156 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
GENUS X-CARDAMINE. Linn. 
Sepals slightly spreading, equal at the base. Petals equal, 
entire, with long claws. Filaments without wings or teeth. Pod 
linear, cylindrical or tapering, compressed; valves without con- 
spicuous nerves, opening suddenly with a spring, and rolling back- 
wards from the base. Style conical, sometimes very short. Stigma 
entire or slightly 2-lobed. Replum transparent. Seeds com- 
pressed, not winged. 
Perennial or annual herbs, often glabrous. Leaves pinnate 
or simple, alternate, sometimes opposite or in whorls of 3. 
Flowers purplish or white, disposed in corymbs or short racemes 
which afterwards elongate. 
French, Cardamine. German, Schaumkraut. 
The name is derived from xapd.a (kardia), the heart, and oe (damao), to subdue, 
in allusion to the stomachic qualities of the species. 
Susn-Genus IL—DENTARIA. 
Pod tapering from near the base to the apex. Seed stalk 
(funiculus) dilated Cotyledons with the margins involute. 
Herbs with scaly rhizomes and pinnate or digitate leaves, some- 
times in a whorl of 3. 
SPECIES I—CARDAMINE BULBIFERA. 
Pratt CVII.* 
Dentaria bulbifera, Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. II. Zetr. Tab, XXXI. Fig. 4318. 
Dentaria bulbifera, Auct. Plur. 
Rootstock creeping, scaly. Leaves pinnate, with 5 to 7 ellip- 
tical, crenate-serrate or entire leaflets; uppermost leaves entire ; 
leaf axils producing bulbs. Petals with an oblong spreading 
limb. 
In woods. Very local. Tonbridge Wells; Harefield, Middlesex, 
and some places in the neighbourhood in Buckinghamshire ; and in 
Herts. Reported from Ayrshire, and also ‘near Duplin, on the 
banks of the Esk, Scotland, but scarcely wild” (Brit. Fl.). It is 
marked on Mr. Moore’s list of Irish plants. Mr. H. Trimen has 
* The Plate is E. B. 309, unaltered. 
