CHEIRANTHUS TENUIFO'LIUS. 
FINE-LEAVED WALL-FLOWER. 
Class. Order. 
TETRADYNAMIA. SILIQUOSA. 
Natural Order. 
CRUCIFER.*. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Madeira. 
15 inches. 
May, June. 
Perennial. 
in 1777. 
No. 558. 
For the derivation of Cheiranthus, see No. 518. 
Tenuifolius, from the Latin tenuis, signifying thin 
or slender; and folium a leaf. 
The W all-flower, as the cheerful emblem of spring, 
is the welcome attendant on the mansion and the 
cottage; and to the crumbling battlement of decay- 
ing strength and grandeur, it seems to be the nat- 
ural and sympathizing companion. Phillips says, 
‘In floral language the Wall-flower stands as the 
emblem of fidelity in misfortune, because it attaches 
itself to the desolate, and enlivens the ruins which 
time and neglect would otherwise have rendered ter- 
rible- It hides the savage strokes of feudal times 
on the castle walls, fills the space of the wanted stone 
in the mouldering church, and wreaths a garland 
on the crumbling monument no longer noticed by 
friendly relatives. 
The present species of Cheiranthus is rarely met 
with, notwithstanding its clear yellow flowers are 
very pleasing. Our drawing was taken from a seed- 
ling plant, raised in the open ground, in the preced- 
ing autumn; and was, of course, more diminutive 
than one of mature growth. 
Don’s Syst. Bot. v. 1. 154. 
