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M. simiata. (E. Brown, in Ait., Hort., Kew., ed. 2, iv., p. 120). 

 The " Great Sea Stock " is an herbaceous plant of 2 feet in height, 

 with an erect, branched stem. Leaves oblong and downy, the 

 lower ones sinuated ; siliques compressed velvety and muricated 

 with glands. Flowers of a dingy-red colour, about the size of 

 3f. incana, sw^eet-scented in the evening. The whole plant has an 

 alkaline bitterish taste. Xative of the South of Europe, along the 

 sandy sea-coast, also of Britain on the coasts of Cornwall and 

 Wales, near Pembroke, Abermeney and Llanddwyn. {Cheiranthus 

 sinuaUtSy Lin., Spec, 926 ; Smith, Eng. Bot., t. 462 ; Smith, Flor. 

 Gr?ec., t. 640 ; C. tricuspid atus, Hudson, Flora Anglica, ed. 1, p. 

 450 ; C. miiricatus, la Marck, Flore Francaise, ii., p. 507 ; Hesperis 

 sinuata, Lam., Die, iii., p. 323. 



M. simplicicaulis, Sweet, Hort. Brit., p. 17. This is the parent 

 plant of the "Brompton Stock." It differs from Mo.ttliiola incana, or 

 " Queen Stock " (to which it was formerly attached as a simple 

 variety), in the plant being a biennial, not shrubby ; it is simple, 

 not branched. 



M.odoratissima, E. Brown, in Ait., Hort. Kew., Ed. 2, iv., p. 120. 

 This is a shrub with an erect stem of 1 to 2 feet in heio-ht : 

 branched; leaves downy or pubescent, toothed or pinnatifid; siliques 

 compressed, somewhat hoary. Flowers very large, dirty cream- 

 coloured, or when old purplish-brown, sweet-scented in the 

 evening. It is a native of the calcareous mountains of Tauria, and 

 on rocks in Eastern Caucasus, also in Iberia, about Tiflis. Bot. 

 Mag., t. 1711. Hesperis ocloratissima, Poiret, SuppL, iii., p. 195. 

 Cheircmthus odorcdissimus, Bieberstein. This plant is found in 

 Western Thibet, in dry, stony places on the mountains, ascending 

 to 12,000 feet. 



Var. /3, Tcmcticensis (D.C., Syst., ii., p. 170). This variety is 

 covered with appressed pubescence ; siliques one half 

 shorter than those of the species. It is a native on the 

 cretaceous hills at Tanaim. Cheiranthus fragrans, 

 Fischer, in Catalogue du jardin des plantes de Gorenki, 

 1812, p. 51. 



The method of culture recommended to procure tine double 

 Stocks is to make choice of such single-flowering plants as grow 

 near many double ones, for it has been observed that seed saved 



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