AETHIONEMA. 
Ae. iberideum makes a neat, compact, and characteristic leafy clump 
often seen in gardens, with many erect stems of 6 inches or so, thickly 
set with glaucous-grey foliage, broadly egg-shaped and pointed, taper- 
ing to the stem. The flowers are largish and white, sitting in scant 
clusters at the tips of the leafy shoots. Ae. cberidewm is generally 
distributed in the Levantine Alps, and has had the alternative 
name of Ae. brachystachyum. Its blooms hardly balance its leafage. 
Ae. lacerum is found in the rocks of Pylae in Cilicia, a beautiful little 
species of some 6 inches, with largish egg-shaped leaves, rather pointed, 
the lowest alone having a minute stalk. The flowers are big, with 
long petals, and stamens standing free. The seed-pods, too, are 
attenuated. 
Ae. lignosum (Eunomia) is a prostrate woody twisted plant, with 
short 4-inch boughs beset with short broadish blunt foliage, and 
ending in a tight head of large pink blossoms exactly as in Ae. capi- 
tatum. The sepals in this species are rimmed with pink, and the 
charmer is found at some 8000 to 9000 feet on Berytagh in Cataonia. 
Ae. membranaceum (Eunomia) is a 6- or 9-inch bush of erect un- 
branching stems, from Elvend in Persia. The leaves are narrowly 
oblong, and stand up rather stiffly along the shoots; the pink flowers 
are large, and the fruit is carried in a rather dense head of overlapping 
flat round pods. 
Ae. Moricandianum (Eunomia), from the mountains of Caria, is a 
splendid species very near Ae. cordatum, but the yellow blooms are still 
larger, and the leaves are all opposite to each other, blunt, and hardly 
heart-shaped at the base. The plant forms few, low, leafy twigs, 
the leaves sitting close to the stem, without a stalk, or nearly. The 
handsome flowers rival those of Ae. grandiflorum, with a long pro- 
jecting style. 
Ae. oppositifolium (Eunomia) is a reproduction in style and beauty 
of Ae. chloraefolium. 
Ae. persicum of gardens is an obscure name, the true species being 
of little value, as it dies after flowering. 
Ae. pulchellum is Ae. coridifolium of too many gardens, but not of 
De Candolle ; being his variety 6 of Ae. grandiflorum. From this it 
may at once be known by its diminished size, and petals only two and 
a half times as long as the sepals; and from both Ae. grandiflorum 
and Ae. coridifolium by the fact that its erect or flopping boughs are 
branched into many minor shoots. The fruit spikes are longer than 
in these last, and the seed-pods are obovate, deeply heart-lobed at the 
end, with rather broad, nibbled-looking wings of membrane. The 
species ranges from Elburs to Armenian Pontus, where it is common. 
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