DRA'BA AIZOI'DES. 
AIZOON-LIKE DRABA. 
Class. 
TETR ADYNAMIA. 
Natural Order. 
CRUCIFER S.. 
Order. 
SILICULOSA. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Inhabits 
Wales. 
3 inches. 
Feb. April. 
Perennial. 
Rocks. 
No. 844. 
The name, Draba,is of Greek origin, signifying 
acrid ; a quality that is not prevalent in the genus 
which now bears the name. The similarity of this 
plant to the Aizoon, has obtained for it the specific 
name of aizoides. The Draba has been called 
Whitlow Grass; and it is remarked by Galen, that 
Paronychia, or Whitlow Grass, has the property 
of healing whitlows; but what he meant by Paro- 
nychia is now a riddle difficult of solution. 
The species of Draba here figured, is an English, 
or rather Welsh, plant ; having been found on the 
walls of a castle in that little peninsula of Glamor- 
ganshire, known as Gowerland, and, we believe, 
nowhere else; just as if it had been an ally of 
Eveon ap Collwyn, against the tyrant Jestin ap 
Gurgant, and continued still to occupied a castle 
as a prize for its prowess. 
A castle wall being its chosen residence, we 
should afford it a dry place, on artificial rock-work, 
where, in spring, it will be gay, and at all other 
times appear a neat tuft of pale-green foliage, 
forming little compound rosettes, held together by 
very slender stems. 
Don’s Syst. Bot. 1, 182. 
