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R.1 [ 226 ] ARABIS ALPINA. ALPINE WALL-CRESS. Clafs and Order. TETRADYNAMIA SILI^UOSA* Generic Character. neftariferee 4, fingulse intra calycis foliola, fquamai 1 inftar reflexse. Specific CharaRer and Synonyms. ARABIS alpina foliis amplexicaulibus dentatis. Linn. Syfti Vegetal, ed. 1 4. Murr. p\ 5 99. Ait. Kew-. Vol. z. p. 3 99. Mill. Dill. ed. 6. 410. DRAB A alba filiquofa repens; Baub. Pin. p. 109. An early-blowing plant, if it has no great pretenfions to beauty, brings with it a powerful recommendation, more efpecially if its flowers are not of the more common hue; fuch are the claims which the prefent 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 bloflbms in April and May : its fize renders it a fuitable plant for the border of a fmall garden, or for the covering of rock-work* « It is readily increafed by parting its roots in autumn. Grows fpontaneoufly on the Alps of Switzerland, Auftria, and Lapland, and was cultivated (vid. Hart. Ke-so)- in the Botanic Garden at Oxford, in 1658. fui. by W CurtlS SVea.CnfierLt J&y.j. Jffi.
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ARABIS ALPINA. ALPINE WALL-CRESS.<br />
Clafs and Order.<br />
TETRADYNAMIA SILI^UOSA*<br />
Generic Character.<br />
neftariferee 4, fingulse intra calycis foliola, fquamai<br />
1 inftar reflexse.<br />
Specific CharaRer and Synonyms.<br />
ARABIS alpina foliis amplexicaulibus dentatis. Linn. Syfti<br />
Vegetal, ed. 1 4. Murr. p\ 5 99. Ait. Kew-. Vol. z.<br />
p. 3 99. Mill. Dill. ed. 6. 410.<br />
DRAB A alba filiqu<strong>of</strong>a repens; Baub. Pin. p. 109.<br />
An early-blowing plant, if it has no great pretenfions to<br />
beauty, brings with it a powerful recommendation, more<br />
efpecially if its flowers are not <strong>of</strong> the more common hue;<br />
fuch are the claims which the prefent plant has to a place in<br />
this work : it is perennial, hardy, herbaceous, <strong>of</strong> low growth,<br />
rarely exceeding a foot in height, producing its white bl<strong>of</strong>lbms<br />
in April and May : its fize renders it a fuitable plant for the<br />
border <strong>of</strong> a fmall garden, or for the covering <strong>of</strong> rock-work*<br />
«<br />
It is readily increafed by parting its roots in autumn.<br />
Grows fpontaneoufly on the Alps <strong>of</strong> Switzerland, Auftria,<br />
and Lapland, and was cultivated (vid. Hart. Ke-so)- in the<br />
Botanic Garden at Oxford, in 1658.<br />
fui. by W CurtlS SVea.CnfierLt J&y.j. Jffi.
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