I 7 4 FLOWERS OF ROCKS, WALLS, ETC. 



and the style has dropped. The flowers are anemophilous. 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, Throscus carinifrons and T. elateroides^ and a moth, 

 Simeethis fabriciana, feed on it. 



Parietaria, Pliny, is from the Latin paries, a wall, from which came 



PELLITORY OF-THE-WALL {Parietaria ramiflora, Mcench) 



perritory, the rs 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 the wall, 



Save me from a whipping, or I pull you roots and all.' " 



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



