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CARDAMINE PRATENSIS 
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LADIES-SMOCK, 
Or, CUCKOW-FLOWER. 
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Cardamine. Fharm. Lond. Is' Edw, Nafturtlum 
flore. 
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pratenfe magno 
majus feu Cardamine latifolia. 
Nafturtium pratenfe fylveftre. y* B, 2. 889. Cardamine. Gerard. 
Baiih, Pin. 104. Nafturtium pratenfe 
Park. 825. Iberis Fuchfii feu 
Rait. Hlfl. Sp. 2. p. 814. Synop. 299. Cardamine foliis pinnatis 
radicalibus fubrotundis, caulinis linearibus. HaL No. 473. 
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damine pratenfis. Wilb. Bot. Arrang. 688. 
255, Curt. Flor. Lond. ^ Floribus fimplicibus. ^ Floribus plenis 
Clafs Tetradynamia. Ord, Siliquofa. L. Gen. Plant. 812. 
EJf. Gen. Cb. Siliqua elafti 
ce dilliliens valvulis revolutis. 
Stigma 
integrum 
CaL fubhians. 
Sp. Ch, 
C. foliis pinnatis: foliolis radicalibus fubrotundis 
lanceolatis. 
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caulinis 
THE root is perennial, branched, and fends off many long round 
fibres; the ftalk is ered, round, fmooth, fometimes branched towards 
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leaves are pinnated 
radical leaves frequently wanting, otherwife fpreading in an orbicular 
the top, and rifes about nine inches high 
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with roundiih pinnae, which are dentated, or cut 
feveral 
irregular unequal angles; the leaves upon the ftalk are ered, and 
confift of four or five pair of pinnse, which are narrow, fpear-fhaped, 
concave, pointed, and the odd or terminal leafits are the largeft: the 
flowers terminate the ftem 
clufter or racemus, and ftand upon 
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fmooth naked peduncles ; the calyx is compofed of four fcaly leaves, 
which are oblong, obtufe, concave, deciduous, and alternately pro- 
tuberant at the bafe; the corolla is cruciform, and of a purpliih 
white colour; the petals are obverfely veined, fomewhat notched 
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