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IBERIS NANA. SpaTHULATE FLESHY-LEAVED 
CANDY-TUFT. 
KEKE EEK KEKE KEKE EKER EK 
Class and Order. 
TerrapyNnamiA Sinicunosa. 
( Nat. Ord.—Crucirer2. ) 
Generic Character. 
Silicula emarginata: valvis navicularibus alatis ; loculis 
monospermis. Petala inequalia. Br. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Iseris nana; herbacea glabra, foliis subrotundo-spathu- 
latis integris subcarnosis, siliculis corymbosis emargi- 
natis, sinu latiusculo obtuso. D. C. “Cad 
Iperis nana. “ All. Auct. p. 15. b. 2. f. 1.” Willd. Sp. 
Pl. v. 3. p. 456. De Cand. Fl. Fr. ed. 3. v. 4, p. 717. 
Syst. Veget.v. 2. p.403. Prodr.v.1.p.179. Spreng. 
Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 864. | 
Iperis aurosica. Vill. Delph. v. 1. p. 349. v. 3. p. 289. 
Descr. Biennial, at least, in a state of cultivation, 
having a short, purple, naked stem, and a few horizontal, 
simple, or again divided, straggling branches, purple at the 
base, and cylindrical, green and angular at the extremity. 
Leaves broadly oval, or roundish on the barren branches, 
narrower on the fertile ones, tapering into a footstalk, so 
as on the whole to be spathulate, dark green, thick, and 
fleshy, with a central nerve, the margin entire, or slightly 
serrated, every where perfectly glabrous, the uppermost 
ones almost linear. Flowers large, in terminal corymbs, 
scentless. Pedicels; the longest scarcely half an inch 
long. Calyx of four unequal, erecto-patent, concave, ellip- 
tico-spathulate, obtuse leaflets: the inner one the smallest, 
and with a small tuft of hairs in the middle. Petals, ne 
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