MALCOMIA MARITTMA. 
MEDITERRANEAN STOCK. 
Class. 
TETRADYNAMIA. 
Order. 
SILIQUOSA. 
Natural Order. 
CRUCIFERiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
S. Europe. 
8 inches. 
May, June. 
Annual. 
in 1773. 
No. 196. 
The term Malcomia, instituted in honour of Wil- 
liam Malcolm, of the Kensington Nursery, near 
London, was first used by Brown, in the Hortus 
Kewensis, to distinguish a genus of plants which he 
separated from Cheiranthus and Hesperis. Our pre- 
sent subject was previously the Cheiranthus mariti- 
ma; and commonly known as the Virginian Stock; 
which latter name Curtis, thirty years ago, pro- 
nounced as erroneous, from the plant having no 
connection with Virginia, being indigenous to the 
coast of the Mediterranean. Maritima, is from the 
Latin, in allusion to its usual maritime situation, or 
growth near the sea. 
Though this little annual may be common, still 
every one who regards a plant for its own attractions 
will admire it. And it possesses the valuable quali- 
fications not only of easy culture, but also of yielding 
its flowers to ornament the borders at almost any 
time required. If sown in autumn it will flower very 
early in spring. A succession al crop may be sown 
in February; and by monthly sowings till Midsum- 
mer, a display of its changeable little flowers may be 
continued all the summer. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 4, 291 . 
