Draba.] crvcivfaim. 



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XII. KoNiGA, Adans. Koniga. 



"Pouch subovate; valves nearly plane; cells 1-ovuled and 

 1-seeded; seed-stalks with their base adnate to the dissepiment. 

 Calyx patent. Petals entire (white). Hypogynous glands 8 ! 

 Filaments simple." — Br. Fl. 



*1. K. maritima, E. Br. Sea-side Koniga. Sweet Alyssum, 

 Hort. Br. Fl. p. 30. Alyssum, Willd. : E. B. t. 1739. Cly- 

 peola, L. 



Naturalized occasionally on walls, cliffs, and waste ground near the sea, from 

 adjoining gardens. FL August, September. If. 

 E. J/crf.— [Morton Shute, Dr. Bell-Salter, Edrs.] 

 W. Med. — In a lane at West Cowes. 



XIII. Deaba, Linn. Whitlow-grass. 

 " Pouch or pod entire, oval or oblong ; valves plane or slightly 

 convex, 1-nervedr at the base, nerved or veiny upwards ; cells 

 many-seeded. Seeds not mareiaed. Filaments simple." — Br. 

 Fl. 



1. D. vcrna, L. Common Whitlow-grass. Scapes leafless, 

 petals deeply cloven, leaves somewhat toothed hairy. Br. Fl. p. 

 30. E. B. ix. t. 586. 



Var. a. Leaves lanceolate, tapering into the petiole. 



Var. 0. Leaves very broad. D. verna, var. Krockm, Andrz., Reichh. Iconog. 

 xii. t. 12, fig. 4234. 



On walls, banks, dry pastures and waste ground, abundantly. Fl. March, 

 April. 0. 



On the Dover, Byde. St. Helen's spit, &c., abundantly. 



a. The Dover, on an embankment, with ^. 



Herb extremely variable in size and luxuriance, often barely an inch high, with 

 a single flower-stalk, at other times 4 or 5 inches and with very numerous scapes. 

 Root very slender, whitish, with a few thready fibres. Leaves spreading in a radi- 

 cal tuft, very variable in breadth, from linear-lanceolate to very broadly ovate, 

 tapering, gradually or suddenly contracted into the petiole, with every intermedi- 

 ate gradation between these extremes, somewhat fleshy and shining, clothed with 

 a pretty copious forked or starry pubescence, especially on the upper side and 

 along their edges, and mostly having a few shallow distant teeth towards their 

 points. Scapes round, simple, hairy below, smooth above, sometimes hairy or 

 smooth throughout, terminating in a corymbose cluster of small white flowers on 

 pedicels greatly lengthened after the blossoms are past. Sepals roundish ovate, 

 concave, obtuse, purplish, with white membranous borders, sometimes a little 

 hairy. Petals much longer than the calyx, inversely heart-shaped, cloven half 

 way down, their claws greenish. Stamens enlarged at the base, with a cellular 

 gibbosity on their upper side. Hypogynous glands small, green, in pairs, one on 

 each side the two soMt&vy filaments, which are all nearly equal in length, though 

 those just mentioned appear shorter, from curving outwards at their base. Ger~ 

 men ovate, compressed. /S<yfe scarcely any ; sii^jna broad, flat. PomcA elliptical 

 or ovate-oblong, smooth, much compressed (sometimes in alpine situations swollen. 

 Hook.), brownish when ripe, tipped with the permanent stigma. Seeds numerous, 

 oval, pale brown, warted. 



I do not find any figure of the broad-leaved var. The very indifferent one of 

 Krocker, Sil. ii. tab. 28, referred to by Reichenbach in Fl. Germ, enum., is not at 

 all expressive of our 0. 



One of the earliest plants that greet the eye in spring, with its small, white, but 



