MUSTARD FAMILY 



tuft with colored flowers, the colors being more numerous and 

 better fixed than in any other species, and a well-grown blooming 

 bed gives wonderful variations in tone of rose-purple melting 

 through pinks and flesh into white as one little head stands close 

 to another. 



The Bitter Candytuft, Iberis amhra, is the white annual species 

 generally grown in gardens. This is a small plant six to twelve 

 inches high with erect branching stems. The flowers are white, 

 sometimes purplish, borne in a cluster which begins as a corymb 

 and ends as a raceme. In general effect the flowers differ very 

 little from those of Iheris umbellata and the species appears both 

 in variants and hybrids. 



The Evergreen Candytuft, Iberis sempgrvirens, a native of 

 Crete, is a delightful little creature that spreads its shrubby stems 

 in a thick mat over the ground and blooms in early April in com- 

 pany with the Moss Pink, Phlox subulata. The two make most 

 beautiful borders or smiling beds of early flowers. This is the 

 most robust of the perennial species. 



SWEET ALYSSUM 



Al^ssum maritimum. 



Alyssum, Greek, of unknown signification. 



A low, spreading annual, much used for borders, and bearing an abun- 

 dance of white flowers during the entire summer. 



Stem. — Bushy, low, spreading. 



Leaves. — Alternate, linear, or lanceolate, tapering at the base. 

 Flowers. — Crucifers,' sometimes double, small, white, fragrant; borne 

 in racemes which elongate as the flowers mature. 

 Siliques.— Tiny pointed spheres, containing one or two seeds. 



Sweet Alyssum bears all the marks of its gens. The stem is 

 four-angled; the juice is bitmg; the leaves are alternate; the in- 

 florescence begins as a corymb and ends as a raceme; the corolla 

 is a cross. If one looks down upon and into the Alyssum flower- 



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