DRABA. 
into vivid shining rosettes at the top of columns of dead ones, the 
leaves being short and keeled as in a Hypnum, and the whole forming 
into a neat cushion of an inch high or so, and 4 or 5 inches across. The 
blossoms are vivid, too, in their display of intense pure golden-yellow ; 
the variety D. r. pulvinaris is tighter still, while D. r. bryoeides even 
outdoes it in the minute compactness of its huddled foliage, making 
globular rosettes like some miniature of Saxifraga bryoeides. (All these 
come from the rocks of Caucasus and Armenia.) 
D. Sauteri is a lime-loving species confined to rock-crevices in the 
Alps of Salzburg, whence it radiates into the outskirts of the Bavarian 
mountains on the one hand and into those of upper Styria on the 
other (Watzmann, Tannengebirge, &c.). It is a most strange alien 
to find in this group, being perfectly slackened and loose in habit, 
with short, loose, narrow, oval-pointed leaves, arranged in the feeblest 
apology for a rosette, rather suggesting tufts and small clusters 
ramifying here and there, and densely fringed at the edge. The 
few flowers are yellow, with oval petals, not making any fine effect 
above the mass of leafage on their stems of an inch or less. 
D. scabra also stands apart from the group to which it belongs. 
For it is perfectly hairless all over, and has not even any of the 
section’s bristly spines up the edges of the leaves. However, to 
make up, they are very rough along the edge, alike to the eye and to 
the touch. Otherwise the plant is like a larger and rather looser D. o. 
bruniaefolia. 
D. Zahlbriickneri=D. Hoppeana, q.v. 
D. Zapateri. See under D. Dedeana. 
SECTION II.CHRYSODRABA. LOOSER, SOFTER HABIT 
AND NO SPINY TEETH AT ALL TO THE LEAVES. 
FLOWERS INVARIABLY YELLOW 
D. acaulis —A most lovely little fluffet, of minute close habit, like 
an Androsace helvetica with the leaves of Eritrichium, reduced indeed 
in size, but clothed in the same glistering soft silver coat. The beauty 
of the tiny silken cushion is such that it can hardly be added to even 
by the almost stemless heads of two or three golden flowers appearing 
in spring all over the wee mass, which is never more than 3 or 4 inches 
across at the outside, so that its preciousness may be appreciated ; and 
that appreciation should be shown in the nice choice of a specially 
precious place, and protection in winter, perhaps, against incessant 
wet. (rom high rocky places of the Cilician Taurus.) 
D. Adami is hispid-hairy all over, and has smaller yellow flowers. 
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