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(SEA STOCK. E.) PRICKLY-PODDED GILLIFLOWER. (Welsh: Murwyll tewbannog arfor. Matthiola sinuata. Br. E.) Sandy sea shores of Carnarvonshire, Anglesey, and Cornwall, and on the rocks at Aberdovie, Merionethshire. Ray. (Near Pembroke. J. Adams, Esq. Fl. Brit. E.) B. June-Aug. (C. INCA NUS. Stem shrubby, upright, branched: leaves spear-shaped, INCA ́NUS. blunt, entire, hoary: pods without glands.

E. Bot. 1935–Mill. Ill. 55.

Stem two feet high, branched, round, leafy, hoary with pubescence, as is all the herbage. Leaves tapering at the base. Flowers in terminal bunches, fragrant, naturally of a purplish crimson, often double. Petals rounded and nearly entire, their claws pale and greenish. Pods long, cylindrical, hoary; their points a little elongated, but simple, blunt, and crowned with the permanent dilated stigma. Seeds numerous. E. Bot. HOARY SHRUBBY STOCK. (Matthiola incana. Br. E.) Discovered by Mr. Dawson Turner, and Mr. W. Borrer in 1806, on the cliffs to the east of Hastings, growing on rocky ledges accessible only to a person let down from the summit by a rope. Such is likewise its natural situation in the south of Europe. B. June-July. E.)*

HES PERIS.+

Petals oblique: Glands within the shorter stamens: Calyx closed: Pod angular, stiff and straight : Summit forked, with converging lobes.

(H. MATRONA LIS. Stem upright: leaves egg-spear-shaped, toothed: petals blunt: pods irregularly tumid. E.)

(E. Bot. 731. E.)—Jacq. Austr. 347-Fl. Dan. 924 and 921-Rupp. a. Hall. at p. 78—J. B. ii. 878. 2—Clus. i. 297. 1—Dod. 161. 1—Lob. Obs. 175. 1, and Ic. i. 323. 2-Ger. Em. 462. 1-Park. 1682. 3-H. Ox. iii. 10, row 1. 1.

Stem hairy, about two feet high, simple or branched. Leaves hairy, irregularly tooth-serrated, either sessile or on short leaf-stalks; not halberdshaped, rather occasionally subcordate. Flowers large, purplish red, in a terminal spike-like bunch. Petals rounded at the end. Fruit-stalks expanding. Sp. pl. refers the fig. of Dod. 161 to H. matronalis, and that of Clus. i. 297. 1. to H. inodora; but these figures, being both impressions from the same block, a doubt arises whether these two species are really distinct. Specimens which I collected in Cornwall agree perfectly with the fig. of Jacquin and the Flora Danica. (It is now generally agreed that they are one and the same species, with due preference to the original trivial name: the secondary one, indeed, proving inapplicable, as the plant, by no means renouncing its classical generic title, exhales an agreeable fragrance in the evening, and also, it must be admitted, in a moist atmosphere during the day. E.)

(By cultivation this species becomes the Queen's Stock, rivalling in size and beauty the celebrated Brompton Stock. Phalana meticulosa and Pronuba are nourished by the above species. E.)

† (From impos, HESPER or Vesper: as though dedicated to the Erening Star, and greeting her ascension with a rich perfume. E.)

(A peculiarity thus figuratively improved.

"Nay, let our shadowy beauty bloom

When the stars give quiet light;

And let us offer our faint perfume

On the silent shrine of night.

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DAME'S VIOLET. (H. matronalis. Linn. Lightf. Br. Willd. De Cand. Hook. Sm. Grev. H. inodora. Linn. Huds. With. Jacq. Oed. Willd. Fl. Brit. E.) Pastures and hedges. On the banks of rivulets about Dalehead, Cumberland, and Grassmere, Westmoreland. Ray. About Falmouth. (At Southover, near Lewes, Sussex. Mr. Borrer. Near the old castle of Airly, Angus-shire. Mr. J. Mackay, in Fl. Brit. About Dover. Mr. W. Christy. Bank below Arthur's Seat. Mr. Arnott. Leith. Mr. J. Stewart. Grev. Edin. E.)

Water of P. May-June. A'RABIS. Glands four, within the leafits of the calyx: Pod long, compressed, strap-shaped: (Seeds in a single row.

E.)

A. THALIA'NA. (Leaves hairy, more or less toothed: radical ones stalked, oblong: stamens not much shorter than the petals: stem branched: pods pointing upwards. Sm. E.)

Curt.-(E. Bot. 901-Fl. Dan. 1106. E.)-Pollich. ii. at p. 243-Pluk. 80. 2-J. B. ii. 870. 2-H. Ox. iii. 7. 5-Pet. 48. 2-Thal. 7. D-Pet. 48. 1 -Barr. 269 and 270.

Root-leaves disposed in a circle on the ground, hairy; those of the stem nearly smooth. Flowers small, white. Hall. Stem one inch to more than a foot high. Leaves, hairs at the base simple, those on the edges and surface dividing into two or three forks. Nectary glands so very minute as scarcely to be discovered even with a magnifier. Curt. (Pods about an inch long, slightly curved. After scattering its seeds in May it soon withers and disappears. E. Bot. E.)

(COMMON WALL CRESS. TURKEY-POD. Welsh: Berfain cyffredin. E.) (A. April. E.) Walls, roofs, dry pastures and corn-fields.

A. STRICTA. (Leaves toothed, obtuse, bristly: those of the root lyrate. those of the stem semiamplexcaul, oblong: pods two-edged, upright: stems hairy, calyx smooth. E.)

(PLATE Xxiii.-Hook. Fl. Lond.-E. Bot. 614. E.)-Velley Mar. Pl. (gigantic.)

(Root branched. Stems several, three to five inches high, herbaceous, simple, (or the central one sometimes branched upwards, in the older plants ligneous, two or three inches long, slender, upright, cylindrical, hairy at the base, smooth above. Root-leaves many, inciso-dentate, one to two inches long; rough with long, white, rigid hairs; stem-leaves three or four, more entire, nearly strap-shaped, less rough. Flowers in bunches, large, white. Fruit-stalks short. Petals inversely egg-shaped, very entire; as long again as the calyx. Pods upright, stiff and straight, in a more advanced state longer, and slightly curved, one and a half inch long, two-edged, quadrangular at the base, striated. E.) Glands forming a kind of ring round the base of the stamens. Hall.

Call it not wasted-the breath we lend
To the breeze when no step is nigh;
Oh! thus for ever the earth should send
Her grateful breath on high.

And love us as emblems, night's dewy flowers,

Of hopes unto sorrow giv'u,

That spring through the gloom of the darkest hours,
Looking alone to Heav'n!" E.)

(BRISTOL OF ST. VINCENT'S ROCK CRESS. E.) Cardamine_pumila Bellidis folio, alpina. R. Syn. 300. Arabis arenosa. Scop. n. 837. Rocks and stony mountainous situations. (St. Vincent's Rocks, near Bristol. On the south side of the river, about a mile below the Hot-wells. Mr. W. Clayfield. After several unproductive searches for this rare, and not very conspicuous plant, on May-day 1827, the Editor had the pleasure to observe it growing above the rocks within a few yards of the flag-staff on the sea-walls, Durdham Down. It is found imbedded on smooth patches of turf, and affects an eastern exposure. Of the station recorded by Hutchinson, Kirkland Fell pasture, Cumberland; Mr. Winch doubts the accuracy. E.) P. May. (A. HIS PIDA. Root-leaves notched, lyre-shaped, hispid, tufted: stemleaves spear-shaped, covered with forked hairs: stems smooth, branched from the root: petals spreading.

E. Bot. t. 469-(Fl. Dan. 1462. fid. Sm. E.)—Dill. Elth. 61. 71-Pet. 50. 3 -Lightf. 347. t. 15. f. 2—Pluk. Phyt. t. 101. f. 3.

(Roots rather woody, matted together. Stems several, about a span high, ascending, furrowed, bearing few leaves. Root-leaves about half an inch long, sometimes smooth, numerous, on leaf-stalks, winged. Blossoms small, purple, often white with a purplish border, in clusters much elongated after flowering. Calyx blunt, smooth, membranous at the edge. E.)

ALPINE OF WELSH ROCK CRESS. A. hispida. Linn. Sm. Willd. Br. Hook. Cardamine petræa. Huds. Lightf. With. Ed. 3 and 4. C. hastulata. E. Bot. at least Smith assures us, on comparing many specimens communicated by Mr. Bingley, that no difference exists but that of the leaves being almost entirely smooth, and less lobed, than they are commonly found in A. hispida. E.) Lofty rocks in Carnarvonshire, as Moelyn-rhud, near Festiniog; Clogwyn dû 'r Arddû, and Clogwyn y Garnedd, near Llanberris; and on moist rocks above the Lake Lyn-dû, in great plenty. Mr. Griffith. By the first mile-stone from Shrewsbury to Welsh Pool. Mr. Aikin. (Middleton Dale, Derbyshire. Mr. Coke. Ravine of the Screes, near Wast-water, Cumberland, about 600 feet in perpendicular height. Mr. Wood. On several Highland mountains, as Craig Cailleach, in Breadalbane; Baikeval, in the isle of Rum, abundantly. Hooker, in Fl. Scot. E.) P. May-July.

(A. CILIA'TA. Leaves somewhat toothed, oval, smooth, ciliated: radical ones nearly sessile, obtuse; those of the stem semiamplexicaul: stem undivided. Br.

E. Bot. 1746.

Stem cylindrical, smooth, four to six inches high. Root-leaves forming a small tuft, often reddish. All the leaves smooth an both sides; those of the stem small. Blossoms white, forming a terminal cluster. Cal. tawny, edged with white, half the length of the petals. Pods upright. FRINGED ROCK CRESS. A. ciliata. Br. in Ait. Hook. De Cand. Sm.

Tur

ritis ciliata. Willd. T. alpina. Linn. Willd. E. Bot. On cliffs near the sea, rare. By the sea at Rinville, Cunnamara, in the west of Ireland. Mr. J. T. Mackay. Eng. Fl. Rocks near Loch Lea, in Glen Esk. Mr. G. Don. Hook. Scot. B. July-Aug. E.)

A. TURRITA. Leaves clasping the stem: pods recurved unilaterally, flat, strap-shaped: calyx somewhat wrinkled.

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