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shattered ruin, the Cheiranthus cheiri of botanists, the 
wallflower of commerce; the other Hesperis matro- 
nalis, L., the dame’s violet. 
But in Shakespeare's day the term “gilloflower " was 
applied to many of the pinks. Stevens mentions 
Provence gilloflowers and Indian gilloflowers, which 
may be closely allied to carnations. It will be 
advisable, perhaps, to consider them under the 
heading of the clove pink, Dianthus caryophyllus, L. 
This plant, which is found wild through Belgium 
and France, Italy, Hungary, and Greece, is only a 
naturalized plant in Great Britain, where it grows on 
old castle walls, but from it have descended the 
innumerable beautiful hybrids of our modern 
gardens. 
Perdita apparently disliked flowers which had 
been produced merely by the skill of the gardener, 
and there is a good deal to be said for her objection ; 
they rarely gain elegance of habit by man's improve¬ 
ment. 
Streaked gilly-flowers, 
Which some call nature’s bastards : of that kind 
Our rustic garden’s barren, and I care not 
To get slips of them. 
I’ll not put 
The dibble in earth to set one slip of them. 
Winter’s Tale, IV. iv. 81. 
Turn from the garden to the sandy hedge bank and 
copse, and we may find a spotted plant of exceeding 
ill fame, verdant in its peculiar glaucous green and 
white dainty umbels. It is the Conium maculatum of 
Linnaeus. In the two passages (Henry V., V. ii. 45) it 
is classed with darnel and fumitory, and again in 
King I.ear, IV. iv. 4, it appears in much the same com¬ 
pany, and it is just the company in which the plant 
makes itself thoroughly at home. 
