. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. Cnifjfei'cr—Cheiranthns. 45 scription nor recommendation. The varieties it has given birth to are innumerable. Yellow, orange, purple, brown, and variegated single and double flowers occur. The Rocket Wallflowers form a distinct race, with long narrow flower- spikes. Though probably not indigenous, it is now found in many parts of Britain. The figure is
. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. Cnifjfei'cr—Cheiranthns. 45 scription nor recommendation. The varieties it has given birth to are innumerable. Yellow, orange, purple, brown, and variegated single and double flowers occur. The Rocket Wallflowers form a distinct race, with long narrow flower- spikes. Though probably not indigenous, it is now found in many parts of Britain. The figure is more characteristic of the wild than the cultivated form. 2. CA. Marshdllii, syn. Erysimiim.— A dwarf shrubby plant with evergreen leaves and a profusion of large fragrant orange-coloured flowers. It continues in flower from April till July. Supposed to be of hybrid origin, between the common Wallflower and Ch. alplnus. 3. Gh. alplnus.—A dwarf species about 6 inches high, with remotely toothed leaves and an abundance of pale yellow flowers. Summer. Mountains of Europe. 3. ARABIS. Annual or perennial herbs, often witli large rosettes of leaves, glabrous or hairy. Eadical leaves spathulate, cauline sessile. Flowers white, more rarely purple. Pod linear, compressed, keeled, not elastic; seeds compressed in 1 or 2 series. Species numerous, chiefly from the tem- perate and arctic regions of the northern hemisphere. The name is from Arabia, the native country of some species. 1. A. cilbida, syn. A. Gancdsica.—Very common in old gar- dens, and a very hardy Spring flowering plant. It grows in patches with slender running stems and rosettes of pale green spathulate toothed leaves clothed with greyish hairs. Flowers pure white, in elongating racemes on leafy erect stems. There is a very pretty variegated variety. Mediterranean re- gion, etc. A. alplna is probably an alpine form of this species. 2. A. blepharophylla.—Similar to the preceding in habit and foliage, but with rosy-
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