. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. 290 CHEILANTHES DDD. -Z/is. covered ieneath •fith both scales and , Desv. (C. (legans, Desv.). Lvs. denselycespitose from short, erect, scaly rootstocks, 3-9 , beside the chestnut-colored scaly stems ; tri-quadripinnatifid : ultimate segments minute, innumer-able. Tex., Ariz, and Trop. Amer. Another
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. 290 CHEILANTHES DDD. -Z/is. covered ieneath •fith both scales and , Desv. (C. (legans, Desv.). Lvs. denselycespitose from short, erect, scaly rootstocks, 3-9 , beside the chestnut-colored scaly stems ; tri-quadripinnatifid : ultimate segments minute, innumer-able. Tex., Ariz, and Trop. Amer. Another native species worthy of cultivation is Link, from Tex., with broadly deltoid-ovateleaves. L. M. Underwood. CHEIBANTHUS (derivation in dispute, but probablyfrom Greek for Aa«d and rtoicer). Cruciferw. A dozenor more Old World herbs, with large purple or yellow. fls., entire lvs., and a strict or upright habit. Lateralsepals sac-like at the base : valves of the pod with astrong midnerve. Much confounded with Matthiola, andthe genera are not sitfiiciently distinct. In Cheiranthus,the lvs. are acute, stigma more spreading, pod moreflattened and seeds not thin-edged. Chelri, Linn. Wallflower. Fig. 424. Perennial,slightly pubescent, l-2}4 ft.: lvs. lanceolate and entire,acute : fls. large, mostly in shades of yellow, in long,terminal racemes. S. Eu.—An old garden favorite,blooming in spring. Although a woody perennial, it isbest to renew the plants from seed, for they begin tofail after having bloomed one or two years. Seedlingsshould bloom the second year. There are dwarf and CHENOPODIUM double-fld. varieties, and innumerable forms in variousshades of yellow, brownish, and even purple. Notprized so much in Amer. as in Eu. It thrives in anygood garden soil. C. dnnuxis, ^Matthiola, but early-blooming forms ofC. Cheiri seem to pass under th
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