Petrocallis
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Petrocallis (Greek, rock beauty). Cruciferae. This genus has been commonly included in Draba but differs from it in technical botanical characters as follows: silique oval with swollen reticulate valves having 1-2 seeds in a cell with the funiculum adnate to the septum. One species in the Pyrenees, P. pyrenaica, R. Br. Height 2-3 in.: Ivs. wedge-shaped, 3-lobed at apex: fls. white at first, changing to rosy pink. May. Mountains, S. Eu. B.M. 713.—Also found under Draba pyrenaica page 1068; grown as a little rock-plant in choice collections. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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