cultivation. It agrees well 

 with Moench's description of his nutans, but not so well 

 with that of Jacquin's pumila by Wulfen ; and indeed we 

 entertain some doubts whether these authors describe the 

 same species. Communicated by Mr. Knight of the Exotic 

 Nursery, King's Road. 



