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Dentaria pentaphylla. Five-leaved 

 Tooth-wort. 



CZass awd Order. 



Tetradynamia Siliquosa. 



Generic Character. 



Siliqua elastice dissiliens valvulis revolutis. Stigma in- 

 tegrum. Cal. longitudinaliter connivens. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Dentaria pentaphyllos ; foliis digitatis. Hort. Kew. ed. I. 



v. 2. p. 387. mild. Sp. PL 3. p. 480. Persoon Syn. 



2 p. 195. 

 Dentaria foliis summis digitatis. Sp. PL 912. 

 Dentaria digitata. Lam. Encycl. 2. p. 268. D. C. fior. 



jranc. 4. p. 686. 

 Cardamine pentaphylla ; caule simplicissimo apice triphyllo, 



foliis quinato-digitatis: foliolis elliptico-Ianceolatis in- 



Ciso-serratis, corolla staminibus duplo longiore. Hort. 



Krw. erf. alt. 4 p. 101. 

 Dentaria pentaphylla foliis mollioribus. Garid. Prov. 152. 



t. 29. 

 Dentaria foliis quinis digitatis. Hall. Hist. n. 469. 

 Dentaria pentaphyllos. Bauh. pin. 322. Clus. Hist. 2. p. 



16^./: 1. and 2. /, , 



Saxifraga montana, radice squamis s. nodis denticulatis m- 



signis. Gesn fasc. \.t.\.f. I. fig. opt. 

 Viola dentaria prima. Dod. Pempt. 162. fig. bona. 

 Alabastrites nemoralis alpina herbariorum. Lob. ic. 



686. /: I. 



The genus Dentaria has been united by Mr. Brown, in 

 the Hon us Kewens.s, to that of Cardamine. But there is 

 something in the general aspect of all the species hitherto 

 referred to Dentaria, so peculiarly different from Cardamine, 



to 



