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The Cardamines, again, the big Cuckoo-pints, are 
handsome if large and stout—for a damp out of the way 
place beyond the bog, where larger things have sway. 
Bulbifera has fine fern-like foliage and loose spikes of large 
pale purple cruciform flowers; enneaphylla is more 
brilliant ; digitata is very free-growing and weed-like, 
recalling an exaggerated Lady’s smock ; and the double 
form of this, Cardamine pratensis, itself, is quite a 
pretty little creature, choicer than the others, free- 
growing in any decent place, and coming not only abun- 
dantly but faithfully from seed. But over nearly all 
Crucifers lies the trail of the weed or the coarse vege- 
table; the giant cabbage Crambe cordifolia, eight feet 
across the vast mass of its rounded leaves, and send- 
ing up to ten feet or more the snow-white fountain 
of its innumerable little blossoms, is the glory of this 
ugly race at one end of the scale, a fine, easy plant 
for some very high point, in any good rich soil. At 
the other end are the delightful miniatures, Morisia, 
Iberidella, Petrocallis. And not unworthy of being 
associated with these is the charming Cardamine tri- 
folia, most choice for a cool shady place under the rock ; 
forming a neat mass of very dark green leaves triply 
divided and about three inches from the ground. From 
this sombre carpet rise many six-inch spikes of large 
flowers, brilliantly white, and arranged daintily upon 
their stems. In earliest summer this plant lights up its 
corner with a clear gleam recalling the fierce white light 
that beats upon a throne. 
Parochaetus communis is a Himalyan, a strange ramp- 
ing trailer, that by general ageement, thrives best with 
damp treatment. In appearance its long, prostrate 
shoots are exactly like those of some clover, but the big 
blossoms are borne by themselves on long pedicels, and 
are pea-flowers of a rich and faultless azure. This lovely 
