5 2 Cruel feres Ibcris. 



the commonly cultivated annual species, with white, lilac, 

 purple, or crimson flowers. 



3. /. odorata. A pretty odoriferous annual species, a foot 

 or more high, with large corymbs of pretty white flowers 

 towards the end of Spring. A native of Crete. 



4. /. sempervlrens (fig. 39). A shrubby branching ever- 

 green species, about 9 inches or a foot high, with pure white 

 flowers. This -is the ordinary perennial species in cultivation, 

 flowering in May. A native of Candia (hence the trivial name 

 Candytuft), and other parts of Southern Europe. 



5. L Garrexiana. A common plant in cultivation, very near 

 No. 4, and by some considered a variety of it. The flowers, 

 however, are smaller, and the racemes elongate very much in 

 the course of flowering. It is a very hardy kind, a native of 

 the South of Europe, flowering in Spring. 



6. /. semperflorens. Shrubby, and similar to the last, but 

 double its size, and flowering in Autumn and Winter. From 

 the Levant. 



7. J. Gibraltarica. This is a magnificent species, bearing the 

 largest flowers in the genus. It grows about a foot or more 

 high, with oblong-spathulate leaves and pinkish-lilac or nearly 

 white flowers. Native of the South of Spain, and still scarce in 

 this country. 



8. /. Pruiti. The flowers of this nearly equal those of the 

 last-named species, but here they are pure white. A somewhat 

 shrubby plant, rarely exceeding a foot in height, producing an 

 abundance of dark green foliage and compact heads of flowers, 

 which appear in May or June. It is from the South of 

 Europe. 



9. /. Tenoreana. Near Nos. 6 and 7, but hairy all over, 

 and the flowers, white at first, change to a purplish red. South 

 of Europe. 



15. ^THIONBMA. 



A small genus of herbaceous or shrubby perennials, distin- 

 guished by the filaments of its four longer stamens being winged 

 and furnished with a tooth, equal petals, and boat-shaped or 

 spoon-like pods with usually numerous seeds. From the 

 borders of the Mediterranean and Persia. Name from aWcov, 

 bright or flaming, and vr^ia^ a thread, in allusion to the fila* 

 ments of some species. 



