Arabis Alpina Alpine Wall-cress

<p><em>Class and Order.</em></p>

<p>Tetradynamia Siliquosa.</p>

<p><em>Generic Character.</em></p>

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<p><em>Glandul&aelig;</em> nectarifer&aelig; 4, singul&aelig; intra calycis foliola, squam&aelig; instar reflex&aelig;. </p>

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<p><em>Specific Character and Synonyms.</em></p>

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<p>ARABIS <em>alpina</em> foliis amplexicaulibus dentatis. <em>Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 599.</em> <em>Ait. Kew. Vol. 2. p. 399.</em> <em>Mill. Dict. ed. 6. 4to.</em></p>

<p>DRABA alba siliquosa repens. <em>Bauh. Pin. p. 109.</em> </p>

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<p>An early-blowing plant, if it has no great pretensions to beauty, brings with it a powerful recommendation, more especially if its flowers are not of the more common hue; such are the claims which the present plant has to a place in this work: it is perennial, hardy, herbaceous, of low growth, rarely exceeding a foot in height, producing its white blossoms in April and May: its size renders it a suitable plant for the border of a small garden, or for the covering of rock-work.</p>

<p>It is readily increased by parting its roots in autumn.</p>

<p>Grows spontaneously on the Alps of Switzerland, Austria, and Lapland, and was cultivated (<em>vid. Hort. Kew</em>) in the Botanic Garden at Oxford, in 1658.</p>