IBERIS. 
must be included various local forms often acknowledged as species, 
such as rare I. s. Garrexiana, a little earlier in bloom and a trifle floppier 
in habit, with fewer laxer branches, which may here and there be seen 
in the high and stony fine turf about the Col de Tenda. 
I. serrulata, a perfectly smooth and hairless bushling from the 
Levant, with small oval leaves, daintily saw-toothed along the carti- 
laginous margin, and very pretty heads of white blossom at the tips 
of the shoots. 
I. Spruneri is like a more erect I. Jordani, with closer heads, and 
stems more slender. It lies under suspicion of being an annual. 
I. stylosa=Thlaspi stylosum. 
I. subvelutina makes a dense grey-velvet mound of 6 inches or 
so, on the dry hills of Aranjuez, thick with erect shoots clothed in 
small needle-narrow leaves, and ending in loose-spiked heads of pink 
or white blossom. | 
I. Tenoreana, DC., is I. peiraea (Jord), and sometimes I. « saxatilis”’ 
of gardens, its own name being usually borne by some form of J. 
sempervirens, while the true I. J’enoreana is more often heard of than 
beheld. It is a low-growing tortuous woody-based species in the way 
of I. Pruiti, with thick oval dark leaves tapering to the base, clothing 
weak and rather downy branches of some 5 or 6 inches. The flowers 
are pink or white, borne in very radiating heads. It may at once 
be known among all others of its habit by the fact that the leaves are 
fringed with hairs, and more or less toothed at the tip. All forms of 
I. sempervirens have leaves perfectly entire, and it should be easy to 
detect thus, in any garden-plant labelled J. saxatilis or I. petraea, 
whether the pretender be a form of I. sempervirens or whether it really 
does belong to the much smaller, weaklier, declining I. T’enoreana, 
under one of its invalid names. As for confusion between this and the 
true I. saxatilis, L., there can be no possibility of such a thing, J. 
saxatilis being about a quarter of its size in all parts, to say 
nothing of its perfectly narrow keenly-pointed toothless litile dark leaves, 
cylindric in section and fleshy. JI. Tenoreana isnot common, but ranges 
from the Pyrenees to Sicily ; and should have light sunny soil or good 
moraine, as otherwise it sometimes proves impermanent, and, indeed, 
should always be kept going with cuttings. 
I. Zanardani is a most rare and attractive downy bushling about 
3 or 4 inches high, and leafy all over (instead of, asin I. saxatilis, most 
especially so towards the tips of the shoots). The leaves are notably 
narrow, pointed and fleshy, huddled alternately in a spiral up the 
shoots to the very base of the flower-heads, which are white or whitish. 
(From the island of Lesina off the coast of Dalmatia.) 
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