DRABA. 
D. Lacaita. See under D. Athoa; though perhaps it has a right 
to stand alone. 
D, Loiseleurit comes not far away from D. hispanica, but differs in 
its larger, shorter leaves, while its rosettes and masses are looser and 
bigger-leaved, and more open than in D. Dedeana ; from D. olympica 
it emerges distinct in its broader foliage and flowers of paler yellow ; 
in short, the picture presents a really fine and stalwart lemon-yellow- 
flowered cushion after the fashion of D. aeizoeides, but with swollen 
pods and wide masses, which are confined entirely to the high places 
of Cinto, Rotondo, and others of the Corsican mountains (D. corsica, 
Jord., D. cuspidata, Arc.). 
D. longirostra is equally restricted, occupying rock-crevices in the 
mountains of Dalmatia and Montenegro. This is a small neat species, 
making a clump suggestive of Petrocallis, with few-flowered heads of 
yellow, on stems perhaps an inch and a half above the cushion of tidy 
little green and spinous-looking rosettes. 
D. Mawi. See under D. Dedeana. 
D. natolica has blooms of intense golden-yellow, and the thorny- 
looking clumps are all clad in soft-spreading down, while on the pods 
also there are starry hairs. (Alps of Cappadocia, Anatolia, &c.) 
D. olympica is a very variable species and very valuable in all its 
forms. It makes wide mats and masses, but is otherwise nearest to 
D. cuspidata, yet with narrower foliage and flowers of perhaps an 
intenser golden-yellow. The swollen pods are notably small for the 
mass, which hangs in the rocks all over Asia Minor, Syria, &c. Its 
varieties are of the most diverse; D. o. bruniaefolia is well known in 
gardens, a plant of looser habit, and, like D. Hoppeana, preferring the 
open ground on the mountains, as D. olympica and D. aeizoeides cling 
to the rocks ; D.o. hetericoma is a smaller neat thing, with most brilliant 
blossoms and great attractiveness ; and yet others are D. o. ericaefolia 
and D. o. diversifolia. 
D. oxycarpa makes little dense masses, with hardly any stems, and 
pointed pods, in the cliffs of Hermon, and on Lebanon above the 
Cedars. 
D. parnassica, a rare species from the upper rocks of Parnassus, is 
suggestive of a much smaller and tighter D. hispanica, but so much 
smaller as to be only a tiny tuft or dense cushion, from which spring 
stems of 1 or 2 inches, carrying four or five golden flowers in a loose 
radiating head, to be followed by a little less radiating head of flattened 
pods (not rounded and swelling) beset with spreading hairs. 
D. rigida is D. dicranoeides (Boiss. and Huet.), a tidy treasure of 
special beauty and brilliance, with minute spinous-edged leaves packed 
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