CHEIRANTHUS scoparius. Chameleon fTallfimver. 



From an incidental remark, in relation to the curious 

 tranMtions of colour in the corolla of some species of Chbi- 

 RANTHus, in the above ** M^moirey* we perceive that the 

 " Chameleon fVallflower^ published in our Register (vol. 3. 

 fol. 219), as a possible, though extraordinary variety of Chei- 

 RANTHus Cheiri, had in fact been already specifically in- 

 stalled in the system; but under a designation much too 

 brief and indefinite for our powers of discrimination, until 

 aided by the remark above alluded to. The plant belongs, 

 without doubt, to Cheibanthus scopariiis of the 2d vol. 

 p. 681 of Willdenow*s Enumei*atio Horti Regii Beroli- 

 nensis; distinguished from the Wild Common Wallflower 

 (specifically removed from Cheirij the garden sort, under 

 the title JruticulosusJ by a strigose pubescence. Strigose is 

 however an epithet that w& should never have thought of 

 applying to such fur as covers this plant, at least in the state 

 we see it in our gardens. 



C. scoparius is said to have been originally observed in 

 the Island of Teneriff*e, by M. Broussonnet. It has been 

 cultivated in the Royal Garden at Berlin for these ten years 

 past or more;' and we find that it was from thence that 

 the plant was introduced amongst us, not from Moscow, 

 as we had been informed. It is now becoming very com- 

 mon ; being nearly hardy and very easily propagated by 

 cuttings and seed. We shall mention the subject again in 

 the appendix of the present volume. 



