DRABA alba siliquosa repens. _Bauh. Pin. p. 109._ 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. It is readily increased by parting its roots in autumn. Grows spontaneously on the Alps of Switzerland, Austria, and Lapland, and was cultivated (_vid. Hort. Kew_) in the Botanic Garden at Oxford, in 1658. [Illustration: _No 226_] [227] HELIANTHUS MULTIFLORUS. MANY-FLOWERED or PERENNIAL SUN-FLOWER. _Class and Order._ SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA FRUSTRANEA. _Generic Character._ _Recept._ paleaceum, planum. _Pappus_ 2-phyllus. _Cal._ imbricatus, subsquarrosus. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ HELIANTHUS _multiflorus_ foliis inferioribus cordatis trinervatis superioribus ovatis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 781._ CHRYSANTHEMUM americanum majus perenne, floris folis foliis et floribus. _Moris. Hist. 3. p. 23._ The Helianthus multiflorus, a native of North-America, is a hardy perennial herbaceous plant, arising usually to the height of five or six feet, and producing a great number of large yellow shewy blossoms, which renders it a suitable plant to ornament the shrubbery or garden of large extent; the variety with double flowers is the one most commonly cultivated, and this we find in almost every garden: it flowers from July to September, and is propagated by parting its roots in autumn. This is a hardy plant, of ready growth, will bear the smoke of London better than many others; if it continues in the same spot for a great number of years, the blossoms are apt to become single. The single sort, according to MORISON, was introduced before 1699 by Lord LEMSTER. _Ait. Kew._ [Illustration: _No 227_] [Illustration: _No 228_] [228] BELLIS PERENNIS _var._ MAJOR FLORE PLENO. GREAT DOUBLE DAISY. _Class and Order._ SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. _Generic Character._ _Recept._ nudum, conicum. _Pappus_ nullus. _Cal._ hemisphaericus: squamis aequalibus. _Sem._ subovata. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ BELLIS _perennis_ scapo nudo. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 770._ BELLIS hortensis flore pleno. _Bauh. Pin. p. 261._ BELLIS minor hortensis flore pleno. Double Garden Daisy. _Park. Parad. p. 322._ The daisy, a plant common to Europe, in its wild state delights in open situations, which are moderately moist, its root is perennial, and increases greatly; the usual colour of its flowers is white, the florets are sometimes tipt with red, but more frequently red on the under side.