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Cheiranthus Tristis. Dark-Flowered 



Stock. 



Oafs and Order. 

 Tetradynamia Siliquosa. 



Generic Charabler. 



Germen utrinque denticulo glandulato. Cal. claufus : foliolis 

 2 bali gibbis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms* 



CHEIRANTHUS trifiis ; foliis linearibus fubfinuatis, flori- 



bus feffilibus : petalis undatis, caule fuf- 



fruticofo. Sp. PL 925. Willd. 3. 522. 



Reich. 3. p. 266. Mart. Mill. Dift. a. 15. 



Allion. Ped. 3. 991. Hort. Kew. 2. 397. 

 CHEIRANTHUS foliis lanceolato linearibus acutis glabris, 



filiquis teretibus. Hort. Cliff. 332. Hort. 



Up). 188. 

 LEUCOIUM minus. Barr. ic. 999. n. 1. 2. 803. (1019. ?) 



Bocc. Muf. 148. /. 111. 



A native of the South of Europe, and though marked in 

 the Kew catalogue as hardy, is not fufnciently fo to Hand the 

 feverity of our Winters fecurely. It is better to confider it 

 as a greenhoufe plant, and fo treated it has a fhrubby (talk, 

 and flowers early in the Summer. The whole plant is downy 

 and the flowers have much the fame fombre hue as Hesperis 

 irijlisy and when more nearly examined have the like beauti- 

 ful veining ; are fcentlefs in the day time, but when the even- 

 ing arrives exhale an odour to us very grateful ; though 

 Linn ms fays, * Flores trifles colore et odore." It is a curious; 

 faft, that moil flowers having this peculiar melancholy afpe£t fc 

 poflefs a fimilar nigbt-fmelling quality. 



Cultivated by Philip Miller, in 1768. May be propa- 

 gated by feeds or cuttings. 



Our drawing was taken at the Botanic Garden, Brampton, 



