ARABIS. 
A. ambigua, with incarnata, sinuata, and others, are tufted 
perennials from the far north of Asia, that may or may not prove 
worth the growing. 
A. androsacea is a lovely little plant from Taurus, forming clumps 
of neat rosettes, reminiscent of those of Androsace villosa, and the 
more so that these also are silver-silky with hairs. 
A. aubrietioeides bears an ambitious name, which it earns by 
forming close, grey-hairy or green tufts of blunt obovate leaves, with 
a few blunt teeth. These leaves are gathered at the base, while the 
upper ones embrace the stem of the flower-spike, which carries a 
few purple flowers, fine and large. (Cilician Alps.) 
A. Billiardiert, from Lebanon, is a form of A. albida, rather weakly, 
but more pleasant in its rosea variety, which has typical blossoms 
of a soft rosy lilac, the spikes not being quite so much over- 
weighted by the mass of coarse leafage below, as in most forms 
of A. albida. 
A. blepharophylla, from California, grows from 4 to 8 inches high. 
All the leaves have an eyelash of soft hairs, and the large flowers are 
purplish pink. It is not particularly permanent unless in warm 
sandy soil, perfectly drained, in a sunny place. 
A. bryoeides is a very neat wee cushion, all hoary, from high places 
on Athos. 
A. Carduchorum is the same thing as Draba gigas, Stur.—a plant 
with mats of loose rosettes made up of stiff narrow green leaves, rather 
blunt. The flowers and the whole growth are indeed like those of 
a lax Draba, but the fine white blossoms are but shyly produced as 
a rule in England. 
A. cilicica comes under A. ionocalyx from the woods of Caria—a 
species not by any means valuable, a foot high, big-leaved and 
bristlish, with red calyx. 
A. coerulea has a most alluring name, which it earns very easily. 
For though the flowers are certainly quite bluish, they are so micro- 
scopically small as to be nearly invisible, gathered on a miserable 
spike above a biennial rosette. This is a quite common weed of the 
highest alpine shingles, and perfectly worthless. 
A. dacica isa tidy little tuffet with large attractive flowers of white 
or pink, for the moraine or choice place, such as is demanded by all 
Arabids that are not rank weeds. 
A. drabaefoliais also Draba hirta, Arabis Boissiert, Griseb., or Draba 
saxicola or setulosa. It is a choice species close to A. androsacea, 
but green instead of silver, though with the same fringe of hair to the 
foliage ; it comes from the Bithynian Olympus. 
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