DRABA. 
whereas the description of the genuine Draba sounds as if the result 
should be more pleasing. For it ought to be a running plant with 
rather pointed leathery leaves, of which the lower ones make rosettes 
on the ground, and are obovate, and with horny toothings, bristlish 
and fringed with hairs, while those on the stems are oblong and 
smoother. The flowers are large, white, and handsome, with notched 
petals, carried in heads at the top of leafy stems of a few inches. This 
species (if species it is) comes from sunny stone-slopes of Dalmatia, 
and perhaps is but an old and improved rendering of A. Scopoliana 
after all. 
SOME NEW-WORLD DRABAS, WITHOUT RESPECT 
TO GROUPING 
D. alyssoeides—Quite a small bush with big white flowers. 
(Chimborazo.) 
D. andina, from the high barrens. Very dense, the little trunks 
being huddled with the dead leaves of many years. The stiff pointed 
fringed leaves of the season overlap, and are clothed in stellar down, 
but the stems are smooth and about 3 inches or so in height, carrying 
a great number of blossoms passing from pale yellow to white. 
D. aretioeides, a minute dense tuffet from the Colombian Andes, 
as is also D. obovata. 
D. cheiranthoeides has the same flower as Cheiranthus ochroleucus, 
with very long narrow leaves at the base, irregularly toothed. (Sierra 
Nevada.) 
D. chrysantha, from New Mexico, is a fine half-prostrate thing, with 
narrow leaves more or less toothed, and more or less fringed. The 
stems are some 2 to 6 inches high, bearing big golden blooms in open 
loose spikes. 
D. densifolia makes a neat close tuft, and sends up rather woolly 
stems of some two and a half inches, carrying smallish yellow stars. 
D. depressa has much the same ways as D. aretioeides. It makesa 
depressed mat of prostrate shoots, clothed closely in little oval spoon- 
shaped leaves, rounded at the tip, all forming a tight mass and all 
clothed in a hoary-grey coat. This mat is produced at 17,000 feet 
on Chimborazo, and the flowers are pale yellow in heads (D. cryptantha 
has flowers a third of these in size). 
D. grandiflora has a promising name, the excuse for which may at 
present be best ascertained about 17,000 feet up on Chimborazo. 
D. Helleriana; rather firm small leaves and stout erect branches 
with more leaves sitting close to them. Pods twisted. 
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