HELIOPHILA ARABOI'DES. 
ARABIS-LIKE HELIOPHILA. 
Class. 
TETRADYNAMIA. 
Natural Order. 
CRUCIFERS. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
Cape G. H. 
9 inches. 
June, July. 
Annual. 
in 1768. 
No. 522. 
The Greek helios, the sun; and phileo, to love, 
are compounded as a name for the present genus. 
We are not aware of the name being peculiarly 
characteristic of this, any more than it may be of a 
hundred other, genera. De Candolle has made 
this species a variety only of Heliophila pilosa. 
This pretty little plant has long been known to 
our botanists, as an early-flowering unobtrusive an- 
nual. It is equally suited to the decoration of the 
garden, in distinct masses; or, for mingling with 
other low herbaceous plants in the varied parterre. 
Early-flowering annuals are advantageous or dis- 
advantageous, just in proportion as the cultivator 
happens to be an adept in meeting the changing 
circumstances of his garden. If sown early, their 
blossoms will have faded away, and nothing will re- 
main to tell of their beauty when summer has ad- 
vanced to its height. If the vacuity be not re-ten- 
anted, the loss will be evident to every visitor of taste, 
and the desolate spaces, or the remnant of a faded 
plant, may give rise to sympathies of a nature 
not intended to be excited in the flower garden. 
They may call to mind the sentiments of the poet : 
Order. 
SILIQUOSA. 
