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should be taken up with a ball of earth to each, and then planted nine inches or a foot apart every way, in light 
rich soil ; care being taken to shade them and water them well, till they are settled in their new situation, and 
begin to grow. The transplanted stocks, however, are never so fine as those left to pass the winter in the seed- 
bed. When the cold weather sets in, the beds should be covered with half hoops and mats, or hand glasses, or 
flower-pots put over the plants ; as though they will live through the winter without any protection, they amply 
repay, by their increased beauty, any care taken of them at that season. In March, if the weather be open, the 
coverings may be removed ; and the plants may be either again transplanted, or suffered to flower in the bed. 
The Brompton Stock is a native of England, and several parts of Europe ; and the species was formerly 
known under the names of the Stock Gilliflower, and the Queen's Gilliflower — the latter word being supposed 
to be a corruption of July-flower, or Jolie-fleur. In the middle counties of England the wallflower is always 
called the gilliflower. The name of wallflower alludes to its growing wild on walls. 
Specific Character. — Stem somewhat erect, herbaceous, branched ; 
leaves oblong, downy, lower ones sinuated ; siliques compressed, 
velvety, and muricated with glands. (G. Don.) 
2.— MATHIOLA SINUATA, R. Br. THE GREAT SEA-STOCK. 
Stnonymes. — Cheiranthus sinuatus, Lin. ; C. tricuspidatus, Huds. ; 
C, muricatus, Lam. ; Hesperis sinuata, Lam, 
Engravings.— Eng. Bot. t. 462 ; 2nd edit. t. 948, and our fig. 3 
in Plate 19. 
Description, &c. — This species is known by its deeply-notched leaves, and flowers of a dingy pink, which 
become sweet-scented in the evening. It is found on the sandy sea-shore of Cornwall and Wales, and various 
parts of Europe ; and the whole plant has a bitter, alkaline taste. This species is of easy culture in any deep 
sandy soil ; it flowers in August, and groT7s about two feet high. 
OTHER SPECIES OF MATHIOLA. 
M. TARTARICA, Dec. 
Flowers of a livid purplish yellow; a native of the south of Tartary, on rocks : introduced in 1826. This 
grows from one to three feet high ; the leaves are grey with soft down ; and the root is fusiform and fleshy. 
M. COKONOPIFOLIA, Dec. 
A native of Sicily, introduced in 1818 ; with dingy livid flowers, and hoary, pinnatifid leaves. 
GENUS XVIII, 
CHEIRANTHUS, Zm. THE WALL-FLOWER. 
Lin. Sysi. TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. 
Generic Character.— Siliquee terete, or compressed. Stigmas two-lobed, or capitate. Calyx bisaccate at the base. Seeds in one series, 
ovate, compressed. 
Description, &C. — ^This genus, which takes its name from two Greek words, signifying hand-flower, was 
formerly much more extensive than it now is, as Linnaeus included it in the Stocks, and several allied genera. 
The species now left in the genus are mostly greenhouse shrubs. All the species require rich and yet light soil, 
and they are all abundant flowerers. 
