DRABA. 
moraine. Yet somehow a race that never attracts the full notice 
that it ought, and in catalogues is represented by a longish string of 
bare names with little or nothing to enlighten them. So that but 
few species are ever recognised or grown, where there are many more 
well worth the very slight attention they require. For almost all 
Drabas grow with the utmost ease and readiness in any light open soil 
and place, can be raised abundantly from seed, and (in the section 
Aeizopsis and Chrysodraba at least), are easily propagated by removal 
of shoots or rosette about August. The race is alpine and high-alpine, 
very freely spread in the loftiest and sternest rocky places of both 
the Old and the New World, extending in a wide range, right down 
the Andes; and it is divided into three groups, so clearly marked 
and notable that it will be convenient to make use of them here. 
The first section then, Aeizopsis, consists of species never forming into 
a carpet, but growing in a cushion, large or small, of tightly-clumped 
rosettes ; and the leaves of these rosettes are always edged with so 
regularly-placed a chevaux de frise of spiny teeth or bristles as to 
have quite a toothed effect. The flowers in this group are, with one 
conspicuous exception, invariably yellow, and the tuft of fringed- 
looking rosettes has the aspect of some microscopic green Aloe, thanks 
to the finely thorny look of the foliage. In the second section, 
Chrysodraba, there is none of this clumping, none of this thorny look. 
All the species form smooth and loose mats of rosettes extending often 
widely, and the leaves are of soft texture, downy or hairy, but never 
with any bristle-points at the edge or anywhere else. Here again the 
flowers are invariably yellow. The last section is called Leucodraba ; 
the species in this are of much less importance, soft-leaved, and 
invariably with white flowers. 
SECTION I.—AEIZOPSIS. SPINY-LOOKING CLUMPLINGS, 
AND YELLOW FLOWERS 
D, aeizoeides—This is one of the best known and most useful, a 
species of specially wide range, occurring principally in the limestones at 
alpine elevations, throughout the Alps (and always on the rock itself, 
or stony scree), through Sicily, Greece, and Asia Minor. Coming 
northward, it is very rare in Belgium, and its last outpost is on the 
wails of Penard Castle by Swansea. It forms a most neat and hearty 
tuft of bright-green, thorny-looking rosettes, rather large and ample 
for the race, being often nearly an inch and a half across, upstanding, 
incurving and aloe-like ; each one of these in spring sends up a head of 
golden-yellow flowers on a hairless stem of 2 or 3 inches, and succeeded 
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