232 ALPINE FLOWERS. Part II. 



than the other common white kinds. Both the individual flowers 

 and the corymb are larger than in the other species, and the 

 blooms stand forth more boldly and distinctly from the smooth 

 dark-green leaves. It is an invaluable hafdy plant, and par- 

 ticularly useful in consequence of coming into full beauty about 

 the end of May or beginning of June, when the other kinds are 

 fading away. It is indispensable for rockwork, the mixed 

 border, the spring garden, and may also be naturalised with 

 good effect in bare rocky places. It is particularly well suited 

 for planting on the margin of choice shrubberies, bringing them 

 neatly down to the grass line, and may also be used as an 

 edging to beds. Of its native country we know nothing ; but 

 nly friend Mr. Jennings, now of the Wellington Nurseries, in- 

 formed me that it was raised in, and first sent out from, the 

 botanic garden at Bury St. Edmunds, and it is probably a 

 hybrid. Mr. J. G. Baker considers it to come nearest to /. 

 Pruiti, of the Nebrode Mountains, in Sicily. Its native country, 

 like its name, is not certainly known. Readily increased by 

 cuttings, and also by seeds. 



IBEEIS CilSRhUZABlGK.— Gibraltar Candytuft. 



This kind has hitherto been but very rarely cultivated ; indeed, 

 it was lost to our gardens tiU recently sent from Guernsey by 

 Mr. Wolsey, who found it in some cottage garden there. It is 

 larger in all its parts than the other cultivated kinds, has oblong 

 spoon-shaped leaves, nearly two inches long by half an inch or 

 more wide, and distinctly toothed; the large flowers, often reddish 

 lilac, being arranged in low close heads, and appearing in 

 spring and early summer. It is an ornamental species, but will 

 never rival the well-known white border kinds. I am doubt- 

 ful of its hardiness, and should advise its being wintered in pits 

 or frames till sufficiently abundant to be tried in the open air, 

 but am informed that it has stood without injury this last, severe, 

 winter at York. It should be planted on sunny spots on rock- 

 work or banks. A native of the South of Spain ; increased by 

 seeds and cuttings. 



IBEEIS TENOEEANA.— r^«(jr«'j Candytuft. 

 A NEAT species, with toothed leaves, which, with the stems, are 

 hairy, and a profusion of white flowers changing to purple. As 



