ALYSSUM SAXA TILE. 
110CK MADWORT. 
Class. Order. 
TETRADYNAMIA. SILICULOSA. 
Natural Order. 
CRUCIFER 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Candia. 
1 foot. 
April, May. 
Perennial. 
in 1710. 
No. 254. 
The term Alyssum, is deduced from the Greek A, 
which produces a negative or contrary meaning ; 
and lussa, madness; the plant alusson, of the 
Greeks, having been imagined to yield an antidote 
to such state of mind. Saxatile, from the Latin, in 
allusion to its inhabiting rocky places. 
This is a particularly showy plant, and though 
not usually more than a foot in height, its branches 
spread, and generally much exceed that length, on 
account of the trailing position that they assume near 
the root. 
It yields a profusion of flowers of the most bril- 
liant golden hue, which continue in gaiety nearly 
three weeks; and in autumn it is not unusual for it 
again to assume its vernal beauty ; indeed, by short- 
ening the branches, one or two at a time, at inter- 
vals of a month, beginning in March, a partial flow- 
ering may be produced through the whole of the 
summer. 
It does not afford a convenience of division at the 
root; but may, without difficulty, be increased by 
slips or cuttings. These should be rooted under a 
hand-glass in May or June. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v, 4, 94. 
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