Cruciferce A rabis. 



The variegated form is very beautiful, and now very extensively 

 used for edging. A native of Hungary, flowering in the month 

 of June. 



A. Androsace and A. procurrens are very small alpine 

 perennials with white flowers ; and A. verna is a pretty annual 

 with blue flowers. 



4 CARDAMlNE. 



Usually glabrous plants having pinnate leaves and white, 

 lilac or purple flowers. It differs from Arabis in its pod being 

 indistinctly keeled, with elastic valves. There are about fifty 

 species, spread over the cold and temperate regions of both 

 hemispheres. The name is derived from Ka^aov^ cress. 



Fig. 35. Lunaria biennis. (J nat. size.) 



Fig. 34. Cardamine latifolia. (I nat. size.) 



1. G. pratensis. Lady's Smock or Cuckoo Flower. A pretty 

 though exceedingly common indigenous early-blooming peren- 

 nial, with lilac or white flowers, of which there is a double 

 variety in cultivation, occasionally found wild in wet situations. 



