TETRADYNAMIA— SILIQUOSA. Cardamine. 189 



or quite linear, obtuse, generally entire, but in this respect, as 

 well as in length, they vary. Fl. small, white, corymbose. Two 

 shorter stamens often wanting. Pods in long clusters, erect, 

 slender, smooth, or occasionally hairy, their valves undulated by 

 the projection of the seeds j stigma almost sessile. 



Whatever the C. sijlvatica, umbrosa and parvi/lora of other authors 

 may be, the Linnaean parviflora is clearly a distinct species, with 

 all its leaflets oblong and nearly entire, the stem bushy ; the 

 pods shorter, with a more evident style. This plant is well re- 

 presented in Gmelins Fl. Sibirica, v. 3. t. 64. I know nothing 

 like it in Britain. We have most assuredly only one species as 

 above described, nor have I any other from Switzerland, Haller's 

 n. 472 /3, confused in his Nomcnclator with n. 4/3, being truly 

 a variety, and by no means the genuine parviflora. I have his 

 4/2 in various states from the Rev. Mr. DuCros, who remarks 

 that flowers with 4, 5, or 6 stamens grow on the same plant. 



To account for the strange error in Fl. Dan., where this species is 

 named C. impatiens, we must recollect that after Oeder gave up 

 the publication of that work, the editors merely named the plants 

 from a view of the drawings, in too hasty and superficial a man- 

 ner, calling Mentha hirsuta Origanum vulgare; Cardamine ama- 

 ra, 1. 148, (which Haller quotes t. 48,) C. hirsuta; the true hir- 

 suta, not adverting to its obvious wantof stipulas, C. impatiens-, 

 nor are these all the errors of a similar kind that might be 

 pointed out ; see Raphanus Raphanistrum. It is now in much 

 better hands. 



4. C. pratensis. Meadow Ladles'-smock. Cuckoo- 

 flower. 



Leaves pinnate, without stipulas ; leaflets of the radical ones 

 roundish and toothed; those of" the stem-leaves lanceo- 

 late, entire. Petals with a tooth upon the claw. 



C. pratensis. Linn. Sp. PL 9] 5. Willd.v. 3. 4S7. Fl. Br. 699. 

 Engl. Bat. v.\l.t.776. Curt. Land. fuse. 3. t. 40. Mart. Rust. 

 t. 95. Woudv. t. 30. Hook. Scot. 198. DeCand. Syst. v. 2. 256. 

 Fl. Dan. t. 1039. Ehrh. PL Off.4\7. 



C. n. 473. HalLHisLv.\.20&. 



Cardamine. Raii Syn. 299. Ger. Em. 259. f. 



Gauchblum. Brunf. Herb. v.\.2\S.f. 



Nasturtium pratense. Trag. Hist.83.f. 



N. pratense, magno flore. Bauh. Pin. 104. Moris.v. 2. 223. sect 3. 

 t.4.f. 7, bad. 



N. agreste. Fucks. Hist. 325. f. 



N. aquaticum simplici flore, et flore pleno. Best. Hjrt. Eyst. vern. 

 ord. 1. t.3: 



Hiberis. Fuchs. Ic. 185. f. 



Sisymbrium aquaticum alterum. Matth. Valgr.v. 1.443./; flow- 

 ers altogether erroneous j copied in Dalech. Hist. 658./. 2. 



