TETRADYNAMIA. SILIQUOSA. Cheiranthus. 777 
C. sinua'tus. (Stem herbaceous, spreading : leaves downy, glandular, 
obtuse, somewhat indented, those of the branches entire: pods 
rough with prominent glands. E.) 
(2?. Bot. 462. E.)— Lob. Adv. 140, and Ic. i. 330. 2— Ger. Em. 460. 2— 
Ger. 374. 2 —J. B. ii. 876. 1. 
Whole plant cottony, hoary. Stem upright, (two feet high, branched, 
spreading, leafy. E.) Root-leaves broad, spear-shaped, alternately 
toothed, blunt; stem-leaves spear-shaped, blunt, channelled, with two 
pair of blunt teeth about the middle; branch-leaves entire, not toothed. 
Petals flesh-coloured, blunt, whitish at the base. Pods several inches 
long, glandular. Flowers large, fragrant only in the evening. 
But none which impart a more delightful fragrance than the wild one : to which a highly 
gifted northern bard beautifully alludes in describing the early days of the “grandame’s 
child : ” 
“ And well the lonely infant knew 
Recesses where the Wall-flower grew. 
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I deem’d such nooks the sweetest shade 
The sun in all his round survey’d.” Marmion Introd. Canto iii. 
And again with the same fond, yet judicious partiality, 
“ The rude stone fence with fragrant Wall-flowers gay, 
To me more pleasure yield 
Than all the pomp imperial domes display.” 
The Wall-flower has been considered the emblem of fidelity in misfortune, because it 
attaches itself to the desolate, and enlivens the ruins which time and neglect would other¬ 
wise render repulsive. It conceals the savage, records of feudal times by decorating the 
castle walls ; occupies the painful void of the mouldering abbey; and weaves a garland on 
the dilapidated monument, deserted even by grateful memory. 
“For this obedient zephyrs bear 
Her light seeds round yon turret’s mould ; 
And, undispers’d by tempests there. 
They rise in vegetable gold.” Langhorne. 
Or, as elegantly expressed by another poet of nature, 
te But thou, neglected Wall-flower , to my breast 
And muse art dearest, wildest, sweetest flower ! 
To whom alone the privilege is given 
Proudly to root thyself above the rest. 
As genius does, and, from thy rocky tower, 
Lend fragrance to the purest breath of heaven.” 
Herrick, w T lio (more antiquorum ) would attribute every thing agreeable to the passion 
of love; with an ingenuity and pathos scarcely inferior to those of his classical prototypes, 
ascribes the origin and very name of this favourite flower, to the adventurous spirit of a fair 
damsel, (long detained in durance vile), who, braving all perils to steal an interview with 
her “sprightly springal,” 
“ Up she got upon a wall, 
Tempting down to slide withal: 
But the silken twist untied, 
So she fell, and bruised, she died. 
Love, in pity of the deed, 
And her loving, luckless speed. 
Turned her to this plant, we call 
Now the Flower of the wallfl £.) ; 
