CULPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBAL

COMMON WALL-FLOWER

Description. The root is divided into a number of long straggling parts, each furnished with numerous fibres. The stalk is round, firm, upright, hard, and very much branched. The leaves are long, narrow, and of a fresh green; they have no footstalks; they adhere by the base, and tehy are undivided at the edges. The flowers grow in a kind of spikes at the top of the stalks and branches: and they are large, yellow, and sweet-scented. The pods are long, slender, and whitish; the seeds are flatted and small.

Place. It is common on old walls, and in some places on rocks; and has thence, for its beauty and fragrance, been introduced into gardens, where the flower, and indeed the whole plant, grow much larger than in the wild state.

Time. It flowers in July.