64 THE CRUCIFORM FAMILY. 



ferences, very well, after having learnt the character 

 of the order, from larger flowers. 



[II. TRIBE. (Alyssineae.) Pouch, with the dissepiment in 

 the broadest diameter (PI. II. 7 p.) valves flat or concave. 



WHITLOW GKASS. Draba. 



Pouch entire, oval or oblong ; valves flat, or slightly con- 

 vex. One-nerved at the base, nerved or veiny upwards. Cells 

 many seeded, seeds, not margined. Filaments simple. Name 

 signifies acrid,' as are the leaves of many of the tribe. 



COMMON WHITLOW GRASS Draba Verna. 

 Flowers-stalks (Scapes,) without hairs ; leaves lance-shaped, 

 somewhat toothed hairy. Petals white, deeply cloven. There 

 is a variety with a swollen pouch.] 



This little plant, may be found in flower, as early 

 as March ; on walls, rocks, and dry hanks. It ever 

 prefers the highest ground ; and may he seen in a 

 church-yard, growing on the top of many a grave, but 

 not on the ground below, though its seeds must be 

 thickly scattered there, each year. It is as constant 

 to the remains of the departed, as the Wall-flower is 

 to its mouldering wall. 



" And thou a resting place, hast found, 



Which none disputes with thee, 

 The silent church-yard's lonely bound, 

 Where sweetly on the hallow'd ground, 

 Thou growest wildly free. 



