TETRADYNAMIA— SILIQUOSA. Cardamine. 187 



Herbs of more humble stature than the last genus, of va- 

 rious duration and magnitude, generally smooth. Leaves 

 either undivided, cut, lobed, or pinnated. Roots fibrous, 

 or somewhat toothed. Fl. either small and white, some- 

 times wanting the petals and shorter stamens ,- or pale 

 rose-coloured and larger. Species numerous, natives of 

 various countries, generally preferring watery situations. 



* Leaves simple. 



1. C bellidifolia. Daisy-leaved Ladies'-smock. 



Leaves simple, ovate, slightly wavy, entire ; the radical ones 

 much shorter than their footstalks. Style short, conical, 



C. bellidifolia. Linn. Sp. PL 913. Fl. Lapp. ed. 2. 222. t. 9./. 2. 



fVilld. V. 3. 481. fVith. 577. Fl. Br. 697. Engl. Bot. v. 33. 



t. 2355. Hook. Scot. 199. DeCand. Syst. v. 2. 249. Fl. Dan. 



t.20. Jacq. Misc. v.\. 148. t.\7.f.2. Jllion. Pedem.v. 1.26Q. 



if. 18./. 3. 

 C. n. 476 a. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 207. 



In moist, grassy, lofty, alpine pastures. 



Gathered wild in Scotland by Mr. Milne. Withering. No person 

 besides seems to have met with it. 



Perennial. August. 



Root rather woody, divided at the crown. Herb 2 or 3 inches 

 high, unbranched, erect, bright green, smooth. Leaves some- 

 times a little wavy or angular, the uppermost nearly sessile. Fl. 

 few, corymbose. Cal. purplish. Pet. white, erect. Pods hardly 

 an inch long, crowned with the capitate stigma, on a short thick 

 style. 



** Leaves pinnate. 



2. C. impatiens. Impatient Ladies'-smock. 



Leaves pinnate ; leaflets lanceolate, mostly cut. Stipulas 

 fringed. 



C. impatiens. Linn. Sp. Pl.9\A. mild. v. 3. 485. Fl.Br.697. 



Engl. Bot. V. 2. t. 80. Hook. Scot. 198. DeCand. Syst.v. 2.261. 



Ehrh. Herb. 87. Fl. Dan. t. 1 339. 

 C. n. 471. Hall. Hist. v.l. 20b. 



C. impatiens, vulgo Sium minus impatiens. Rail Syn.299. 

 Sium minus impatiens. Ger. Em. 260. f. 

 S. minimum. Jlpin. Exot. 332. t.33l. 

 Sisymbrii Cardamines species quaedam insipida. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 



886./. 

 Nasturtium minimum annuum, flore albo. Moris, r. 2. 221 . sect. 3. 



t.4.f.\. 

 Impatient Cress. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 47. f. 7. 



