ALYSSUM. 
hoary scaly little obovate leaves, each with a small stalk of its own, 
all up the stem, and large lemon-pale flowers with obovate petals, in 
a head that often widens till it seems almost to form an umbel. The 
pod, too, is longer than is usual. (High Alps of North Syria and 
Lycia.) 
A. creticum is a sub-shrub after the invaluable habit of A. sazatile, 
twisted and woody, attaining a foot or so high, with leaves often an 
inch long, and heads of golden flowers twice the size of Montanum’s. 
Its leafage has the further advantage, so fashionable in this family, 
of being scaled with silver; and it inhabits the cliffs of Lassiti in 
Crete, at the height of some 6000 feet. 
A. cuneifolium is a pretty but rare species from high up in the 
Sierra Nevada and Eastern Pyrenees, Dauphiné and the Abruzzi. It 
has specially twisted stems, with all its silvery leaves obovate, and soft 
yellow flowers. Quite near, but with shoots much straighter, lying 
splayed along the ground, is A. diffuswm, an extremely rare weak- 
ling from high-alpine earth-slides at about 9000 feet in the Sierra 
Nevada. 
A. cyclocarpum = Ptilotrichum cyclocarpum, q.v. 
A. edentilum is the correct name for a most beautiful saxatiloid 
Alyssum often offered as A. gemonense, and as such one of the most 
valuable in the family, being in appearance a rather neater and 
smaller A. saxatile, with rather larger flowers, of a flaming golden fire, 
with petals cleft almost to the base. (Hastern Alps to the Banat.) 
A. erosulum is a false name for A. suffruticosum, q.v. 
A. Fischerianum is a species from North Russia, herbaceous at first 
and then becoming almost shrubby. The blossoms are in undivided 
heads at the end of the shoots, and the leaves are narrowly oblong, 
hoary, and rather rough. 
A. gemonense, a false name for A. edentulum, q.v. 
A. Haussknechtii, from Berytagh in Cataonia, forms a small tidy 
tuft of 3 inches or so in nature, freely branching, and all clothed in 
silver scales, with obovate yellow petals. (A twin tothisis A.lanigerum, 
from North Persia.) 
A. idaeum is a plant well beloved in the rock-garden, with frail, 
prostrate, and slender shoots. In appearance it is not at all unlike 
A. Wulfenianum of the Eastern Alps, but the leaves are longer and 
more pointed, narrower, and less flat and few upon the flopping stems; . 
they are oblong-rounded at first, then oval-acute, finely fringed, and 
shimmering silver-green with their minute scales. The soft yellow 
petals are oblong wedge-shaped, and the pods are very nearly round 
and quite smooth but densely hoary. From the stony summit of 
