190 TETRADYNAMIA— SILIQUOSA. Cardamine. 



S. cardamine tertia Dodonaei, Dalech. Hist. 659. /; copied in 



Bauh.Hist.v.2.SS9.f. 1. 

 Flos Cuculi. Dod. Pempt. 592./; not good ; copied in Dalech. 



Hist. 6o9./. 3 ; and reprinted in Ger. Em. 259./. 2. 



Common in meadows and moist pastures. 



Perennial. April, May. 



Root tuberous, somewhat toothed in the mannerof the genus Den- 

 taria, to which the affinity of this species is remarkable, see Fl. 

 Br. and Engl. Bat., and with which therefore the accurate Mr. 

 Brown has united the whole genus ; see Dentaria. Herb variable 

 in luxuriance ; generally smooth, of a shining green ; now and 

 then a little hairy. Stem about a foot high, or more, round, leafy, 

 simple. Radical leaves several, on long stalks, each of one or 

 more pairs of roundish,, or heart-shaped, wavy, angular, or 

 toothed leaflets, sometimes viviparous, the terminal one largest -, 

 stem-leaves of more numerous^ and much narrower, leci/lets, which 

 are in general linear, entire, and smooth. Fl. corymbose, nu- 

 merous, large and handsome, either light ])urple, flesh-coloured, 

 or white ; sometimes more or less double. The petals are re- 

 markable for a tooth, or notch, on the claw, noticed in Haller, 

 but not from his own observation. Pods not often perfected. 

 Style more prominent than in some other species. 



The Jiowers, recent or dried, have been reported tQcure Epilepsy, 

 but unhappily do not deserve such credit. They are agreeably 

 pungent, and may be eaten with other herbs in a salad. They 

 come with the Cuckoo, whence one of their English, as well as 

 Latin, names ; and they cover the meadows as with linen bleach- 

 ing, which is supposed to be the origin of the other, now ex- 

 tended to the whole genus. They are associated with pleasant 

 ideas of spring, and join with the White Saxifrage, the Cowslip, 

 Primrose, and Hare-bell, lo compose many a rustic nosegay. 



5. C. amara. Bitter Ladies'-smock. 



Leaves pinnate, without stipulas ; leaflets of the lowermost 

 roundish ; of the rest toothed or angular. Stem creeping 

 at the base. Style obliquely elongated. 



C. amara. Linn. Sp. PI. 9X5. mild.v. 3. 488. Fl.Br.699. Engl. 



Bot. V. 14. t. 1000. Curt. Lond.fasc. 3. t. 39. Hook. Scot. 1 98. 



DeCand. Syst. v. 2. 255. ViUars Dauph. v. 3. 362. ^.39. 

 C. n. 4/4. Hall. Hist. V. 1.206. 

 C. flore majore elatior. Raii Syn. 299. 

 Sisymbrium Cardamine, sive Nasturtium aquaticum, flore majore, 



elatius. Bauh. Hist. v. 2.88b. f. 

 Nasturtium aquaticum majus et amarum. Bauh. Pin. 104. Prodr. 



45. f. Moris. V. 2.224. 

 Bitter Cress. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 47. f. 1 . 



In watery places, by the sides of rivers and brooks, but not common. 



