Braya

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Read about Braya in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Braya (Count de Bray, 1765-1831, German botanist). Crudferae. Small tufted alpine or boreal perennial herbs, sometimes grown in alpine gardening. There are a dozen or more species in Eu., Asia and Amer. Plant glabrous or cano-tomentose: Ivs. radical, spatulate or linear, entire or dentate: fls. on scapes that often are naked and sometimes only 1-fld. but mostly bearing racemes or corymbs, white or rose- colored or purple. B, alpina, Sternb. & Hoppe, is the usual species, with white fls. B. pinnatifida, Koch (probably properly Sisymbrium pinnatlfidum, DC.), has white-lilac fls. Practically unknown in cult, in N. Ampr.


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