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CARDAMINE ASARIFOLIA. KIDNEY-LEAVED 
LADIES-SMOCK. 
TEER EEE Oe RE SE Ea eae ae ee sete 
Clafs and Order. 
' .TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. 
Generic Charafier. 
Siliqua linearis marginibus truncatis: valvis planis enervibus 
(elaftice fapius diffilientibus), diflepimento anguftioribus. Brown, 
in Hort. Kew. : PS A ce 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
CARDAMINE afarifolia; foliis fimplicibus reniformibus. Hort. 
Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 102. ee 
CARDAMINE afarifolia ; foliis fimplicibus fubcordatis. Sp. 
Pl. 913. Willd. 3. p. 482. Perfoon Syn. 2. p.195. Allioni 
Piedem. n. 948. Crantz Cruc. 128. 
CARDAMINE montana, Afari folio. Tournef. Inft. p. 225. 
NASTURTIUM montanum, afari folio. Bocc. Sicil. 5. ¢. 3. 
Herm. Parad, 203, cum Icone.* Raj. Hit. 816. 
NASTURTIUM alpinum, paluftre rotundifolium, radice fer- 
pente. Mori/. Hif. 2. p.224. 
This rare alpine plant was communicated by Mr. Sweet, 
late of the Stockwell nurfery. It is a native of the Italian Alps, 
and occurs plentifully in the rocky beds of the torrents at the 
foot of Mount Cenis. 
A hardy perennial, flowers in May, June, and July. Said 
in the former edition of Arron’s Hortus Kewenfis to have 
been introduced into this country in 1775, by AntHony 
Cuamier, Efg. but in the new edition, it is obferved to have 
been cultivated in 1710; being one of the plants recorded to 
have been delivered to the Royal Society from the garden be- 
longing to the Apothecaries Company at Chelfea. But it is the 
fate of moft alpine plants, to be foon loft, unlefs particular care 
be taken to preferve them. : ; : 
All the Carpamines poffefs an antifcorbutic quality ; and - 
this fpecies is faid by Attronr to be much uled in the cure of 
fcurvy, in the diftriéts where it abounds. 
_ As this grows naturally in wet places, it fhould, in the fummer 
time, have plenty of water; or the pot in which it is planted 
thould tly ftand in a pan of water. re” 
