146 BOTANICAL GAZETTE UF 
mucronate divisions, glabrous, 3°" in diameter, orbicular in 
line: bracts ovate, somewhat keeled : capsules pendent on 
or spreading slender pedicels, 15™™ long, equaling the ob 
lanceolate capsules; these tipped with a persistent style 
long, and a tufted stigma: seeds orbicular, black, in t 
Type locality: “in montibus Altaicis Sibiriae.’’ According to 
ion and the figure in Ledebour the corolla is purple and ne 
CRUCIFERAE. 
73. CARDAMINE BELLIDIFOLIA L. Sp. Pl. 654. 1753-—-@ 
branched from a fibrous coated rootstock (the fibers bers the 
petioles of former leaves): glabrous throughout: stems 
high, slender: radical and lower cauline leaves on long 
petioles, 1-2°™ long with ovate or orbicular blades 4-6 
upper stem leaves sessile or occasionally with short p 
flowers white, in corymbs lengthening to racemes, on 
long, which become somewhat longer in fruit: sepa!s- 
purplish, with white margins, oblong, about 2mm lon 
white, cuneate, 4™ long, 2™™ wide, tapering to” 
short and stout: pods too young to describe. 
oy range: “in — kee Helvetiae, Brittaniae- 
: ‘ones Sede: subiow hrcushn with eret 
high; radical and lower cauline leaves of three to” 
petiolulate leaflets 5-8™™" broad, the lobes” with | 
petioles equaling or longer than the blades, 
cauline leaves with 3-5 oblanceolate entire petio late 
5-8™" long, callous-tipped : inflorescence corymbose 
ing to a raceme 9™ long; pedicels flattened, beco , 
sepals broadly oblong, yellow, margined with w ite, 
3-nerved, 3.5™™ long, 2™™" wide, slightly bulla 
broadly spatulate, tapering gradually from the ro 
to the base of the claw: immature pods very sler 
narrowed at each end, but expanding under t 
This seems to be intermediate between C. pratensis I 
Ch. & Schl., but is distinctly different from either. Sis 
sometimes — and soli —,: = 
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