DRABA. 
D. velutina is a beautiful species from Techdagh in Armenia, after 
the whole style of D. mollissima, but with larger leaves, not packed 
and compiled on columns of dead, while the flowers are larger too, and 
of intense golden-yellow. 
D. vesicaria, in the clefts of the summit of Lebanon, is a compact 
tuffet with the foliage overlapping all the way up the stems. When the 
yellow flowers are gone the pod swells into a great puffed hairy bladder. 
SECTION III.—LEUCODRABA. FLOWERS INVARIABLY 
WHITE 
This group consists of small alpine plants, for the most part quite 
worthless, and only to be rehearsed lest their undescribed names should 
some day lead the innocent into temptation (as, for instance, with 
D. gigas and Arabis karduchorum). Of such condemnation, then, are 
D. carinthiaca, with the closely allied D. Wahlenbergi and D. incana, 
D. carinthiaca sometimes appearing also as D. nivalis, and also as 
D. Johannis, in honour of some bygone Archduke of Austria, in- 
sufficiently honoured, indeed, in a weed so dowdy and insignificant. 
D. tomentosa, however, is rather prettier, forming tufts as whitely 
woolly as those of Androsace imbricata, and often accompanying them 
in the high hot granite chinks of the South. The white flowers, too, 
on their 2- to 3-inch stems, are quite visible to the naked eye, but the 
plant has an impermanent difficult look, promising exactions in the 
way of cultural care far beyond any merit of its face-value. D. 
stellata, from the limestone regions, is frailer, not woolly, with shorter 
stems, and therefore rather larger-seeming blossom; this might be 
worth the trouble of admitting. In the high granites, too, lives 
D. flatnitzensis, making woody trunks, crowned with tufts of almost 
smooth little leaves, fringed at the edge, with many little stems 
carrying a certain number of little white flowers, of no gay brilliance, 
indeed, but neat and dwarf and profuse. But DD. frigida, confusa 
tibetica, helvetica, lapponica, androsacea (forms, probably of D. 
flatnitzensis, if not mere synonyms), lasiophylla, siliqguosa (a species 
that most likely includes D. carinthiaca and all its large misty follow- 
ing, unnecessarily and minutely differentiated), ambigua, hirta, sub- 
amplexicaulis, stylosa, ramosissima, arabisans, &c., all these indeed 
are a long way past praying for, and would be better by the prudent 
prayed against. 
Doubt, however, hangs round the name of D. ciliata, which has 
been much praised. Yet the D. ciliata of gardens is always either 
Arabis Scopoliana, or some other equally valueless Cruciferous weed, 
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