IBERIS. 
deep soil, but they must needs interbreed with each other, till there is 
now a number of garden-species with which there is no possibility of 
coping. Enough, then, if a little clearance can be made among the 
more or less perennial species, and some of them restored to the right 
names they have too long exchanged with others. Such, then, will 
be the Iberids here unravelled ; all of which, in soil that is light, and 
a situation that is sunny and well-drained, will continue easily thriving 
for many years—flowering as a rule in early summer, but in many cases 
spasmodically on through the year, and especially in winter. Almost - 
all the species seed with infidelity and profusion, and all root so readily 
that almost any shoot broken off and stuck into almost any ground 
will make a plant within the month. 
I. Bernardiana is a pink annual, confined to the Pyrenees, and often 
known by the alternative name of J, Bubanit. 
I. cappadocica. See under Pitilotrichum cappadocicum, or when 
sated with the music of this name, under Schivereckia iberidea. 
I. conferta is a very dense tuft of 3 inches high, woody at the base, 
and with rosettes of smooth narrow leaves, and naked flower-stems 
carrying heads of white blossom. (A lovely rarity from great eleva- 
tions in the Serra da Estrella of Portugal.) 
I. contracta makes a prostrate weakling mass of shoots, clad in 
short and narrow foliage (the lowest rather inclined to have teeth) 
and ending in widely-radiating starry heads of pink or purple blossom. 
It is a species nearly related to I. gibraliarica, and seeks the low dry 
places of Algarve in Portugal. 
I. corifolia, with which it is often confused, is quite a different 
thing—a small and precious jewel standing close to J. sazatilis ; 
not the false “J. saxatilis”’ of gardens, but the true I. sazatilis, 
L.—that minute and prostrate plant with yew-like fleshy dark 
leaves which a few fortunate owners still know as J. “ petraea.” In 
all these points, habit, density, prostration, and fine narrowness of 
night-dark little leaf, I. corifolia follows its model closely, but with 
the one difference that the leaves are fringed with hairs. 
I. correaefolia, on the contrary, is the species that makes such enor- 
mous masses in all our gardens, dense with long glossy dark-green leaves 
clustering towards the ends of the long fleshy branches that are more 
bare below, and form into a spreading flopping bush a couple of yards 
or more across, and some 8 inches high or less, with the sombre beauti- 
ful leafage hidden from sight in May by the great innumerable heads 
of large snow-white flowers. This beauty is too often spoken of as J. 
sempervirens or as I. corifolia, Iberids with which it has no relationship 
whatever, these being smaller and choicer, but this by far the most 
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