This extremely rare plant has been introduced to our gar- 
dens very recently from Germany, and in the spring of the pre- 
sent year has produced flowers, both in our own garden and in 
that of Edinburgh. These individuals, however, being dwarf- 
ish, and considerably smaller than the wild specimens which I 
have received through my kind friend Dr Hornschuch, I 
have represented the figure of the natural size, from one in my 
herbarium, and the parts of fructification from garden plants. 
Its native country is the Alps of Carinthia and Salzburg, 
where it has been found by Messrs Sternbeeg and Hoppe. 
By them the genus Braya was established, in a work to which, 
unfortunately, I have at this time no access. De Candolle 
was not acquainted with the perfect seeds : hence he has, in 
his Systema Vegetahilium, referred this genus to a division 
having the cotyledons accumbent. This character alone, suf- 
fices to remove Braya from Arabis, as also from Mr Brown's 
Parraya, while from Platypetalum it may be known by its 
longer, linear seedvessel, and from Eutrema by the cylindrical, 
not ancipitate, siliqua. Two other species are known to us, 
the B. glahrella of Richardson, and the B. arctica, which 
I first established in the yet unedited Appendix to Captain 
Parry's second voyage. 
Fig. 1. Flower. Fig. 2. Flower from which the petals are removed. Fig. 3. 
Petal. Fig. 4. Stamen and pistil. Fig. 5. Anther. Fig. 6. Pollen. 
Figs. 7- and 8. Pistils. Fig. p. Capsule {nat. size.) Fig. 10, Capsule 
bursting. Fig. 11. Capsule, with one valve removed, to shew the ar- 
rangement of the seeds. Fig. 12. Portion of a capsule, to shew the fis- 
sure in the dissepiment. Fig. 13. Hairs of the valves of the capsule. 
Fig. 14. Side view of the Embryo. Fig. 15. Front view of the embryo. 
All hit Fig. 9. more or less magnified. 
