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CHEIRA^THUS* mutabilis. 

 Changeable Wall-flower. 



TETR ADYNAMIA SILJQUOSA. 



Nat.ord. Crucivf-u/k Juss. {Introduction to the natural srjstcvi oj 

 Botany, p. 14.) 



CHEIRANTHUS. —Supra, vol. 3. fol. 219. 



C. 7nutabilis ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis argut^ scrratis pubc ad- 



pressa bipartitii subpubescentibus, caule frutescente ramoso. De Cand. 



syst. vol. 2. p. 183. 

 «; C. mutabilis. L'Hcrit. stirp. nov. 1. p. 92. Bat. viag. t. 19.3. Willd. 



sp. pi. .3. .517. 

 /3; C. longifolius. Voit. malm. t. 83, Pers. synops. 2. p. 201. 

 Hesperis longifolia. Poir. suppl. 3. 195. 



Caulis fruticosus, crcctus, teres, yriseus, 2-3-pedalis. Rami patentes, 

 jnniores vix suhangulati. Folia sparsa, lineari-lanceolata, utrinque acuta, 

 tcjiuia, basi in petioUnn subattcnuata, argute hinc hide scrrata, 3 poll, 

 longa, 3 lin. lata, primd fronte glabra, vircntia, sub lente pube sparsd 

 stellatd instructa. Racemi multifiori. Pedicelli Jiliformes, erccti, 4 lin. 

 longi. Calyx subcompressus, 4 lin. longus. Flores versicolores, in var. 

 ct nascentes ochroleuci, in var. /3 nascentes albi, in utrdque adulti lilacino- 

 purpurascentcs. Petalorum ungues calyci (equales aut jjaulb longiores, 

 lamincp ovatce aut obovatce, patcntes, 4 lin. longae. Siliqucc erecice, juniorcs 

 cano-tomcntoscE, sessiles super torum ; sty\o Jiliformi et stigmate bilobo ter- 

 minatce. Pedicelli y?or«7» 2-3 lin. longi. — De Cand. 1. c. 



A beautiful half-slirubby plant, .seldom .seen in our 

 Gardens, although far from being recently introduced. It 

 is a native of Teneriffe, where seeds were collected by 

 P. B. Webb, Esq., and sent to England to Mr. Young, of 

 Milford, near Godalming, by wliom a specimen in tlower 

 was sent to us in April last. 



* Tlic Arabians callod sptcies of this goiuis kheiri, whence the word 

 Cheiranllios has been compounded by the addition of the Greek for flower. 



