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CARDAMINE resepiro.ia. 
Mignonette-leaved Lady’s Smock. 
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TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA.—Nat. Orv. CRUCIFERZ. . 
Gen. Cuar.—Siliqua linearis marginibus truncatis: sagen ee enervibus 
os sepius dissilientibus), disser Br. in Hort 
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Cardamine resedifolia; foliis inferioribus indivisis, superioribus triparti- 
tis pinnatisve stipulatis.—Br. 
C. resedifolia, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 913.—Jacg. Austr. App. t. 21—Wittp. Sp. 
Pi. v. iii. p. 482.—Brown, in Hort. Kem. ed. 2. v. iv. p. 104.—De Cann. 
Regn. Veg. Syst. v. ii. p. 250. 
Root small, and apparently annual, as it is stated in Hortus Kewensis to be: 
yet said by ALxionr to be biennial, and by WiLLDENow perennial. Stems 
one or more from the same root, erect, slightly zig-zag, simple, from 2 
to 4 inches high, glabrous. 
leaves broadly ovate, upon long footstalks, undivided and entire ; 
the rest more shortly petiolated, more or less deeply pinnatifid, with 
from 3 to 7 lobes, the terminal lobe generally the largest, and glabrous ; 
Sometimés the lateral lobes are so Small that the leaves appear only in- 
Flowers in small corymbs, white. - Calyx of 4 ovate, glabrous, erect 
eaflets. Corolla of 4 obovate, somewhat unguiculate marked 
Stamens 6, ynamous. Ps » CO= 
Valves bursting from below elastically. Seeds numerous, broadly ovate, 
almost orbicular, compressed. : 
A pretty little alpine plant, not uncommon upon moist 
rocks in the mountains of Switzerland and Savoy, marine on the 
Pyrenees ; but of rare occurrence in our gardens, where ode 
would be well suited to ornament rock-work. . 
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