Parietaria

Pellitory. In botany, a rien of the cla polygam i a, order monoecia. Herm.: calyx four-cleft; stamens four; style one; seed one, superior, covered with the elongated calyx. Fem.: stamen le . Ten species; chiefly of the Cape, India, and south of Europe: one, P. officinal is, common to the walls of our own country. The only cultivated species is P. arboreum, tree pellitory, a soft upright shrub of a man’s height, with ‘red shoots, villose with hoary hairs; flowers commonly three, clustered, from: the axil of each bracte, se ile; in the male yellow, in the feniale red, herbaceous. A native of the Canaries.