174 FLOWERS OF ROCKS, WALFS, ETC. 



and the style has dropped. The llowers arc aneinophilous. The 

 male flowers are like those of the Nettle, the female with a brush-like 

 stigma and 4-lobed. 



The fruits are small, and fall when ripe at once to the ground, or 

 are blown away to a distance by the wind. 



This is a rock plant, growing on rocks or walls, or arenophilous 

 on a sand soil. 



Two beetles, Throsciis carinifrous and T. clatcroides, and a moth, 

 Siniccthis fabriciana, feed on it. 



Parietaria, Pliny, is from the Latin paries, a wall, from w hich came 



Dr. Soriierxillc Hastings 



PellitorY-OF-THE-Wall (I'nrieliirici rami/lum, Mcench) 



perritory, the r's being changed into /'s, and the old second Latin 

 name officinalis refers to its use as a medicine; ramiflora refers to 

 the flowers being on the stem or branches. 



Pellitory-of-the-Wall is also called Billie Beatie, Hammerwort, 

 Lichwort, Parietary, Peletir, Peniterry, Wallwort. As to the name 

 Peniterry, we read of " a weed called locally at least, Peniterry, to 

 which the suddenly terrified (schoolboy) idler might run in his need, 

 grasping it hard and threateningly and repeating the following 'Words 

 of Power': 



"' Peniterry, Peniterry, that grows by tlie wall. 



Save me from a whipping, or 1 pull )^ou roots and all.' " 



The name Lichwort was applied because " it grows neere to old wals 



