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valuable medicinal properties, making them useful in hysteria and epilepsy. In 1767 
Sir George Baker read a paper before the College of Physicians on the application of 
this plant ; and we have an accurate account of the preparation of these flowers by 
toasting them on pewter dishes over a fire, and boiling the powder in bottles covered 
and stopped with leather, “on no account with a cork.” Withering suggests that it 
may act sometimes by destroying intestinal worms, and thus accounts for its efficacy 
in epilepsies and other diseases resulting from this cause. 
SPECIES IV—CARDAMINE HIRSUTA. Linn. 
Pirates CX. CXI. 
Rootstock short, creeping, or none. Leaves pinnate, with 7 to 
13 leaflets, which are roundish, and slightly angulated in the lower, 
but oval, oblong, or strap-shaped, and often entire, in the upper 
leaves ; petioles of the stem leaves without fringed auricles. Petals 
erect, oblanceolate, about twice as long as the sepals, and about 
one-fourth longer than the stamens. Pod linear, terminated by a 
style equal to or shorter than the breadth of the pod. 
Hairy-leaved Ladies’ Smock. 
French, Cardamine Velue 
Sup-Specres .—Cardamine eu-hirsuta. 
Puate CX.* 
C. hirsuta, Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. II. Zetr. Tab. XX VI. Fig. 4304. 
C. hirsuta, Act. Plur. 
Rootstock none. Radical leaves in a rosette, with larger 
leaflets than those of the stem leaves. Stamens generally only 4. 
Young pods usually rising considerably above the corymb of 
flowers. Style equal in length to about half the breadth of 
the pod. 
On wall-tops and sandy places, and in clearings in woods. 
Common throughout Britain. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Spring, Summer. 
Stems dividing into several close to the base, 6 to 12 inches high, 
erect, the lateral ones curved below. Radical leaves numerous, 
forming a rosette. Leaflets usually stalked, roundish, bluntly 
angled, + to 4 inch across; the terminal one a little larger than 
the others. Stem leaves generally few, with the leaflets smaller, 
* The Plate is drawn for the present edition by Mr. J. E. Sowerby from a dried 
specimen from Musselburgh, 
