THE BITTER- CRESS. 129 



BITTER-CRESS, CUCKOO-FLOWER, LADY'S- 



SMOCK, BREAD AND MILK. 



Carddmine pratensis. 



Welsh, Hydyf. French, Cresson, Chemise de notre Dame. 

 German, Gauchblume. Dutch, Schuimblad. Polish, Rze- 

 zuchapolna. Russian, Lugobiii. Spanish, Cardamindo. 

 Portuguese, Cardamina. 



NATURAL. 



Tetradynamia. Cruciferace. 



Pleurorhizece. 

 Arabidece. 



11 LOOKING down the meadows, I could see here a 

 boy gathering lilies and lady-smocks, and there a 

 girl cropping culverkeyes and cowslips : these, and 

 many field-flowers, so perfumed the air that I thought 

 the very meadow like that field in Sicily, of which 

 Diodorus speaks, where the perfumes arising from 

 the place, make all the dogs that hunt in it to fall 

 off, and to lose the hottest scent ; " such is one of the 

 word-pictures in which good old Isaac Walton paints 

 the spring, suggesting to us-, by a few broad touches, 

 the pleasant time when, in the words of Professor 

 Green ; 



" Dewy meadows enamelled in gold and in green, 

 With king-cups, and daisies, that all the year please, 

 Sprays, petals, and leaflets that nod in the breeze, 



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