ARABIS. 
A. exilis contains a part of A. Hoelboeilit, g.v., as does also A. 
rhodantha, a thing of little merit. 
A. Ferdinandi-Cobwrgi, cumbrously named after that enlightened 
monarch of Bulgaria, is a close kinsman to A. procurrens, but is smaller 
in growth, lower in height, and with leaves greyish instead of lucent 
emerald. It comes from Macedonia. 
A. flagellosa makes runners all over the place, after the style of 
Nepeta hederacea, with very dainty little nodding loose clusters of 
large white blossoms rising 2 or 3 inches above the neat obovate 
upstanding leaves. It is a Japanese species, and should have great 
charm in some cool and shady bed where it can run. 
A. formosa has fine flesh-pink flowers, some inch and a half across, 
on erect stiff twigs of from 8 to 16 inches. It belongs to North 
America, and the leaves are never toothed. 
A. Halleri is yet another runner, for cool, damp, shady places. It 
belongs to Mid-Europe, and has feathered leaves, and white flowers 
of good size, even prettier in the form called rosea. 
A. Hoelboellii, sometimes offered, should be avoided if sate is any 
danger of getting the true plant. For it is a biennial, attaining to 
3 feet in height, with leafy stems, pink stars, leaves downy only at 
the base, and pods deflexing when in fruit. It is a North-American 
species, and contains within its range of variation many names into 
which it is often divided —as A. rhodantha, exilis, brachycarpa, and 
Drummondiz. 
A. Kellereri—A massed silvery clump, emitting white flowers, and 
altogether of much charm for chink or moraine. 
A. Lemmonii, another from North America, is much prettier than 
its compatriots—a perennial, green and smooth above, with all the 
leaves devoid of toothings. The basal ones are fat and thick; the 
stem rises to 6 or 8 inches, and the blossoms are purple. 
A. lucida only needs mention on account of its variegated forms, 
which, for those who like such things, are just the sort of things they 
like, making clumps of largish rosettes, brightly lucent-green, with a 
yellow or whitish border. The flowers are worthless, in a lank spike, 
and the plant of the easiest culture. 
A. oblanceolata forms sound perennial tufts, from which shoot up 
many stems of about a foot, all leafy with foliage that amply embraces 
the stalk and even overlaps into pointed wings on either side beyond 
it. They are not specially hairy, and the flowers are red-purple. 
A. pedemontana has the interest of its remarkable rarity. It is a 
neat rosetted species, sending up stems of 6 inches or so, with graceful 
heads of quite large and conspicuous white bloom. It may be seen 
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