IBE RIS TENOREANA. 
tenore’s candy tuft. 
Class. Order. 
TETR ADYNAMIA . SILICULOSA. 
Natural Order. 
CRUCIFERS. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Naples. 
6 inches. 
June, July. 
Perennial. 
in 1822. 
No. 556. 
Iberia, whence has arisen the term Iberis, is an 
ancient name for the country now called Spain. 
The specific name is derived from that of Professor 
Tenore of Naples. He is the author of a Neapoli- 
tan Flora, in four volumes, folio, published in 1811. 
Several species of Iberis are well known, as the 
sempervirens, No. 82; the saxatilis — a similar but 
smaller plant ; and the umbellata, or annual candy 
tuft. These will be remembered as being very or- 
namental, and the Tenoreana is not less so. It 
spreads its humble branches near to the soil, and 
like many individuals of another class, possesses 
more worth and ornament than the majority of 
such as assume a higher aspect. 
It will flourish in any light rich garden earth, but 
the most luxuriantly in sandy peat ; and in this, as its 
flowers continue expanded, they assume a more deci- 
ded change from clear white to a pink hue, than in 
common soil. If these be sown under a south wall 
in autumn, they will produce plants that will flower 
in the following June. If sown in spring, they 
will flower in Autumn : or, it may be increased 
from cuttings, taken in spring or August. 
Don’s Syst. Bot. v. 1. 94. 
