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Th BRITISH HER BOA L. 
2. Small-leaved Watercrefs. 
Sifymbrium foliis-minoribus preecocius. 
The root is a {mall tuft of white fibres, 
The firft leaves are fhort and fmall : each con- 
fifts of a fingle pair of little pinnae, and a large, 
round piece for the termination: they are of a 
fiefhy fubftance and a deep green colour, often 
brownifh. 
The ftalks are numerous, weak, and low: they 
are not more than five inches in length; and they 
lie for the moft part on the ground. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on them, and re- 
femble thofe from the root; but that fometimes 
they have two pairs of pinnz, befide the odd 
leaf at the end. 
The flowers are fmall and white; and they ftand 
in litele tufts at the tops of the ftalks. 
“The pods are flender, and longer than in the 
common kind; and the feeds are numerous, very 
{mall, and brown. 
It is common about the fides of brooks, and 
flowers in April. 
Ray calls it Nafturtium aquaticum foliis minori- 
bus pracocius. 
The fame author mentions, as another fpecies, | 
the Nafturtinm aquaticum pinculis paucioribus of 
Mr. Doody; but it is the fame with this. The 
tafte is fharper in this fmall kind than in the other, 
and it is altogether diftinct, 
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3. Jagged-leaved Watercrefs. 
Sifymbrium Jervatis foliis. 
The root is long; flender, and’ furnifhed with 
many fibres. : 
The firft leaves rife in a tuft, and they are large 
and beautiful: they are long, narrow, and pin- 
nated: eath is compofed of four or five pairs of 
pinne, with an odd one at the end; and thefe. 
are fharply-ferrated at their edges. 
The ftalk is upright, firm, and a foot high: 
its colour is a pale green, and it is ftriated, and 
branched toward the top. 
The leaves are numerous, and placed irregu- 
larly : they are pinnated, and fometimes branched: 
their pinnz are oblong, ferrated at the edges, and 
of a pale green: and both they and the odd leaf 
at the end are fharp-pointed. f 
The flowers are {mall and white‘ they ftand in 
fmall tufts at the tops of the ftalks;. and ufually 
there are long rows of the pods under them when 
the plant has been any time in flower. 
The pods are fhort and fmall; and thé feeds 
are very fmall, and brown: 
It is not uncommon in Hamphhire, and has 
been found in many other parts of England. 
Mr. Ray, among others, took this at one time 
for the impatient lady{mock, to be defcribed here- 
after: but he found the miftake afterwards. 
C. Bauhine calls it Nafurtium aquaticum ereftum 
Solio longiore. Others, Italian watercrefy, 
XIV. 
LADYSMOCK: 
COALR De ALN, TaeNe oi: ' 
HE flower is compofed of four broad, obtufe petals, with very narrow bottoms regularly dif- 
pofed, and expanding croflwife: the cup is formed of four little, erect, oblong leaves with 
obtufe ends; and ic falls with the flower : the feed-veffel is a long, flender pod, 
of a rounded figure, 
but a little depreffed, and it is compofed of two valves, or fides, which, when ripe, roll back, and 
difcharge the feeds with violence: the feeds are numerous, fmall, and round. i 
Linnzeus places this among the tetradynamia filiquofa, four of the fix threads in the flower being 
longer than the two others, and the feed-veflel a regular pod. 
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Dit WV Ls LOW aT. 
x. Common Ladyfmock. . 
Cardamine vulgaris. 
The root is a tuft of flender, white fibres, pe- 
netrating deep into the ground. 
The firft leaves are long, and regularly pin- 
nated, in a very beautiful manner: each is com- 
pofed of five or fix pair of pinnz, which are 
fhort and roundifh, and an odd one of the fame 
fhape at the end. : 
They are of a deep green colour, often-brown, 
of a firm fubftance. , 
The ftalk is round, upright, firm, not much 
branched, and a foot high. 
The leaves on it are pinnated, but very unlike 
thofe from the root ; for in thefe the pinnz are 
all long and narrow: they ftand irregularly on 
the ftalk, and are not numerous, 
The flowers grow at the top ina little tuft: 
BRITISH 
S@P-E"C AB. S. 
they are large and white, 
and perfeét white ; 
bluth of purplith. 
The feed-veffels are long and flender 3 and the 
feeds are little and roundith, 
It is common in our meadows, and flowers in 
April. ; 
C. Bauhine calls it Nafurtium 
flore. Others, Cardamine 8 Ca lemtsc Heese ‘ 
The common people in fome places, Cuckowflower. 
fometimes of a pure 
but at others, they have a 
2. Great-flowered Ladyfmock. 
Cardamine flore majore elatior. 
. The spo is longs flender, and creeping ; and 
as a number of large fibres irrecularl i 
from different parts. a Conbeteg 
The firft leaves are large, 
and beautif in- 
ears nd beautifully pin 
they confit each of about four pairs of 
2 broad, 
