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Iberidella (Diminutive of Iberis ORD)

(a diminutive of Iberis). ORD. Cruciferae. A genus comprising six species of herbs or sub-shrubs, natives of the mountains of Syria, Persia, and Asia Minor; one being from the Himalayas. I. rotundifolia, the species usually seen under cultivation, is a very pretty, densely-tufted, spreading, alpine, herbaceous, tap-rooted plant, requiring a rather light soil. It may be freely increased by seeds, or by divisions.

I. rotundifolia (round-leaved).* fl. rosy-lilac, with a yellow eye, fragrant, about 1/2in. in diameter, and disposed in erect, cylindrical, crowded racemes. April. l. opposite, fleshy, broadly-ovate. h. 3in. to 6in. European Alps, 1868. (B. M. 5749.)