CRUCIFER&. 1538 
Stem woody at the base. Leaves all entire. Pods cylindrical, 
compressed, without glands. Stigmatic lobes thickened on the 
outside, and projecting laterally into a tooth. Seeds circular, with 
the wing more than half the diameter of the cotyledons. 
On cliffs by the sea-coast, very local, and possibly an introduced 
plant. Plentiful on the bare perpendicular face of the chalk cliffs 
at Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, and also on sandy rocks by the 
shore at Steep Hill, near Ventnor. It is said to have occurred 
formerly on the cliffs to the east of Hastings, but is not now found 
there. 
England. Perennial. Spring to Autumn. 
Stem erect, woody, and in old plants often exceeding 1 inch 
in diameter, dividing near the ground into numerous ascending 
branches which are again branched, forming a bush 1 or 2 feet 
high, the branches naked and marked with leaf-scars except at the 
extremity. Leaves in rosettes at the extremity of the old branches, 
and scattered on the shoots of the year; the lower ones narrowly 
oblanceolate or elliptical - strapshaped, entire or sometimes with 
faint obtuse-angled projections at the sides. Flowering raceme 
1 to 2 inches Jong. Flowers ‘1 to 1$ inch in diameter, purplish 
pink, varying to violet-blue or lilac on the same plant” (Dr. Brom- 
field), bright rose-colour when dried. Fruit pedicels about + inch 
long. Pods 4 or 5 inches in length, and about 4 inch broad; 
replum translucent, with 2 or 8 nerves. Seeds nearly orbicular, 
much compressed, surrounded by a white membranous wing 
broadest at the top, where it is nearly two-thirds the diameter of 
the solid part of the seed. Whole plant covered, as in the last 
species, with hoary stellate pubescence, but without interspersed 
glands. 
Hoary Shrubby Stock. 
French, Matthiole Blanchdtre. German, Die Weissgrawe Winterlevkoje. 
The specific name of this plant indicates its downy appearance, or, as Lord Bacon 
says, its “ velvet rind.” By cultivation this species becomes the Queen’s Stock, rivalling 
in size and beauty the celebrated Brompton Stock. 
GENUS IX¥—-CHEIRANTHUS. Jinn. 
Sepals erect, the lateral ones gibbous at the base. Petals equal, 
entire, with long claws and spreading laminz. Filaments without 
wings or teeth. Pod elongate, quadrangular, more or less com- 
pressed; valves keeled, with a dorsal nerve. Style short, conical, 
or filiform. Stigma with 2 diverging stb-cylindrical lobes with 
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