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ALPINE FLOWERS FOR GARDENS 



[PART II. 



Mountains of Persia. There is a variety 

 of this species, called ovalifolium, with 

 broader ovate-oblong leaves. It is a 

 native of Armenia. 



-ffithionema sagi tt at um. Leaves, 

 rigid, many-nerved, oblong, or lanceolate, 

 deeply hastate at the base, with acute lobes ; 

 flowers, rather large, white ; seed-vessel, 

 oblong, narrowed at the base. Persia. 



JE. tenue heterophyllum and ccespitosum 

 are dwarf, densely-tufted alpine species, 

 with small white or pink flowers. The 

 only Indian species (JE. Andersoni) also 

 belongs to this group. It is a diminutive 

 plant, with white or pink flowers. 



-33. rubescens. Leaves, alternate, obo- 

 vate ; flowers, large, rose : seed-vessel, 

 elliptical, tapering at both ends. A native 

 of the alpine summits of the Sicilian 

 Taurus, etc., at an elevation of 11,800 

 feet. This is a very showy species. 



JE. bourgsei. Leaves, opposite, obo- 

 vate ; flowers, large, rose ; seed-vessel, 

 oblong-elliptical, rounded at both ends. 

 Found in stony places in the alpine 

 region of Mount Akdagh, Syria. Differs 

 chiefly from the last in its opposite leaves. 



.33. chlorsefolium (Iberis of Sibthorp 

 and Smith). Leaves slightly papillose and 

 scabrid at the margin ; flowers rather 

 large ; petals, obovate, rose, much longer 

 than the calyx. A native of Asia Minor. 



JE. rotundifolium. Very near JE. 

 oppositifolium, differing chiefly in the 

 shape of the seed-vessel, and the panicle 

 being free instead of adnate to the seed. 

 A native of stony places in the Western 

 Caucasus. This is quite different from 

 Iberidella rotundifolia. 



JE. thesiifolium. Stems, tall, slender, 

 and twiggy ; leaves, long, narrow, lanceo- 

 late, upper ones, acute ; flowers in an 

 elongating raceme pink. A native of 

 stony places in the mountains of Cappa- 

 docia. It grows about 18 inches high, 

 has long narrow leaves, and large flesh- 

 coloured flowers, elegantly marked with 

 purple. 



JE. grandiflorum. Branches, long, 

 slender, simple, about 1 foot high ; leaves, 

 oblong-linear, rather obtuse ; flowers, 

 purple, as large as those of Arabis alpina; 

 petals, four times as long as the sepals. 



A native of Mount Elbrus in North 

 Persia ; discovered by Hohenacker in 

 1843, and subsequently collected by 

 Haussknecht, in Kurdistan, at an eleva- 

 tion of 4000 feet in 1857. 



^Ithionema pulchellum (JE. coridi* 

 folium of Botanic Gardens, not of De 

 Candolle). Similar to the last, of which it 

 was formerly considered a variety ; but it 

 is a more diffuse plant, having smaller 

 flowers, the petals being about two and a 

 half times as long as the sepals. Armenia, 

 Persia, and Kurdistan. 



JE. membranaceum. Stems, erect, 

 simple, about 6 inches high ; leaves, 

 oblong-linear, smaller than those of the 

 two preceding. The seed-vessel of these 

 three species is very broadly winged, and 

 the wings are entire, or very slightly 

 toothed, at the margin. A native of 

 Persia ; formerly figured in Sweet's 

 "Flower Garden." 



JE. diastrophis (Diastrophis cristata). 

 In habit, foliage, and flower, this comes 

 very near to JE. pulchellum, but it differs 

 from that and others of this sub-section 

 in its very long fruiting racemes and 

 small seed-vessel, with elegantly toothed 

 wings. It is a native of Russian Armenia, 

 and was in cultivation at Dorpat in 1841, 

 and is now in cultivation at Exeter, Mr 

 Veitch's. 



JE. armenum. This, judging from 

 dried specimens, although smaller-flowered 

 than its immediate allies, must be a very 

 pretty species when growing. It is of 

 dwarfer (3 or 4 inches high), more diffuse 

 habit, with more leafy stems and dense 

 spikes of small purplish rose-flowers ; 

 seed-vessel, crenate. It inhabits the 

 mountains of Armenia, and Cappadocia, 

 growing in stony places. 



JE. coridifolium. Stems, numerous, 

 thick, only a few inches high ; leaves, 

 crowded, short, linear-oblong, or linear- 

 obtuse, or somewhat acute ; flowers, large, 

 but not equalling those of JE. grandi- 

 florum; seed-vessel, boat-shaped. This 

 handsome species is a native of the chalky 

 summits of the Lebanon and Taurus. 



JE. capitatum. This species, of about 

 the same stature as the last, but with 

 longer stems and more scattered leaves, 



