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TREACLE-MUSTARD. ERYSIMUM. 

 GARLIC TREACLE-MUSTARD. Erysimum alliaria. 



Plate 10, fig. 4. 



A light green, thin leaved, white flowered, and somewhat 

 pretty plant, common in hedges, and flowering in April, May, 

 and June. It grows upright, sometimes only a few inches, 

 at others two feet or more high. The leaves are heart-shaped, 

 toothed, smooth, and stalked. Seed-vessel does not grow straight 

 from the stalk, but more upwards. The whole plant smells 

 strongly something like garlic. 

 Q. S. -Worraseed Treacle-mustard and Hare's-ear Treacle-mustard, 



WALLFLOWER. CHEIRANTHUS. 



COMMON WALLFLOWER. Cheiranthus cheiri. 



Plate 10, fig. 5. 



The cultivated Wallflower differs a little from its usual wild 

 state, but merely in having darker flowers, and growing larger. 

 The leaves are lance-shaped, sharp -pointed, without notches, 

 with a few closely-pressed hairs. The pods are long and thin. 

 The lobes of the stigma spread out, the stem shrubby, and 

 of many branches. It is in flower throughout the greater part 

 of the year, and loves to cling on the top of old walls. Hence 

 it has been truly said, 



" The weed is green, when grey the wall, 

 And blossoms rise when turrets fall !" 



And the circumstance has not been lost sight of by the 

 poets, many of whom have cherished its memory, and sung 

 its praises. Miss Twamley beautifully says, "The Wallflower 

 is properly considered the emblem of love in adversity, for it 

 never appears on the stately pile in its days of pride and 

 grandeur, but when the buttresses fall, and the walls totter ; 

 then the flower brings its beauty and fragrance to gladden the 

 solitary place, and by its cheerful smiles to rob the sad scene 

 of half its gloom." 



" The Wallflower, the Wallflower, 



How beautiful it blooms! 

 It gleams above the ruined tower, 



Like sunlight over tombs. 

 It sheds a halo of repose, 



Around the wrecks of time, 

 To beauty give the flaunting Rose, 



The Wallflower is sublime. 



