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This plant is plentiful in early spring, as is also the 

 "Hairy Bitter-cress" which it so much resembles. 

 It is to he found in moist meadows ; has flowers rather 

 larger than the Wall-flower of a blush-color, and 

 delicately veined with lilac. It is sometimes found 

 double; when its leaflets occasionally produce new 

 plants ; striking roots into the ground, whilst still 

 attached to the parent plant. 



WATER- CRESSES. (Nesturtium officinalis,) is a 

 plant of the same tribe : and considered so wholsome a 

 vegetable, that it is cultivated in numerous streams, in 

 many counties around London, for the London market 

 alone. The flower of the garden, usually called Nas- 

 turtium, (but properly, a Trvpiolum,) was so named 

 from the leaves and stalks having a flavor not unlike 

 that of water-cresses. 



We will now examine a dear little plant in the 

 second tribe ; with a short pod or pouch, (silicula.) 

 Bring the whole plant : root and ripe seeds, will not 

 make it too heavy to carry the largest plants being 

 only four inches high ; whilst the smallest, do not 

 exceed an inch in height, when full grown! But 

 though so small, we can see its distinguishing dif- 



