206 TETRADYNAMIA— SILIQUOSA. Matthiola. 



leathery ; rounded at the extremity ; each tapering at the base 

 into a short footstalk. Fl. corymbose, large, light puii)le, fra- 

 grant, often double ; their claws pale and greenish. Pod 2 or 

 2} inches long, crowned with the sessile stigma subtended at 

 each side by a small point ; the valves frequently dissimilar, one 

 being- more keeled than the other. Seeds most convex at one 

 side, light brown, surrounded entirely by a white filmy border ; 

 cotyledons accumbent, as may be seen without taking off the 

 skin. 

 I believe this species is naturally perennial ; though in gardens, 

 remote from the sea, it is seldom more than biennial, and in- 

 deed often perishes the first winter, without flowering. 



2. M. sinuata. Great Sea Stock. 



Stem herbaceous, spreading. Leaves downy, glandular, 

 obtuse, sinuated ; those of the branches undivided. Pods 

 rough with prominent glands. 



M. sinuata. Br. in Ait. H. Kew. v. 4. 120. DeCand. Sijst.v. 2. 167. 



Camp. ed. 4. 113. 

 Cheiranthus sinuatus. Linn. Sp. PI. 92G. mild. v. 3. 524. Fl. 



Br. 710. Engl. Bot. v. 1 . t. 4C2. Huds. 288. Davies IVehh Bo- 



tanol. 64. 

 Ch. tricuspidatus. Huds. cd. 1. 250. 

 Leucojum marinum majus. Raii Sijn.29\ . 

 L. marinum purpureum Lobelii. Ger. Em. 460./. 

 L. maritimum magnum latifolium. Bank. Hist. v. 2. 875./. 876. 



Chabr. rc.279.f.4. 



On the sandy sea coasts of Wales and Cornwall, tfilji^^f^^^^ 



In many parts of Wales ; also on the coast of Cornwall. Ra//. 

 Near Pembroke. Mr. Adams. Near Abermeney j Llwyd ; with- 

 in a mile of Llanddwyn ; Brewer's Ms.; Rev. H. Davies. 



Biennial. August. 



Root long and tapering. Whole herb clothed with densely intri- 

 cate starry down, intermixed with short glandular rigid prickles, 

 v.'hich abound most on the pods. Stem branched, widely spread- 

 ing, 2 feet high, round, leafy, Lov.er leaves most sinuated j 

 upper undivided and entire. Fl. the size of the foregoing, but 

 of a more dingy hue ; not fragrant by dav, but in the evening 

 very highly scented, with a kind of aromatic pungency, render- 

 ing this species well v/orthy of a place in gardens. Stigma ses- 

 sile, bluntly protuberant at each side. Pods 3 or 4 inches long, 

 convex at each side, all over hoary and glandular. Seeds with 

 a membranous border. The taste of the whole herb is alkaline 

 and bitterish. Petiver has by mistake copied, for this, the ex- 

 cellent wooden cut of Matthiola tricu^jjidata, Cheiranthus tricus- 

 pidatus of Linnaeus, published in the Hortus Medicus of Came- 

 rarius,/. 24. His error might perhaps raifdead Mr. Hudson in 

 t'ne first e(hti()n of Fl. AuQiica. 



