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beaded, and each valve with a very prominent nerve; replum 
spongy. Whole plant quite glabrous and glaucous. 
This plant has much the habit of the genus Brassica, in which 
it was placed by Linnzeus. 
Hare’s Ear Cabbage, or Hedge Mustard. 
Sus-Genvus I].—EU-ERYSIMUM. 
Petals with the limb spreading. Stem leaves not amplexicaul. 
Plant clothed with starlike hairs. 
DA 
SPECIES IL—ERYSIMUM CHEIRANTHOIDES. Zinn. 
Puate CII.* 
Reich. Ic. F). Germ. et Helv. Vol. Il. Vetr. Tab. LXIIT. Fig. 4383. 
Stem leaves lanceolate-elliptical, attenuated at the base, and 
not at all amplexicaul. Petals with the claw about as long as the 
sepals. Pods ascending-spreading; valves with 1 nerve; pedicels 
nearly half as long as the pod. 
A weed in cultivated ground and in waste places. Not uncom- 
mon in the South of England, particularly in the neighbourhood of 
London, but only occurring as a straggler in the northern counties 
and in Scotland. 
England, [Scotland,| Ireland. Annual. Summer, Autumn. 
Stem erect, 6 inches to 3 feet high; the larger examples with 
patent-ascending branches in the upper portion of the stem. 
Radical leaves at first in a rosette, but withering before the flowers 
open; leaves spreading, all narrowed at the base, and the lower 
ones occasionally shortly stalked, the edges waved or remotely 
dentate. Flowers about 4% inch across, bright yellow. Fruit 
pedicels about 4 inch long, patent. Pods # to 1 inch long, slightly 
curved, slender, indistinctly beaded, quadrangular, forming an 
obtuse angle with the pedicel, so that they are less spreading than 
the latter; replum membranous. Whole plant dull green, covered 
with scattered starlike hairs, with usually 3 rays. 
Treacle Hedge Mustard, Wormseed Mustard, or Waliflower 
Mustard. 
French, Vélar, Giroflée. 
The seeds of this plant were at one time given to children as a vermifuge, and are 
said to have been very efficacious. The plant formed an ingredient in the so-called 
Venice treacle and many quack and rustic medicines. 
* The Plate is E. B. 942, unaltered. 
