Hutchinsia
(named after Miss Hutchins, of Bantry, an accomplished cryptogamic botanist). ORD. Cruciferae. A genus limited, by some authorities, to one species; by others, extended to a few allied ones from Southern Europe and Russian Asia, or also to two or three perennials from the high mountain ranges of Central and Southern Europe. The genus is nearly allied to Iberis and Iberidella. The species described below is a pretty little subject for the rock garden, or for margins or borders, in sandy soil. Propagated by divisions, or by seeds.
H. petraea (rock).* fl. very minute. Spring. l., radical ones pinnate; stem ones with fewer and narrower segments. h. 3in. Central and Southern Europe (Britain). A glabrous, delicate, erect annual. (Sy. En. B. 151.)