The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Alyssum (Supplement)

This genus comprises from eighty to ninety species, natives of Asia Minor, South Europe, Persia, North Africa, the Caucasus, and Siberia. To those described on pp. 60-I, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

A. pyrenaicum (Pyrenean). fl. white, with chocolate-coloured anthers. June to August. l. roundish. Habit dwarf, tufted.

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