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FLOWERS OF ROCKS, WALLS, ETC. 



The flowers are large and conspicuous, sweet-scented and attractive 

 to insects, and the stigma is provided with spreading lobes to assist 

 insects to alight upon it and cause cross-pollination. There are 2 

 honey-glands at the base of the 2 stamens. 



The seeds are dispersed by the wind or the plant's own mechanism. 

 The seeds are flattened, and this assists in their dispersal by the wind 

 when the pod has opened or dehisced lengthwise. 



The Wallflower is largely a rock plant or saxicolous, and grows on 



a variety of rocks gran- 

 ite, sandstone, and oolite. 

 It is also a sand plant, 

 favouring a sand soil de- 

 rived from sandy forma- 

 tions. 



It is infested by a 

 fungus, Peronospora para- 

 sitica. The beetle Bari- 

 dius laticollis, and the 

 Lepidoptera Large Yellow 

 Unclerwing (Tripkfsna 

 pronuba), Angle Shades 

 {Phlogophora meticulosa), 

 Phitella cruciferarum, P. 

 porrectella, visit it. 



The name Chciri, or 

 Keir in Arabic, was 

 adopted by Linnaeus, who 

 added anthos, Greek for 

 flower. Cheiros means a 

 man's hand, and it was 

 called hand-flower. Gerarde (1597) called it Well Gilloflower. 



The English names are Banwort, Bee Flower, Bleeding Heart, 

 Blood Wall, Bloody Warrior, Chevisaunce, Churl, Geraflour, Gilli- 

 flower, Heartsease, Jacks, Jeroffleris, Jilliver, July Flower, Keyry, 

 Sweet William. It was called Winter Flower and July Flower be- 

 cause it flowers in winter and is more or less dead in summer. In 

 Palestine it was called " Blood-drops of Christ ". A legend is told of 

 a maiden held captive on the Tweed banks, having plighted her troth 

 with a member of a hostile clan. The rival chiefs fought and shed 

 blood between each other. The lover at last gained admission as 

 a troubadour and planned escape, he agreeing to wait for her: 



WALLFLOWER (Cheiranthus C/iet'ri, L.) 





