Tab. 7628. 

 CARDAMINE latipolia. 



Native of the Pyrenees and S. Italy. 



Nat. Ord. Crucifer,*:.— Tribe Arabide.e. 

 Genus Cardamine, Linn.; (Benth. & Eoolc.f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 70.) 



Cardamine latifolia ; elata, robusta, glaberrima, rhizomate ramoso nodoso, 

 foliia 6-10 poll, longis lyrato-pinnatisectis, segmentis deorsum accres- 

 centibusrepando-subcrenatis crassiusculis glaberrimis v. ciliatis, lateralibus 

 paucis distantibns orbicularis, terminali multo majorerotundato-reniform, 

 superioribus trifoliolatis, inflorescentia erecta paniculata multiflora 

 floribus f poll. diam. ad apices ramorum subcorymbosis, pedicellis . polli- 

 earibus, sepalis oblongis glaberrimis, petalis roseo-lilacinis raro albis, 

 antheris oblongis flavis, siliquis 1^ pollicaribus erectis strictis \ poll, latis 

 stylo brevi terminatis, stigmate obtuso, valvis enerviis, seminibus 

 nnmerosis late oblongis fuscis, radicula obliqua accumbente. 



C. latifolia, Vahl, Symb. vol. ii. p. 77. DC. Fl. Franc. Ed. 3, vol. iv. p. 683. 

 Loisel. Fl. Gall. vol. ii. p. 84. Duly, Bot. Gall. p. 32. Lapeyr. Hist. 

 Abr&ge PI. Pyren. p. 683. Benth. Cat. PI. Pyren. p. 66. Gren $■ Go&r. 

 Fl. Franc, vol. i. p. 108. Willk. 3r Lange, Prodr. Fl. JJisp. vol. iii. 

 p. 824 Amo, Fl. Fanerog. Esp. et Port. vol. vi. p. 551. Groenl. in 

 Bev. Hortic. 1880, p. 460, 6gs. 93, 94. 



C. Chelidonii, Lam. Diet. vol. ii. p. 183. 



0. raphanifolia, Pourr. in Mem. Acad. Tout. vol. iii. (1788) p. 310. 



0. pratensis, Tenore, Viagg. in Abruz. 1830, p. 77 (ex Gay in lib. Kew). 



C. pratensis, |3. calabrica, Tenore, Syll. Fl. Neap. p. 319. 



Cardamine latifolia resembles a gigantic form of the 

 common Lady's Smock (0. pratensis). It is a native of 

 the alpine valleys of the Pyrenees, growing by streams, 

 and delighting in the spray of cataracts, as on the Prats 

 de Mollo, Pas de Roland, Vallee de Viella, and the Republic 

 of Andorre. It also occurs in a very remote locality from 

 these, namely the mountains of Calabria in the South of 

 Italy. It is well distinguished from C. pratensis by its 

 great size, and the absence of pinnatifid upper leaves with 

 narrow segments. The specimen here 'figured grows in 

 the Rock Garden of the Royal Gardens, where it flowers 

 annually in May. 



Descr. — Eootstoch branching, nodose. Stem twelve to 

 eighteen inches high, stout, green, striate, paniculately 

 branched above. Leaves rather fleshy, bright green, lower 



December 1st, 1898. 



