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The ¥EPR'T'T 1s HY AIRE AT 
The feed-veffels are long and flender ; and the 
feeds are {mall and brown. Gass 
Itis a native of Wales, and flowers in April. 
Ray calls it Nafturtium petreumi. Johnfton 
Fobnfton’s rockcrefs; and moft others have copied 
the fame name, in honour of the perfon who firft 
obferved the plant. 
There has not been much written of the virtues 
DIVISLON. I. FO 
1. Round-leaved trifoliate Ladyfmock. 
Cardamine trifolia. 
The root is compofed of numerous fmall 
fibres, with fome few thicker and longer among 
Bae firft leaves rife in a clufter, and they 
are very beautifully difpofed: three grow on 
each footftalk, in the manner of the leaves of 
trefoils, and thefe are fhort, broad, and of a 
figure irregularly approaching, to oval, or round- 
ed: they are of a deep green at firft, and when 
they have ftood fome time they become purplih : 
their tafte is difagreeable, and’ acrid after they 
have been fome time in the mouth, ; 
The ftalks are round, weak, of a purplifh co- 
lour, and fix or eight inches highs 
They have no leaves, except near the bottom, 
where there ftand three upon-a footftalk, as in 
thofe from the root, which they in all other re- 
{pects alfo perfectly refemble. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks in 
a tuft, and are‘large and white. 
The feed-veffel is long and flender; and the 
feeds are {mall and brown. ; 
It is frequent in many of the northern parts’ of 
Europe among rocks and flowers in May. 
C, Bauhine calls it Nafturtivm alpinum trifolian, 
Clufius and others, Gardamine alpina trifolia. 
2. Trifoliate Ladyfmock with pointed leaves. 
Cardamine trifoliata foliis acuminatis. 
The root is compofed of a multitude of fibres. 
The firft leaves rife'in a thick tuft, and ftand 
on long; flender, weak, purplith footftalks, three 
on each: they are broad at the bafe, ferrated at 
the edges, and they terminate in a fharp point, 
which, from the middle leaf of the three, is 
ufually longer than. on the others, 
The ftalks rife among thefe, and are round, 
purplifh toward . the bottom, and very much 
branched. 
The leaves ftand:alternately on them, and per. 
fectly refemble thofe from the root, three broad, 
ferrated, and pointed ones ftanding on every foot- 
ftalk. 
‘Lhe flowers are {mall and white : they ftand in 
a kind. of fpikes at the tops of the ftalks and 
branches, 
The pods are long and flender, and the feeds 
are round and purplith. 
It is a native of Africa, 
Herman calls it Nofturt 
albis [picatis foliis ternatis 
and flowers in June. 
ium Africanim floribus 
Chriftophoriance facie. 
of the cardamine kind, nor are they regarded in 
the prefent practice. The country people in 
the north bruife the whole plant of the common 
kind in fpring, and take the’juice, a wine glafs 
at a time, againft the fcurvy, in the Jaundice, 
and in all obftru€ions. It operates powerfully’ 
by urine; and they record many confiderable 
cures performed by it. 
REG N.S PEC LE_S. 
3. Irregular-leaved Ladyfmock. : 
Cardamine foliis ternatis et pinnatis. 
The root is long, flender, and white. 
The firft leaves rife in a fmall tuft, and: have 
long footftalks : they ufually ftand three on each - 
ftalk ; but the divifion is not fo perfec and ab- 
folute as in the fpreceding fpecies: thefe rather 
feem three parts of an entire leaf, whereas in thofe 
the three are abfolutely diftin& leaves, 
The ftalk rifes in the midft of this tuft, and is 
weak, flender, branched, and eight or ten inches 
high. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and are of an 
irregular form ; fome toward the lower part are 
trifoliate, or have a ternate divifion as thofe at 
the root ; and others have two pairs of pinnated 
fegments, and an odd one at the end 3 but thefe, 
as the divifions of the others, are not cut to the 
rib; there runs an edge from one to the other, 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalk and 
branches, and are fmall and white. : . 
The feed-veffels are long and flender, and. the 
feeds are {mall and round, 
It is a native of the Pyrenean mountains, and 
flowers in June. 
"C. Bauhine calls. it Nafurtiun Alpinum minus 
refede folio; and others in general copy that name. 
4. Flat-podded Ladyfmock. 
Cardamine foliis pinnatis Siliquis compreffis. 
The root is a long, flender fibre, with a few 
little threads. 
The firft leaves are Of an extremely beautiful 
form and. difpofition : they lie flat upon the 
ground, and are very numerous; fo that they 
form a .clofe circle :\ they are long, and very 
narrow : and they are divided with great regu- 
larity in the pinnated manner: the pinnz are 
twelve or more on each, with an odd one at the 
end: they are narrow, and each has a fingle den- 
ticulation, and no more, on each fide, and this is 
near the bafe. 
The ftalk is round, flender, weak, and {carce 
atall branched : it is eight inches high, and of a 
pale green. 
There are only two or three leaves on it; and 
thefe refemble thofe from the root, but that they 
are fhorter and broader in the whole, the divi- 
fions or pinne being fewer in number, and 
longer, : 
The flowers ftand in a little tuft at the top of 
the ftalk, and are fmall and white, 
The feed-veffels are large, and very flender ; 
and the feeds are {mall and brown. 
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