IBERIDELLA. 
florum and H. t. intermedium. A thing is now being sent out under 
the name of H. “argentewm”’ which is, in truth, no more than this. 
It is not a very good thing, though a most expensive one, such sums 
being asked for it that in return one hopes for at least a good quality 
of Sheffield plate on the foliage, instead of so thin a coat of Britannia 
ware that in a week or two all the leaves, large and oval and too big 
either for the flower or the floundering 6-inch branches, are gone of a 
dull and leaden bald green, revealing the inferior metal on which the 
brief plating was applied in order to elicit gold. Far finer is H. 
pubescens, from damp places down in Granada, which is an erect 
twin to H. tomentosum, but with flowers of twice the size and show. 
H. trichocaulon may only be seen in the rocks on the south side of 
Cretan Ida. It is a lovely little jewel with blossoms as large as in 
our own H. perforatum, but carried lonely and erect (sometimes in a 
head) on many dainty stems of only 4 or 5 inches, set with pairs of 
oblong leaves, perfectly smooth and green, sitting close upon the stalks. 
H. tymphresteum is a good species, quite near H. hyssopifolium 
callithyrsum—a bushy tuft of branches with fine blue-grey foliage of 
which the lower leaves hardly roll at all at the edge, while the upper 
ones are specially huddled and involved on the barren shoots, and 
the flowers are of special brilliance in their loose spires on the 9-inch 
sprays. (Suspiciously close, indeed, to H. hyssopifolium.) 
H. uniflorum makes a minute prostrate tuft in the way of a minia- 
ture H. Apollinis or H. rhodopeum. Its little fine shoots are not more 
than 2 or 3 inches long, set with tiny blunt leaves, and each producing 
one solitary golden star at the tip. (From the schistose region of 
Anemas in Lycaonia.) 
There are, of course, numberless more St. John’s-worts, and many 
more of merit, most especially in the larger and shrubbier sections of 
the race, which have not here been touched at all. But with regard 
to the smaller and choicer species, Europe, America, and the Levant 
have here not grudged us of their best. 
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Iberidella. See Thiaspi rotundifolium. 
Ibéris.—In no race does worse confusion rage than among the 
Iberids, the muddle here being as much the fault of the Iberids them- 
selves as of anyone else; for they are not content with growing far 
and wide, and seeding copiously in any sunny slope of well-drained 
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