Parrya
(named after Captain W. E. Parry, 1790-1855, the Arctic navigator). Including Neuroloma and Pachyneurum. ORD. Cruciferae. A genus comprising half-a-score species of hardy, low, glabrous or pilose herbs, with thick perennial roots, all Arctic, or natives of the highest mountains of Northern Asia. Flowers white, rose, or purple, racemose, rarely on solitary scapes, usually showy; sepals erect; petals unguiculate, spathulate; scape naked or leafy. Pod compressed. Leaves linear or spathulate, entire or sinuate-toothed, in one species pinnatifid. Parryas thrive in any garden soil. Increased by division.
P. arabidiflorum (Arabis-flowered). fl. purple; petals obovate; pedicels scarcely longer than the calyx; scapes simple. May. l. sub-radical, somewhat fleshy, lanceolate. h. 6in. Siberia, 1800. SYNS. Hesperis arabidiflora, Neuroloma arabidiflora.
P. arctica (Arctic). fl. pale purple, borne in corymbs; anthers oval; peduncles quite smooth. May and June. l. almost all quite entire. h. 3in. Arctic America, 1820.
P. integerrima (entire-leaved). fl. beautiful purple, about the size of those of Cardamine pratensis; racemes at first corymbose. April and May. l., radical ones rather spathulate, quite entire; cauline ones few. h. 6in. Siberia, 1827. P. nudicaulis (naked-stemmed). fl. lilac, 1in. across, six to eight in a corymb on a leafless stem; petals obcordate. Early summer. l. all radical, petiolate, elliptic-oblong, acute, entire or toothed, 2in. to 3in. long. Arctic regions, 1883. A beautiful little rock-work plant.