Cardamine.] viii. crucifer.e. C9 



Victoria. Spriugy shady localities in damp valleys, from the lowlands to tlic alps, F. 

 Mueller, 



Tasmania- Abuudaut ia damp ravines and by waysides througliout the island, /. B. 



SooJcer. 



W, Australia, BruDwwnd, 71. 94, and Wi Coll. n. 285. 



In flower the smaller specimens often resemble C. tenuifoliaj but are more erect and less 

 Drauched. The seeds are very different. 



3. C. radicata, Ilook.f. in Hook, Ic. PL i. S82. Ehizomes or procuni- 

 ueut root-like stems elongated, cylindrical and brittle, sometimes as thick as 

 the little finger, prodncing at their extremity tufts of leaves and leafy erect 

 flowering branches 2 to 6 in. high. Leaves pctiolate, obovate, coarsely 

 toothed or almost pinnatifid, not auricled at the base, glabrous as well as the 

 ^^ilole plant. Flowers (which I have not seen) rather large, Pruiting ra- 

 cemes short and dense, often leafy at the base. Pod usually | in. long and 

 fully 2 lines broad. Seeds mucli compressed, irregularly orbicular, not pitted. 

 — Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 18. 



Tasmania. Snmmit of Mount Olympus, in crevices of basaltic columns, Gunn ; in 

 crevices of rocks on a mnimtnin wpcfivnr/l nf MnMiit T,nnp\ rouse. Rprh. i\ Mueller, 



rarely entire or toothed only, the stem-leaves when present few and narrow. 



flowers very small, the narrow erect petals scarcely longer tlian tlie calyx. 



stamens usually 4 only. Fruiting raceme very loose, witli distant, slender, 



spreading pedicels. Pods slender! 1 to U in. long. Seeds orbicular, not 

 pitted. 



N. S. Wales. New England, near Clifton, C. Sluart. 



Victoria. In marshy places, chiefly in rich soil, not rare. Used as food by the Mur- 

 J^y^natives, F. Mueller. ' ^ ' ^ 



8. Australia. Lake Alexandrina Gawler river. Bugle range, the Onkapannga and 

 ^orrcns nvers, etc., rather frequent, F. Mueller. 



5. C. tenuifoUa, Ilooh. Journ. Sot. i. 247. Generally if not always 

 Pereumal, with a slender creeping rhizome, which often dies away so as to 

 give the tufts the appe;u-ance of an aiuuial. Stems weak, branching and 

 bWbrous or rarely hirsute, like those of C. hirsuta bat usually longer, some- 

 ^raes attaining 1 to 1^ ft. Leaves pinnattly divided, the lower ones usually 

 . ""/I terminal, broadly ovate, orbicular, or cordate segment, entire or coarsely 

 joothcd. the lateral segments smaller, few, distant, and nil pctiolate, the upper 



aves or sometimes all the stem -leaves with narrow-linear segments, more 

 n.uiuerous and more equal than in the lower ones, and usually entire and ses- 



"e ; m some specimens the leaves are all crowded at the base of the other- 

 ^se leafless scapes. Flowers rather large, white or lilac, the laminrc of tlie 

 Ftals obovate and spreading. Fruiting racemes loose, the pedicels not very 



Pleading. Pods usually erect, narrow, \ to 1 in. long, tipped by a slender 



'}'e otten 1 \ lines long. Seeds nearly orbicular, smooth.— C hlactua, Hook. 



