TETRAD YNAMIA. SILIQUOSA. Erysimum. 775 
ERYS'IMUM.* (Pod four-sided: Cal. closed: Summit a knob, 
often two-lobed : Seeds not bordered. E.) 
E. allia'ria. Leaves heart-shaped. 
(E. Bot. 796. E.)— Ludw. 77 — FI. Dan. 935— Curt. 144— Kniph. 3—> 
Woodv. 245— Wale. — Fuchs. 104— J. B. ii. 883— Lonic. i. 160. 2 — Trag. 
86— Matth. 843 — Dod. 68 6—Lob. Ohs. 285. 3, and Ic. i. 530. 1— Ger. 
Em. 794— Park. 112. 5—11. Ox. iii. 10. 6—Ger. 650—Pet. 45. 1— 
Blackw. 372. 
(Whole plant smooth, shining, having a strong smell of garlick. Pods very 
long, awl-shaped. FI. Brit. Stem about a foot high, cylindrical, up¬ 
right, scored, leafy. E.) Leaves bluntly and irregularly serrated, 
veined, alternate, on leaf-stalks. Flowers in a corymbus, (white. Cal. 
whitish. E.) Nectary glands four, one on the outside of each pair of 
longer stamens, and one supporting each of the short stamens. 
Jack-by-the-hedge. Sauce-alone. Garlick Hedge-mustard. (Irish: 
Bo Cicineall; Gairleog Coilleagh. Welsh: Arfog arllegog; Troed yr 
asen. E.) Hedges, ditch banks, and shady places. B. May.f 
E. cheiranthoides. Stem much branched: leaves spear-shaped, 
oblique, waved and obscurely toothed: (pods erect, on spreading 
stalks. £.) 
Jacq. Austr. 23 — (E. Bot. 942. E.)— Kniph. 11 — FI. Dan. 923 — Lob. Ohs. 
112. 1, and Ic. i. 225. 1 —Ger. Em. 273. 4 —Park. S68. 3 — H. Ox. iii. 5. 7 
Pet. 45. 2—J. B. ii. 894. 1. 
Seeds oblong, yellowish brown, intensely bitter. Ray. Stem one to two 
feet high, or more, rough, stiff, quite straight, scored. Leaves narrow, 
roughish, the mid-rib running down the stem, the uppermost sometimes 
a little toothed. Blossom small, yellow. (Cal. whitish. The partial 
Jlower-stalks become horizontal as the fruit increases, but the pods 
themselves, an inch long, with valves internally downy, stand erect, and 
are square, tipped with a minute sessile stigma. Sm. E.) 
(M. Courtois reports that a proliferous variety of this plant has been per¬ 
petuated for several years in the Botanic Garden of Liege. E.) 
Treacle Worm-seed or Hedge-mustard. Osier-holts, and banks of 
the river near Ely; Ashbourn, Derbyshire; and corn-fields about Elden, 
Suffolk. Very common amongst turnips near Bungay. Mr. Woodward. 
Ballast Hills, Sunderland. Mr. Weighed. (Near the parsonage at 
Slinfold, Sussex. Mr. Borrer, in Bot. Guide. Not rare in Norfolk. Mr. 
Crowe. By the road near Ipswich leading towards Norwich. Sir J. E. 
Smith. By the Mole at Brockham, Surry. Mr. Winch. At the head of 
Loch na Gaul, in Mull. Dr. Walker. Hook. Scot. E.) A. July .X 
* (From Ipv'w, to draw; because of the astringent virtues of these herbs. E.) 
*]* The Prussians eat the leaves with salted meats in spiing.—They are useful with 
lettuce and the colder salads. The seeds excite sneezing. Cows and goats eat it 
Horses sheep, and swine refuse it. Curculio Alliuria feeds upon it. Linn.—When grow¬ 
ing in poultry yards fowls eat it, and it communicates an intolerably rank taste to their flesh. 
In England, it is sometimes eaten with bread and butter, and in Wales much used as a 
frying herb. (It is considered a powerful diaphoretic, diuretic, and antiscorbutic. E.) 
X Country people give the seeds to destroy worms, and with good effect.—Horses, 
cows, goats, sheep, and swine eat it. 
