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stigma capitate. 1 . H. B. Native throughout Europe in humid 

 meadows ; plentiful in Britain, also in the north of Asia and in 

 North America about Hudson's Bay, Behring's Straits, in fact, 

 throughout Arctic America. Lam. ill. t. 562. f. 1. Smith, engl. 

 bot. 776. Curt. lond. t. 40. Woodv. med. bot. t. 30. Fl. dan. 

 1039. Schkuhr. handb. 2. t. 187. Flowers usually pink, some- 

 times they are to be seen white and purplish. A very common 

 and variable plant. Root tuberous, like those of Dentaria, 

 which this species greatly resembles in habit. 



Far. /3, jlore plena ; flowers double and pink. Clus. hist. 2. 

 p. 129. f. 1. Bauh. hist. 2. p. 889. f. 2. 



Var. y, grandiflora (C. Bauh. pin. 104.) flowers large, white. 



Far. S, debllis (D. C. syst. 2. p. 257.) stem weak ; segments 

 of the upper leaves very narrow. 



Far. e, stolonifera (D. C. 1. c.). C. pratensis monstrosa, Naun- 

 burg in Rcem. arch. 2. p. 14. t. 2. 



Far. , angustifolia (Hook. fl. bor. amer. 1. p. 45.) leaflets of 

 radical leaves lanceolate, tapering to the base, almost entire. 

 Native of Igloolik and others of the islands in the Arctic sea. 



This plant was long ago employed as a diuretic, and it has 

 been again introduced in nervous diseases, such as epilepsy, 

 hysteria, .chorea, and asthma, &c. A drachm or two of the 

 powder of the dried flowers is given twice or thrice a-day. It 

 has little sensible operation, except that it sometimes acts as a 

 diaphoretic. The flowers and leaves are agreeably pungent, and 

 may be eaten with other herbs in a salad. They come with the 

 cuckoo, whence one of its English names cuckoo-Jlomer, and 

 they cover the meadows as with linen bleaching, which is sup- 

 posed to be the origin of the other English name, now extended 

 to the whole genus, Lady's Smock. 



Meadow Lady's-Smock or Cuckoo Flower. Fl. April, May. 

 Britain. PI. 1 to l foot. 



29 C. DENTA'TA (Schult. obs. no. 968.) leaves pinnate; seg- 

 ments stalked, those of the radical leaves are roundish, of the 

 stem oblong and narrowed at the base, the terminal one wedge- 

 shaped ; pods obliquely erect, only equalling the breadth of the 

 style. "If. . H. B. Native of Galicia, Volhynia, and Podolia in 

 marshes along banks of rivers and brooks. C. Buchtormensis, 

 Willd. ined. Flowers white like those of C. amara or C. uliginbsa. 

 Runners creeping. 



Tooled-leaved Lady's-Smock. Fl. April, May. Clt. 1823. 

 PI. 1 foot. 



30 C. PENNSYLVA'NICA (Muhl. cat. p. 60.) leaves pinnate, 

 or pinnately-lyrate ; lobes oval, angularly-toothed, blunt ; stem 

 erect ; petals oblong ; stigma minute, almost sessile, linear. 

 I/ . H. B. Native of North America in low meadows from New 

 York to Pennsylvania, Poir. suppl. 2. p. 395. Pursh, fl. bor. 

 amer. 2. p. 440. Flowers small, white ; petals oblong-linear, a 

 little longer than the calyx. 



Pennsyhanian Lady 's-Smock. Fl. May, Ju. Clt. 1818. PI. 1 ft. 



31 C. VIRGI'NICA (Lin. spec. 915.) leaves pinnate ; segments 

 lanceolate, somewhat auricled ; stem erect ; pods long, strictly 

 erect. If. . H. B. Native of North America in low meadows 

 from Canada to Carolina. A'rabis Virginica, Poir. suppl. 1. 

 p. 413. Pet. gen. t. 105. f. 18. Pluk. aim. 251. t. 101. f. 4. 

 Flowers white ? 



Virginian Lady's Smock. Fl. May, June. PI. -| foot. 



32 C. FLA'CCIDA (Cham, et Schlecht. in Linnaea. 1. p. 21.) 

 stems branched, prostrate, flagelliform, rooting ; leaves pinnate ; 

 leaflets angular or toothed, stalked ; pedicels spreading, lower 

 ones furnished with bracteas ; siliques erect. 1. H. Native 

 of Chile in humid grassy places. Flowers small, white, in short 

 racemes. Leaves with 1-2 pair of leaflets and an .odd one. 



F/acci<-stemmed Lady's-Smock. PI. creeping. 



33 C. ? TE'RES (Mich, fl.bor. amer. 2. p. 29.) leaves pinnate- 

 parted, lyrate ; lobes oval-oblong, terminal one somewhat 3- 



VOL. i. PART it. 



lobed ; pods short, erect, terete. It . H. W. Native of North 

 America in inundated places from New England to New York. 

 Flowers unknown. Perhaps a species of Nasturtium. 



Terete-podded Lady's-Smock. Fl. May, July. PI. \ foot. 



34 C. HIRSU V TA (Lin. spec. 915.) leaves pinnate ; segments of 

 the radical leaves stalked, roundish, mucronate, entire or notched ; 

 petals oblong ; stigmas minute, almost sessile ; pods spreading, 

 smooth, but sometimes pilose. O- H.B. Native of waste ground, 

 especially in moist shady places, very frequent throughout 

 Europe, Tauria, and Persia, also of North America ; plen- 

 tiful in Britain. Smith, engl. bot. t. 492. Curt. lond. 4. t. 48. 

 Scop. earn. ed. 2. no. 817. t. 38. Schkuhr. handb. 2. t. 187. 

 Stok. mat. med. 3. p. 445. C. flexuosa, With. brit. 578. C. 

 parviflora, Lightf. fl. scot. 1104. C. impatiens, fl. dan. t. 735. 

 Flowers in corymbs, white. Dr. Hooker considers C. Pennsyl- 

 vdnica and C. Virginica to he identical with this species. 



Far. /3, maxima (D. C. syst. 2. p. 260.) C. hirsuta maxima, 

 Fisch. cat. hort. gorenk. 1808. p. 81. Plant large. 



Far. y, prolifera (D. C. 1. c.). St. Hil. not Orl. p. 35. 

 Calyx 3-flowered. 



Hairy Lady's-Smock. Fl. May, June. Brit. PI. to 1 ft. 



35 C. SYLVA'TICA (Link, in Hoffm. phyt. blatt. l.p. 50.) leaves 

 pinnate ; segments regularly sinuate-toothed, mucronate ; petals 

 oblong ; pods spreading, equalling the breadth of the style, and 

 are as well as branches smooth. O- H. Native throughout 

 Europe in woods in moist places. Perhaps also in Britain, mixed 

 with C. hirsuta. Flowers white, a little larger than those of C. 

 hirsuta. C. hirsuta, Web. spec.gcet. p. 18. C. muscosa, Vahl. herb. 



Wood Lady's Smock. Fl. May, Ju. Clt. 1822. PI. J to 1 ft. 



36 C. UMBRO'SA (Andrz. cruc. ined. D. C. syst. 2. p. 260.) 

 leaves pinnate, cut ; segments entire, mucronate ; petals oblong ; 

 pods rather spreading, twice longer than the breadth of the thick 

 style, which are as well as branches smooth. O- H. B. Na- 

 tive of Cevennes, Volhynia, and perhaps may be found every 

 where mixed with C. hirsuta and C. sylvdtica in woods. Very 

 like C. hirsuta and C. sylcdtica, but the whole plant is nearly 

 smooth. Perhaps C. tenella of Clark, voy. vol. 2. is identical 

 with this. Flowers white. 



Shady Lady's-Smock. Fl. May, Ju. Clt. 1823. PI. i to 1ft. 



37 C. PARVIFLO'RA (Lin. spec. 919.) leaves pinnate-parted; 

 lobes sessile, oblong, or linear, entire, lower ones remote from 

 the stem ; petals oblong-linear ; pedicels somewhat spreading ; 

 pods erect. O- H. B. Native of France about Nantes, 

 Montpelier, in Provence, Transylvania, Russia at Tanaim, from 

 the river laico to the Oby in grassy humid places. Gmel. sib. 3. 

 p. 270. no. 37. t. 64. Wrangel, diss. Stockh. 1823. Very 

 like C. hirsuta, but more slender and decumbent. Flowers 

 small, white. 



Small-flowered Lady's-Smock. Fl. April, May. Clt. 1800. 

 PI. | foot. 



38 C. IMPA'TIENS (Lin. spec. 914.) leaves pinnate ; segments 

 oval-oblong, mostly cut, lower stem ones approximate, acute, 

 form of stipulas. Q. H. Native of shady, rather moist rocky 

 situations, in many parts of Europe and the north of Asia. 

 In the north of England under the rocks by the river side at 

 Matlock-bath, Derbyshire, and in various parts of Westmoreland 

 and Cumberland ; rare in Scotland. Smith, engl. bot. t. 80. 

 Fl. dan. 1. 1339. C. parviflora, var. /3, Lam. fl. fr. 2. p. 500. 

 C. apetala, Mcench. meth. 259. Flowers small, sometimes 

 without petals, sometimes furnished with small white oblong 

 petals. Pods, when ripe, curling up when touched. 



/3. eriocdrpa (D. C. syst. 2. p. 262.) pods pilose. C. dasy- 

 carpa, Bieb. suppl. 437. O- H. Native of Iberia. 



Impatient-podded Lady's-Smock. Fl. May, June. Britain. 

 PI. 1 to 2 feet. 



39 C. LATIFO'LIA (Vahl. symb. 2. p. 7.) leaves pinnate, 



