IBERIS. 
I. procumbens is a large lax Iberid with radiating flower-heads from 
the coasts of Portugal ; it is perhaps the same as J. pectinata. 
I. Prwiti belongs to Sicily, Naples, Aragon, &c.—a low species 
forming a central rosette and then sending out below it, all round, 
stems of some 6 inches that rise up to make almost a little bush with 
their close non-radiating heads of rather small white blooms. The 
leaves are fat and oval spoon-shaped, perfectly uncut at the edge, and 
perfectly hairless, like the whole robust and half-shrubby plant ; and 
they draw gradually down into a foot-stalk. 
I. saxatilis, L, (I. petraea of gardens) is a well-known, dark, minute 
jewel with prostrate fleshy twigs of Yew, which are terminated by 
close sugar-loaves of white blossom often tinged with purple, especially 
as they fade. It varies to larger and smaller forms, but the best known 
is the old tiny prostrate type with its shoots so hearty and well- 
furnished-looking in their furry vesture of succulent midnight-green 
foliage so fat and narrow as to be cylindric. This likes to be 
planted in sunny moraine or on a good open bank in light and very 
well-drained soil, where it will ere long make mats of flat and fine 
obscurity of a foot across, each radiating shoot uprising in spring at the 
tip to show its long heads of blossom. It sets fertile seed, but is 
quickly multiplied by cuttings. This species, quite unmistakable 
(once its name is grasped), will be found in the high and stony lime- 
stone places of the Southern hills from the Pyrenees to Sicily. In 
gardens it has had its name mixed up with that myth, I. petraea, so 
that now a chassé-croisé has to be made: what we have long grown 
as I. petraea becomes I. saxatilis, while our former I. saxatilis becomes 
I. petraea (Jord.) on its way to final rest under the prior name of J. 
Tenoreana, DC.—by which, and no other, it is to be henceforth known. 
I. sempervirens suffers more than even the rest from false and over- 
crowded names in the garden, this being the parent of many valuable 
forms—Snow Queens, Little Gems, Grandifloras, Superbas, Plenas, 
Perfections, and various other most delightful and free-flowering little 
neat bushes table-clothed with white in due season, that all derive 
from the beautiful I. sempervirens, which in its type may best be 
thought of as great I. correaefolia divided by half, with stiffer, darker, 
narrower foliage, fringed more or less with hair at the edge, and often 
with a margin of cartilage. It is always a most lovely and lovable 
plant, of the easiest and most imperturbable nature so long as it has 
the sun to dazzle with its sheets of white. And no less beautiful are the 
various forms, that usually are compacter in habit, tighter domes or 
round masses, no less profuse in blossom. In I. sempervirens, also, 
which is found all along the Alps from the Pyrenees to Asia Minor, 
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