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CarpAMINE Trirotia. Turee-LEAvED 
: Cucxow-FLower. 
Clafs and Order. 
-TetTRapYNAMIA SILIQuosa. 
Generic Chara&er. 
Siliqua elaftice diffiliens valvulis revolutis. Stigma integrum. 
- Cal, fubhians. 
_ Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. : 
CARDAMINE trifolia foliis ternatis obtufis, caule fubnudo. 
Linn, Syft. Vegetab, ed. 14. Murr. p. 593. Ait. 
Kew. v. 2. p. 387. | 
NASTURTIUM alpinum'trifolium. Baxb. Pin, 104. 3 
CARDAMINE trifolia. Trefoile Ladies {mockes. Parkin/. 
| Parad. p. 389. ee 
‘Such as are attached to the fmaller alpine plants, will re- 
gard this fpecies of Cardamine as worthy a place in their col- 
le€tions; one would fearcely have expetted to find it in- 
Parkinson's Parad. yet there it is defcribed, and the fol- 
lowing account given of its introduction: “ It was fent me by 
* my efpecial good friend Joun Trapescante, who brought 
* it among other dainty plants from beyond the feas, and im- 
“parted thereof aroottome.” | 
This f{pecies is perennial, hardy, and of very humble — 
growth ; the leaves grow. thickly together, forming a kind of 
tuft; the flowering ftems rarely rife above the height of fix 
inches, and produce on their’ fummits ‘numerous - flowers, - 
waved on their edges ; all thofe which we have had an oppor-— 
tunity of feeing have been perfeétly white, ParKINson and 
Hacer defcribe them as being fometimes tinged with red or 
purple; they begin to appear towards the end of March and 
Continue through April, the fhelter of a hand-glafs open at — 
top is often neceffary to prote@ and improve the flowering of 
this and other fuch early-blowing plants.  —~ 2 
It grows readily either in a pot or in the open border, fuc- 
ceeds beft when planted in bog earth in a fituation moderately 
moift and fhady, and is readily increafed by parting its roots, 
which are fomewhat of the creeping kind. | dhs 
Grows fpontaneoufly in moft of the northern parts of © 
Europe, efpecially Lapland, Switzerland, and Auftria, — 
