206 TETRADYNAMIA— SILIQUOSA. Matthiola. 



leathery ; rounded at the extremity ; each tapering at the base 

 into a short footstalk. Fl. corymbose, large, light purple, fra- 

 grant, often double ; their claws pale and greenish. Pod 2 or 

 2-^ inches long, crowned with the sessile stigma subtended at 

 each side by a small point ; the valves frequently dissimilar, one 

 being more keeled than the other. Seeds most convex at one 

 side, light brown, surrounded entirely by a white filmy border ; 

 cotyledons accumbent, as may be seen without taking off the 

 skin. 

 1 believe this species is naturally perennial ; though in gardens, 

 remote from the sea, it is seldom more than biennial, and in- 

 deed often perishes the first winter, without flowering. 



2. M. sinuata. Great Sea Stock. 



Stem herbaceous, spreading. Leaves downy, glandular, 

 obtuse, sinuated ; those of the branches undivided. Pods 

 rough with prominent glands. 



M. sinuata. Br. in Alt. H. Kew. v. 4. 1 20. DeCand. Syst. v. 2. 1 67. 



Comp.ed.4. 113. 

 Cheiranthus sinuatus. Linn. Sp. PL 926. Willd. v. 3. 524. Fl. 



Br. 710. Engl. Bat. v. 7- 1. 462. Huds. 288. Davies Welsh Bo- 



tanol. 64. 

 Ch. tricuspidatus. Huds. cd. 1. 250. 

 Leucojum marinum majus. Rail Syn. 291 . 

 L. marinum purpureum Lobelii. Ger. Em. 460. f. 

 L. maritimum magnum latifolium. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 875./. 876. 



Chabr. Tc.279.f.4, 



On the sandy sea coasts of Wales and Cornwall. 



In many parts of Wales ; also on the coast of Cornwall. Ray. 

 Near Pembroke. Mr. Adams. Near Abermeney ; Llwyd ; with- 

 in a mile of Llanddwyn ; Brewer's Ms.; Rev. H. Duvies. 



Biennial. August. 



Root long and tapering. Whole herb clothed with densely intri- 

 cate starry down, intermixed with short glandular rigid prickles, 

 which abound most on the pods. Stem branched, widely spread- 

 ing, 2 feet high, round, leafy. Lower leaves most sinuated ; 

 upper undivided and entire. FL the size of the foregoing, but 

 of a more dingy hue ; not fragrant by day, but in the evening 

 very highly scented, with a kind of aromatic pungency, render- 

 ing this species well worthy of a place in gardens. Stigma ses- 

 sile, bluntly protuberant at each side. Pods 3 or 4 inches long, 

 convex at each side, all over hoary and glandular. Seeds with 

 a membranous border. The taste of the whole herb is alkaline 

 and bitterish. Petiver has by mistake copied, for this, the ex- 

 cellent wooden cut of Matthiola tricufjjidata, Cheiranthus tricus- 

 pidatus of Linnaeus, published in the Hortiis Medicus of Came- 

 rarius,/. 24. His error might perhaps mislead Mr. Hudson in 

 the first edition of Fl. Anglica. 



