CRUCIFER. XIII. 
stigma capitate. %. H.B. Native throughout Europe in humid 
meadows ; plentiful in Britain, also in the-north of Asia and in 
North America about Hudson’s Bay, Behring’s Straits, in fact, 
throughout Arctic America. Lam. ill. t. 562. f. 1. Smith, engl. 
bot. 776. Curt. lond. t.40. Woodv. med. bot. t. 30. Fl. dan. 
1039. Schkuhr. handb. 2. t. 187. Flowers usually pink, some- 
times they are to be seen white and purplish. A very common 
and variable plant. Root tuberous, like those of Dentaria, 
which this species greatly resembles in habit. 
Var. B, flore plèno; flowers double and pink. Clus. hist. 2. 
p.129. f.1. Bauh. hist. 2. p. 889. f. 2 
Var. y» grandiflora (C. Bauh. pin. 104. ) flowers large, white. 
Var. 6, débilis (D. C. syst. 2. p. 257.) stem weak; segments 
of the upper leaves very narrow. 
Var. e, stolonifera (D. C. 1. c.). C. praténsis monstròsa, Naun- 
burg in Roem. arch. 2. p. 14. t. 2. 
Var. č, angustifolia (Hook. fl. bor. amer. 1. p. 45.) leaflets of 
radical leaves lanceolate, tapering to the base, almost entire. 
Native of Igloolik and others of the islands in the Arctic sea. 
This plant was long ago employed as a diuretic, and it has 
been again introduced in nervous diseases, such as epilepsy, 
hysteria, chorea, and asthma, &c. A drachm or two of the 
powder of the dried flowers is given twice or thrice a-day. It 
has little sensible operation, except that it sometimes acts as a 
diaphoretic. The flowers and leaves are agreeably pungent, and 
may be eaten with other herbs in a salad. They come with the 
cuckoo, whence. one of its English names cuckoo-flower, and 
they cover the meadows as with linen bleaching, which is sup- 
posed to be the origin of the other English name, now extended 
to the whole genus, Lady’s Smock. 
Meadow Lady’s-Smock or Cuckoo Flower. 
Britain. Pl. 1 to 14 foot. 
29 C. DENTATA (Schult. obs. no. 968.) leaves pinnate; seg- 
Fl. April, May. 
‘ments stalked, those of the radical leaves are roundish, of the, 
stem oblong and narrowed at the base, the terminal one wedge- 
shaped ; pods obliquely erect, only equalling the breadth of the 
style. 2.H.B. Native of Galicia, Volhynia, and Podolia in 
marshes along banks of rivers and brooks. C. Buchtorménsis, 
Willd. ined. Flowers white like those of C. amàra or C. uliginosa. 
Runners creeping. 
Toothed-leaved Lady’s-Smock. Fl. April, May. Clt. 1823. 
Pl. 1 foot: 
380 C. Pennsyzva’nica (Muhl. cat. p. 60.) leaves pinnate, 
or pinnately-lyrate ; lobes oval, angularly- toothed, blunt; stem 
erect; petals oblong; stigma minute, almost sessile, linear. 
Yy. H. B. Native of North America.in low meadows from New 
York to Pennsylvania, Poir. suppl. 2. p. 395. Pursh, fl. bor. 
amer. 2. p. 440. Flowers small, white; petals oblong-linear, a 
little longer than the calyx. 
Pennsylvanian Lady’s-Smock. Fl. May, Ju. Clt. 1818. Pl. 1 ft. 
31 C. Virer’nica (Lin. spec. 915.) leaves pinnate; segments 
lanceolate, somewhat auricled; stem erect; pods long, strictly 
erect. UY. H. B. Native of North America in low meadows 
from Canada to Carolina. A’rabis Virginica, Poir. suppl. 1. 
p. 413.—Pet. gen. t. 105. f.18. Pluk. alm. 251. t. 101. f. 4. 
Flowers white ? 
Virginian Lady’s Smock. Fl. May, June. PI. } foot. 
32 C. FLA'CCIDA (Cham. et Schlecht. in Linæa. 1. p- 21.) 
stems branched, prostrate, flagelliform, rooting ; leaves pinnate ; 
leaflets angular or toothed, stalked; pedicels spreading, lower 
ones furnished with bracteas ; siliques erect. %. H. Native 
of Chile in humid grassy places. Flowers small, white, in short 
racemes. Leaves with 1-2 pair of leaflets and an odd one. 
Flaccid-stemmed Lady’s-Smock. Pl. creeping. 
33 C.? re'res (Mich. fl. bor. amer. 2. p. 29.) leaves pinnate- 
parted, lyrate; lobes oval-oblong, terminal one somewhat 3- 
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lobed; pods short, erect, terete. 4. H. W. Native of North 
America in inundated places from New England to New York. 
Flowers unknown. Perhaps a species of Nastértium. 
Terete-podded Lady’s-Smock. Fl. May, July. Pl. 4 foot. 
34 C. urrsu‘ra (Lin. spec. 915.) leaves pinnate ; segments of 
the radical leaves stalked, roundish, mucronate, entire or notched ; 
petals oblong; stigmas minute, almost sessile ; pods spreading, 
smooth, but sometimes pilose. ©. H. B. Native of waste ground, 
especially in moist shady places, very frequent throughout 
Europe, Tauria, and Persia, also of North America; plen- 
tiful in Britain. Smith, engl. bot. t.492. Curt. lond. 4. t. 48. 
Scop. carn. ed. 2. no. 817. t. 38. Schkuhr. handb. 2. t. 187. 
Stok. mat. med. 3. p. 445. C. flexuosa, With. brit. 578. C. 
parviflora, Lightf. fl. scot. 1104. C. impatiens, fl. dan. t. 735. 
Flowers in corymbs, white. Dr. Hooker considers C. Pennsyl- 
vánica and C. Virginica to be identical with this species. 
Var. B, máxima (D. C. syst. 2. p. 260.) C. hirstita maxima, 
Fisch. cat. hort. gorenk. 1808. p. 81. Plant large. 
Var. y, prolifera (D. C. 1. ¢.). St. Hil. not Orl. p. 35. 
Calyx 3-flowered. 
Hairy Lady’s-Smock. Fl. May, June. Brit. Pl. 3 tol ft. 
35 C. sytva’tica (Link. in Hoffm. phyt. blatt. 1. p. 50.) leaves 
pinnate ; segments regularly sinuate-toothed, mucronate ; petals 
oblong; pods spreading, equalling the breadth of the style, and 
are as well as branches smooth. ©. H. Native throughout 
Europe in woods in moist places. Perhaps also in Britain, mixed 
with C. hirsita. Flowers white, a little larger than those of C. 
hirsuta. C. hirsuta, Web. spec. goet. p. 18. C. muscdsa, Vahl. herb. 
Wood Lady’s Smock. FI]. May, Ju. Clt. 1822. Pl. 4 to 1 ft. 
36 C. umpro‘sa (Andrz. cruc. ined. D.C. syst. 2. p. 260.) 
leaves pinnate, cut ; segments entire, mucronate ; petals oblong 
pods rather spreading, twice longer than the breadth of the thick 
style, which are as well as branches smooth. ©. H. B. Na- 
tive of Cevennes, Volhynia, and perhaps may be found every 
where mixed with C. hirsita and C. sylvatica in woods. Very 
like C. hirsuta and C. sylvatica, but the whole plant is nearly 
smooth. Perhaps C. tenélla of Clark, voy. vol. 2. is identical 
with this. Flowers white. 
Shady Lady’s-Smock. Fl. May, Ju. Clt. 1823. Pl. 4to 1ft. 
37 C. PARVIFLORA (Lin. spec. 919.) leaves pinnate-parted ; 
lobes sessile, oblong, or linear, entire, lower ones remote from 
the stem ; petals oblong-linear ; pedicels somewhat spreading ; 
pods erect. ©. H. B. Native of France about Nantes, 
Montpelier, in Provence, Transylv ania, Russia at Tanaim, from 
the river Iaico to the Oby in grassy humid places. Gmel. sib. 3. 
p. 270. no. 37. t. 64. Wrangel, diss. Stockh. 1823. Very 
like C. hirsùta, but more slender and decumbent. Flowers 
small, white. 
Small-flowered Lady’s-Smock. Fl. April, May. Clt. 1800. 
Pl. 3 foot. 
38 C. mPa TIENS (Lin. spec. 914.) leaves pinnate ; segments 
oval-oblong, mostly cut, lower stem ones approximate, acute, 
form of stipulas. ©. H. Native of shady, rather moist rocky 
situations, in many parts of Europe and the north of Asia. 
In the north of England under the rocks by the river side at 
Matlock-bath, Derbyshire, and in various parts of Westmoreland 
and Cumberland; rare in Scotland. Smith, engl. bot. t. 80. 
Fl. dan. t. 1339. C. parviflora, var. p, Lam. fl. fr. 2. p. 500. 
C. apétala, Moench. meth. 259. Flowers small, sometimes 
without petals, sometimes furnished with small white oblong 
petals. Pods, when ripe, curling up when touched. 
B. eriocdrpa (D.C. syst. 2. p. 262.) pods pilose. C. dasy- 
carpa, Bieb. suppl. 437. ©.H. Native of Iberia. 
Impatient-podded Lady’s-Smock. Fl. May, June. Britain. 
Pl. 1 to 2 feet. 
39 C. raro La (Vahl. 
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symb. 2. p. 7.) leaves pinnate, 
