Hookeriane. N. O. Crucifere. 
TAB. DCLXXXVI. 
CaRDAMINE CoryMBoOsA, Hook. fil. 
Hirsutula v. glabra, caulibus perbrevibus rigidis ad basin ra- 
mosis, ramis gracilibus flexuosis diffusis parce foliosis, foliis 
longe petiolatis pinnatisectis, foliolis 3-5 sub-petiolulatis 
rotundatis terminali majore lateralibus remotis seepe minutis, 
floribus corymboso-fasciculatis axillaribus v. terminalibus, 
corymbis nunc proliferis, pedicellis brevibus demum valde 
elongatis, siliquis anguste linearibus in stylum brevem 
attenuatis, replo angusto, valvis planis, stigmate minuto. 
Cardamine corymbosa. Hook. fil. Fl. Antarct. v. 1, p. 6. 
Has. Campbell’s Island. On turfy ground near the sea, com- 
mon. 
This is a small and very distinct species of Cardamine, wiry 
and fragile in every part. The stems short, or, rather at once, . 
after springing from the collum, divided into spreading, ascend- 
ing, filiform branches, with few and small leaves; and with 
corymbs, or, more correctly speaking, fascicles of flowers, 
which at no period seem to constitute a raceme. Occasionally 
even the flower is solitary and axillary ; generally, several rise 
together from the side or apex of a stem, subtended by a leaf; 
sometimes, a pedicel appears proliferous, running out into a 
Stem, and bearing a fascicle or corymb and a leaf at its apex, 
so that the inflorescence has little the appearance of that of a 
Cruciferous plant. J. D. H. 
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