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refemblance to thofe of the common candy-tuft, No. 8. 
but when they blow in perfection they are ufually twice 
as large ; hence they are highly ornamental in the green- 
houle, early in the lpring, which is the time of their ap¬ 
pearing. Native of Spain. 
5. Iberis faxatilis, or rock candy-tuft: fuffrutefeent, 
leaves lanceolate-linear, flefliy, acute, quite entire, ciliate. 
Root woody, hard, twilled, and large. Stems, diffuled, nu¬ 
merous, branched at the bafe, fcarred with fallen branches 
and leaves, three or four inches high. Native of the fouth 
of France and Italy. It varies with leaves almoll flat, 
and little if at all ciliated. 
6. Iberis rotundifolia, or round-leaved candy-tuft: her¬ 
baceous, leaves ovate, ftem-leaves embracing, even, juicy. 
Native of Swiflerland, Carniola, fouth of France, Italy, 
Silefia; flowers from May to July. This and all the pre¬ 
ceding lorts are perennial; the following are annual, ex¬ 
cept perhaps the next, which feems to be perennial. 
7. Iberis cepeasfolia, or onion-leaved candy-tuft : her¬ 
baceous, leaves ovate, ftem-leaves feflile, even, juicy. Root 
long, round, (lender, fungous, branched, creeping ob¬ 
liquely, reddilh violet coloured on the outfule. Stems fe- 
verah fcarcely half a (pan in height, all prollrate, with the 
flowering tops curved upwards; they are fmooth, round, 
tinged with reddilh violet, leafy. Leaves copious, Mat¬ 
tered, flefliy, very fmooth, deep green, with fometimes. a 
glaucous hue, but lefs than in the preceding. The flowers 
have the fame pleafant fmell with thole of the preceding, 
which it is llrange no author has obferved. Seeds two, 
rufous, in each cell. Native of Carinthia, flowering at 
the-beginning of May. 
8. Iberis umbellata, or purple candy-tuft: herbaceous, 
leaves lanceolate, acuminate; the lower ferrate, the upper 
quite entire. .The root of common purple candy-tuft is 
annual, white, oblong,.fufiform; Item upright, leafy, half 
a foot or' a /pan to a foot in height, fubangular, green, 
fmooth, branching. Leaves frequent, alternate, lanceo¬ 
late, acuminate, fmooth. Flowers in a hemifpherical co¬ 
rymb on peduncles half an inch in,length ; the outer pe¬ 
tals more than twice as large as the inner ones. Seeds 
folitary, ovate, flatted, a little beaked near the umbilicus, 
ferruginous-rufefeent. Native of the fouth pf Europe. 
Cultivated.in 1596 by Gerarde. 
The ufual colour of the flowers is a pale purple ; but 
there is one variety with bright purple, and another with 
•white, flowers ; the latter however is feldom Men in our 
gardens, the feeds of the amara being commonly fublti- 
tuted for it. It flowers in June and July, and maybe 
continued in fucceflion till autumn. 
9. Iberis amara, or white candy-tuft: herbaceous, 
leaves lanceolate, acute, fomewhat toothed ; flowers in ra¬ 
cemes. Linnaeus fays that the white candy-tuft refembles 
the preceding very much, only it is fmaller. It is how¬ 
ever lufficiently dillindt in feveral circumftances. The 
Item (even or eight inches high, pubefeeht, fomewhat 
rugged, branched ; branches diffufed, alternate, the lower 
ones fometimes oppofite, not rifing all to the fame height. 
Leaves linear-lanceclate, blunt, feflile, decurrent, bright 
green, thickilh, fmooth, the lower ones ferrate, the 
relt toothletted, efpecially in front, or with a tooth or two 
on each fide. Flowers white in a terminating fpike-like 
raceme; or rather, in a corymb lengthening into a raceme 
as the inflorefcence advances. Calyx ere cl. The two 
outer petals double the length of the two inner ones. Si- 
licles rounder and a little fmaller than in the preceding. 
The feeds are more elliptic, flatted like a lens, paler, and 
furrounded with a very narrow rim of a deeper colour. 
Native of Swiflerland, Germany, Au{lria, fouth of France, 
and England. In Oxfordlhire about Henley, Nettlebed., 
and Mungewell; in Berkfhire about Wallingford Com¬ 
mon; but not mentioned as wild in England by any of 
our old writers. 
10. Iberis linifolia, or flax-leaved candy-tuft: herba¬ 
ceous, leaves linear, quite entire j Item-leaves ferrate, ftem 
panicled, corymbs hemifpherical. Native of Spain, Por¬ 
tugal, and Provence ; flowers in July, and is annual. 
11. Iberis odorata, or fweet-feented candy tuft: her¬ 
baceous, leaves linear, widening at top and ferrate. This 
feldom grows fo large as the purple candy-tuft, and the 
flowers are much fmaller, but have an agreeable odour. 
The flowers are in dole corymbs, and of a fnowy white¬ 
ned. Native of the mountains near Geneva. 
ii. Iberis Arabica, or Arabian candy-tuft: herbaceous,- 
leaves ovate, fmooth, veinlefs, quite entire, filicles two- 
lobed at the bale and tip. Native of Arabia and Cappa¬ 
docia. 
13. Iberis nudicaulis, naked-llalked candy-tuft, or rock- 
crefs: herbaceous, leaves finuate, llem naked Ample. 
Stems from two to four inches in height, numerous, de¬ 
cumbent when young, rifing as they advance, and finally 
upright; Ample, round and fmooth ; naked, or with one, 
two, or three, feflile leaves below the middle. Flowers, 
(mail, white, and without feent. The more luxuriant the 
plant, the more it is difpofed to produce leaves on the 
llem ; in this (late the lower ones are divided into three 
or five fegments, but they are very minute, and appear in 
May and June ; the feed-veffels, which are large in pro¬ 
portion to the plant, fucceed in July. Native of molt 
parts of Europe, in dry and barren foils. With us, near 
London fparingly ; as on Hounflow-heat-h, Putney and 
Barnes commons, near Hampton-courl and Richmond ; 
Blackheath by the road from Greenwich to I.ewilham ; 
Ilford in Effex; near Gamlingay in Cambridgefhire; Bun¬ 
gay in Suffolk, Norwich; Penlham in'“Worcellerlhire; 
Hamerliill near Salop ; Nottingham-park ; Little Creaton 
in Northamptonlhire ; between Corby Caltle and Carlille ; 
and in Scotland. 
14. Iberis pinnata, or winged candy-tuft : herbaceous, 
leaves pinnatifid. Stem about half a foot in height, 
commonly Ample, but fometimes with a branch or two. 
Flowers clear white, feldom purple. Linn$us remarks, 
that the calyx is red, but the petals white ; and when in 
.fruit the form of the coiymb continues, as in I. umbel¬ 
lata, without lengthening out into a raceme or thryfe, as 
it does in fome of the fpecies. Native of the louth of 
Europe; and flowers from June to Auguft. 
Propagation andC.ulture. The firft is a plant fomewhat ten¬ 
der, therefore generally prelerved in green-houfes in win¬ 
ter, where, being placed among other low plants towards 
the front of the houfe, it makes an agreeable variety, as 
it continues flowering all the winter. But, although it is 
commonly fo.treated, yet in moderate wintersthisplant will 
live in the open air, if it be planted in a warm fituation 
and on a dry foil. This plant however very rarely pro¬ 
duces leeds in England, therefore is only propagated by 
cuttings, which, if planted during any of the fummer- 
months, and (haded from the fun, and duly watered, will 
be rooted in two months, and may afterwards be either 
planted in pots or into the borders where they are de- 
figned to Hand. The 2d, 3d, 4th, and 10th, may be in- 
creafed by cuttings in the fame manner. 
The 5th, 6th, and 7th, are propagated by feeds, fown 
on a fliady border in autumn ; when the plants are Itrong 
enough to remove, tranfplant them into a lhady border, 
where they are to remain, and they will require no other 
care but to keep them clean from weeds. The other 
fpecies are fown in fmall patches in the borders of the 
flower-garden; and, by flowing them at three or fourtdifi- 
ferent times, there may be a .lucceflion of them in flower 
till autumn. When grown up they (hould be thinned, 
that they may put out fide-branches, flower (Monger, and 
continue longer in beauty. Formerly the eighth was 
fown for edgings, but th'ele and all annuals are unfit for 
that purpofe. The thirteenth is rarely admitted into gar¬ 
dens. The feeds may be (own in autumn where the plants 
are defigned to remain, and require no other care but to 
keep them clean from weeds. See Cahdamine, Lepidi- 
VMj and Thlaspi, 
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