1 62 FLOWERS OF ROCKS, WALLS, ETC. 



Cyphel, Fews, Foos, F^ouets, Fow, Fuit, Full, Healing Blade, 

 Hockerie-topner, Homewort, House-green, Huslock, Imbreke, Jo- 

 barbe, Jubard, Jupiter's Beard, Jupiter's Eye, Poor Jan's Leaf, Sel- 

 green, Sengreen, Sigrim, Sil-green, Simgreen, Singreen, Sinna-green, 

 Sungreen, Suphelt, Thunder-plant. Homewort was the Saxon name 

 for it. Cockayne says planted on a roof it protected from thunder and 

 lio-htning. Because associated with the evil one it was called Devil's 

 Beard. 



Houseleek was used in Italy as a love charm. There are locally 

 antipathies against uprooting and even allowing it to bloom. It was 

 used in heny greyne, i.e. megrim, used for neuralgia. An ointment 

 for scalds and burns is prepared from it. The plant is astringent. It 

 is planted on roofs and walls as an ornament. 



Essential Specific Characters: — 



115. ScDipcrz'k'inu tcctoritni, L. — Leaves fleshy, succulent, fringed 

 at the margin, tufted, flowers purple, petals 12, ciliate. 



Golden Rod (Solidago Virgaurea, L.) 



This common rupestral plant is found in the North Temperate and 

 Arctic Zones to-day in N. Temperate and Arctic Europe generally. 

 It is unknown earlier than this, and Is found in Asia eastward to the 

 Himalayas, and America. In Great Britain it is absent from East 

 Suffolk, Hunts, Carmarthen, S. Lanes, Mid Lanes, Stirling, North 

 Aberdeen, and ascends to 2800 ft. in the Highlands. 



Golden Rod is confined to w^ooded districts where there are per- 

 pendicular faces constantly covered with a stream of running water. 

 This is its special stronghold, but it is to be found in the south In 

 ditches by the roadside. 



Golden Rod is a tall, graceful plant, erect, with few branches, with 

 angular edges, rather rough. The leaves are lance-shaped, those at 

 the base shortly stalked, elliptic, coarsely-toothed, with acute or blunt 

 tips. Several stems grow in a clump, forming a fair sight when In 

 bloom. 



The beauteous grolden bloom Is abundant with the flowers arranged 

 in panicled racemes, which are crowded and upright. The involucre 

 is oblong, with several rows of bracts o\-erlappIng, with lance-shaped 

 phyllarles. In the ray there are 10-12 florets, 10-20 in the disk — 

 the former ligulate, the latter tubular. The bracts are linear-acute 

 with membranous margins. The fruit Is downy, with numerous ribs, 

 and the pappus hairs In more than one row, rough. 



