192 TETRAD YNAMI A SILIQUOSA. Cheiranthus. 



partite hairs. Siliques erect, on horizontal stalks. 

 Stigma almost stalkless. E. B. 942. Camelina. G. 

 E. 273. 



Turnip fields, gardens, osier holts, hedges. * * Osier Holts, near 



Goclstow. Southleigh, in the fields adjoining Tar Wood. Sb. 



Near Godstow Nunnery. Bx. 

 An. June. 

 Stem erect, varying in size, and branching, leafy, angular. Ls. 



stalkless, sometimes quite entire. Fl. numerous, small, yellow, 



lengthening into a spike-like corymb. Cal. yellowish, erect. 

 E. yillidria. Garlick Tr. Mustard; Jack by the 



Hedge ; or Sauce alone. Leaves heart-shaped, 



broadly toothed, stalked. E. B. 796. C. 2. 48. 



Alliaria. G. E. 794. 

 An. April. Bien. Sb. 

 Stem upright, about one f., or more, leafy, branched slightly in 



the upper part. Ls. alternate, deep, shining green, smooth. Fl. 



small, white. Siliques erect, spreading, long. Stam. glands 



four. 



Bruised plant, a strong garlic smell : Is. may be eaten. For- 

 merly used for seasoning : praised as an outward application in 

 gangrene, considered as diaphoretic, diuretic : when fowls eat the Is., 

 their flavour rendered very rank : boiled, when near its fi. -state, 

 an excellent green, for food. Seeds brviised provoke sneezing. 



CHEIRANTHUS.' Wall-flower. 



C. fruticulosus. Wild IV, Leaves spear-shaped, acute ; 

 most hoary beneath, with simple, close hairs. Stem 

 shrubby. Branches angular. Style prominent. E. 

 B. 1934. Ch. Cheiri. Sb. 202. H. L. ? 



Old walls. 



Shrubby. May. 



Roots and stems somewhat woody : branches green, numerous, 

 angular, tufted, erect, leafy. Fl. in a corymb, simple cluster, 

 bright golden ; delightfully fragrant. Ls. crowded, mostly 

 entire, stalked. Cal. often purplish, or brown. Siliques erect, 

 hoary. 

 Var. numerous in gardens. 



HE'SPERIS. Dame's-violet. 



H. matrondlis. D. V. Partial flower-stalks the length 

 of the calyx. Leaves egg- spear-shaped, toothed. 



1 Anthos, a flower, and cheir, a hand, Gr. 



