WALL-EYED PIKE, or GLASS-EYE, one of the pike-perch (Stieostedion vitreans) of the central part of the United States, so called in reference to its large staring eyes; also absurdly called salmon or jack-salmon in some parts of the South. Its body is elongate, back arched, head subconic, long; cheeks, gill-covers and top of head more scaly; dorsal spines high; dark olive, mottled with brassy; sides of head vermiculated; first dorsal fin with a large black patch on the hinder margin. Length one to three feet. It reaches its greatest development and abundance in the Great Lakes region and upper Mississippi, but is also found southward, eastward and northward to Georgia, Pennsyl vania and Assiniboia, respectively. In lakes it inhabits the deep holes or areas where the bottom has been scoured by inflowing streams. In rivers it loves to hide under logs and rocks in the deep holes beneath dams and falls and amid swiftly flowing waters. It is a predaceous fish and devours all smaller species. The wall eyed pike is a prolific spawner and great num bers of the fish congregate on shallow, well cleaned bottoms for this purpose. Bec,ause of the fine quality of its flesh and the large size (10 to •30 pounds) which it attains, this fish is highly valued and in the Great La1ces region ranks next to the white-fish in commercial im portance. The smaller sand-pilce or sauger (S.
canadense) has a similar but less extended distribution and similar habits. Consult Jordan and Evermann, (American Food and Game Fishes) (New York 1902).
a cruciferous herb (Cheiranthus cheiri) of southern Europe, where it blooms on rocicy cliffs and walls. The plant itself is not handsome, having crowded, hvisted, lanceolate leaves, but is cultivated for the sake of its flowers, which are large and in short, hed-like, terminal racemes. The petals are four, clawed and spreading, have a velvety sur face and range in color through all shades of yellow and orange to a rich mahogany brown. They are frequently variegated with these hues, and might be the ((streaked gilly-flowers, which some call nature's bastards,'" scorned by Perdita, of the (Winter's Tale.' One of their common names, moreover, is gilly-flowers or wall-gilly flowers. Wall-flowers are biennials, blooming from early spring until autumn, and are offered for sale in French and English cities during the winter. They have a strong and delicious odor of violets.
The native wall-flower of Australia is a leguminous plant (Pultencea daphnoides). In the United States, a cruciferous plant of dry plains, -with orange-yellow large flowers, is known as the western wall-flower (Erysimum asperum).