IBERIS. 
sumptuous and precious garden-plant for general effect that the whole 
race produces—a huge mass to sprawl over any unsightliness and 
shroud it in glory both by summer and winter. 
I. Garrexiana. See under I. sempervirens. 
I. gibraltarica usually daunts the timid with its name and its 
reputation for delicacy, and yet, in a dry warm bank of a South-— 
country garden (or North-country one for that matter), why should 
one be afraid to grow this glorious alien, seeing that, although it is 
chary of seed in our climate, it can be struck like any Pelargonium 
from cuttings? It makes a rather straggling bush, a foot more or less 
in height, set with leathery spoon-shaped or wedge-shaped dark-green 
leaves that are cut into teeth at their tip. The flowers are borne 
from the end of every shoot in June, and are large rounded heads 
of big pink or lilac. By judicious cuttings-in to taste the growth 
could of course be cured of its one fault, and taught no more to 
rove but to remain a neat dome of leafage and blossom. It is very 
rarely seen in cultivation, every other kind of inferior thing being sent 
out under the name. 
I. Jordani, from the mountains of Anatolia, emits many branches 
from its fat neck, and these are not strong enough to stand up, but 
flop round in a star, rising up at the tip to bear their white heads 
of bloom, larger than those of the Candytuft, though smaller than 
those of I. Pruiti. The branches are not more than some 3 or 6 
inches long, and the plant a brilliant one. 
I. jucunda= Aethionema coridifolium. 
I. odorata is probably only annual. It stands close to I. pectinata, 
but is much smaller, and with radiating heads of white fragrant 
blossom borne on hairy-white dwarf tufts, with the leaves cut at the 
tip into several short lobes. (Greece.) 
I. pectinata is a flopping large-leaved thing whose foliage is cut 
into deep sharp teeth ; big whitish flower-heads. (Southern Spain, &c.) 
I. petraea, of gardens, belongs to that good and gifted woman Mrs. 
Harris. See J. saxatilis, L. 
I. petraea (Jord.)=I. Tenoreana, DC., which is too often also the 
I. saxatilis of gardens. 
I. pinnata is a matter of much confusion in nurseries. Countless 
very charming plants are sent out under this name, which all prove 
to be round perennial bushlings with dark fine narrow foliage ; whereas 
the one and only J. pinnata is an annual or biennial species, with all 
the leaves feathered into lobes. There can hardly be any doubt that the 
pretenders to this undesirable name are in reality all developments 
and seedlings of I. sempervirens, q.v. 
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