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round tops. Replum transparent. Seeds oval-compressed, often 
winged round the margin. 
Herbs or undershrubs with scattered adpressed hairs, rarely 
with stellate down. Leaves elliptical-oblong or linear, entire or 
toothed. Flowers large, yellow or purple, disposed in short 
racemes which afterwards elongate. 
Wallflower. 
French, Giroflée. German, Der Lack. 
The derivation of the name of this genus is variously given. That most generally 
received is from yer (chew), the hand, and avdoc (anthos), a flower,—a hand-flower, because 
suited for carrying in the hand. This appears to us so absurd and so little applicable 
to this plant in particular, that we prefer taking the Arabic word cheiri or kheyry, the 
name of a very red sweet-scented flower, as the origin of the generic name Cheiranthus. 
The species frequently grow on walls, hence the popular name. 
SPECIES I—CHEIRANTHUS CHEIRI. Linn. 
Puate CVI.* 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. II. Zetr. Tab. XLV. Fig. 4347. 
Cheiranthus fruticulosus, Zinn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No, 1934. 
Stem woody at the base. Leaves entire. Pod quadrangular- 
compressed. Style conical. Seeds winged at the summit. 
On old buildings and walls, not truly native, though occurring 
in the greater number of the English and Scotch counties. 
(England, Scotland, Ireland]. Perennial. Spring. 
Stem erect, 9 inches to 2 feet high, the old part woody, 
marked with leaf-scars, and bare of leaves except at the summit 
where they are arranged in tufts, and are also scattered on the 
branches of the year. Leaves narrowly oblanceolate or elliptical- 
strapshaped, quite entire. Flowering raceme very short. Sepals 
purplish. Flowers ? inch to 1 inch across, bright orange-yellow, 
rarely tinged with the dark brown so common in the garden form 
of this plant. Fruit pedicels about 4 inch long. Pods 13 to 23 
inches long by 4 inch broad, suddenly contracted at the apex 
into an extremely short conical style; valves notched at the 
summit; replum with a central nerve. Seeds oblong, winged 
only at the apex. Plant dull green, clothed with short adpressed 
bipartite hairs resembling a simple hair attached by the middle. 
Common Wallflower, Gilliflower. 
French, Giroflée Violier, Viokier Jaune. German, Lackviole, Goldlack, or Gelbnecke. 
* The Plate is E. B. 1934, with a pod added by Mr. J. E. Sowerby. 
