186 TETRADYNAMIA— SILIQUOSA. Cardamine. 



1. D. bidhifera, Bulbiferous Coralwort. 



Lower leaves pinnated ; upper simple, with axillary bulbs. 



Dentaria bulbifera. Linn. Sp. PL 912. Willd. v. 3. 479. Fl. 



Br. 696. Engl Bot. v, 5. t. 309. Blacks. Harefield, 23. Fnrst. 



Tonhr. 77. DeCand. Syst. v. 2. 278. Fl, Dan. f. 36 J . Ger. 



Em. 984./ Lob. Ic. 687./. 

 D. n. 470. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 204. 

 D. quavta baccifera. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 121./ 

 D. seu Coralloides Cordi. Gesn. Ic. Pict.fasc. \.3.t. 2./ 3. 

 Cardamine bulbifera. Br.in Jit. H. Kew.v A. lOl. Hook. Scot. ]9S. 

 Coralloidis alia species. Cord. Hist. 151, 2./ 



In moist umbrageous places, rare. 



Near Mayfield, Sussex. Parkinson. In the Old Park Wood, near 

 Harefield, Middlesex, abundantly. Blackstone. In woods be- 

 tween Beconsfield and Wickham, plentifully. Huds. On the 

 north sides of the High Rocks, Tonbridge \A''ells, and elsewhere 

 in that neighbourhood. Forster. 



Perennial. April, May. 



Root whitish, toothed, creeping horizontally, branched and sub- 

 divided. Stems from the terminal buds of the preceding year, 

 solitary, erect, leafy, from 1|- to 2 feet high. Leaves alternate, 

 bright'green ; several of the lowermost pinnatje, of 5 leaflets ; 

 others ternate ; upper ones simple ; all lanceolate, acute, va- 

 riously serrated, accompanied for the most part with ovate, dark 

 purple, scaly, axillary bulbs, by which the plant is propagated. 

 Fl. purple, corymbose, large and handsome, inodorous, hardly 

 ever perfecting' pods or seed, the bulbs furnishing an ample in- 

 crease. 



332. CARDAMINE. Ladies'-smock. 



Linn. Gen. 338: Juss. 239. Fl.Br.696. DeCand. Syst. v. 2 245, 

 Tourn. t, 109. Lam. t. 562. Gcertn. t. 143. 



CaL a little unequal at the base ; leaves ovate-oblong, ob- 

 tuse, slightly spreading, deciduous, 2 of them protube- 

 rant, in some degree, below their insertion. Pet. obo- 

 vate, rather upright, undivided, tapering at the base into 

 short claws. Filam. awl-shaped, simple, the 2 shortest 

 with a gland at the base, next the calyx. Anth. small, 

 oblong-heart-shaped, acute, recurved. Germ, linear, 

 slender. Style scarcely any. Stigma obtuse, entire. 

 Pod sessile, erect, linear, compressed laterally ; valves 

 flat, without ribs, scarcely narrower than the bordered 

 partition, bursting elastically from the base, and mostly 

 revolute. Seeds ovate, not bordered, inserted alternately 

 in a single row ; their stalks simple, short and slender ; 

 cotyledons accumbent. 



