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* MATTHIOLA odoratissima. 
¡Sweetest Evening Stock. 
TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. 
Nat. ord. BRASSICACER, or CRUCIFERZ. 
* 
MATTHIOLA. R. Brown. Calyx erectus, basi bisaccatus. — Petala 
unguiculata, limbo patente obovato aut oblongo. Stamina libera, edentula, 
longiora subdilatata. Siliqua teres vel compressa. elongata, bilocularis, bivalvis, 
stigmate connivente bilobo, lobis dorso vel incrassatis vel cornigeris. Semina 
compressa, l-serialia, sepiús marginata.  Cotyledones plane, accumbentes. 
DeCand. syst. veg. 2. 162. 
S LUPERIA. 
Petalorum lamine oblonge, undulate aut oblique, sordide e flavo purpu- 
rascentes. Silique apice non tricuspidate, stigmatum dorsis crassis 
gibbisve non verd in cornua excrescentibus. DC. l. c. 
M. odoratissima ; caule erecto ramoso, foliis tomentosis pubescentibusve dentatis 
pinnatifidisve, siliquis compressis puberulis. DC. l. c. 
M. odoratissima. Brown in hort. Kew. 4. 120. Bot. mag. t. 1711. 
Hesperis odoratissima. Poir. suppl. iii. 195. 
Cheiranthus odoratissimus. Bieb. fl. taur. cauc. 2. 192. suppl. 444. 
This is one of the many interesting plants which have 
ceased to be cultivated, and have resigned their place to newer 
species. It is one of those Stocks which DeCandolle called 
Luperie, or sad coloured, because their flowers have ih all 
cases a dull heavy appearance, in consequence of the mixture 
of purple and yellow in the petals, but which in general 
possess the curious property of becoming deliciously fragrant 
towards evening. 
In a wild state this plant inhabits the calcareous moun- 
tains of the Crimea, stony places of the eastern Caucasus, 
. * Named after Peter Andrew Matthioli, the laborious commentator upon 
Dioscorides. 
