TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. Cardamine. 187 



lingdon Green. Between Ipstone and Penley Hangings. B.i\ 



Goring. Mr. L, Darwall, Trin. Coll. Cambridge. 

 An. June. 

 Stems spreading, numerous, each ending in a raceme of fl. Fl. 



showy, millc-white. Pouch sharply notched at the end. 



In gardens among our hardy annuals : smaller than lb. umbel- 

 lata. 



TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. 



(DENTARIA. Coral-wort. 



D. hulbifera. Bulb-bearing C. Lower leaves winged ; 

 upper leaves simple, with a bulb growing in their axils, 

 (i. e. in the angles formed by the leaf-stalk, and stem.) 

 E. B. 809. G. E. 984. 



Moist woods, rare. Woods at Loudwater, between Beaconsfield, 



and High Wycombe, Tur. 

 Per. April, May. 

 Axillary bulbs, dark purple, scaly, propagating the plant. Root 



toothed. FL, rather large, purple.) 



CARDA'MINE.' Ladies'-smock,^ or Cuckoo-Flower.^ 



* Leaves loinged. 



C. hirsuta. Hairy L. or C Leaves winged, without 

 stipulas ; leaflets stalked, roundish-oblong, notched. 

 E. B. 492. C. 4. 48. 



Waste and cultivated ground, moist, shady places. Southleigh 

 Heath. Sh. A weed in garden ground, at Headington 

 Quarry ; also in several gardens, Warwickshire, B.r, 



An. April, 



Stem three to twelve inches, erect, branched, leafy, zigzag, with 

 scattered hairs. Ls. in a circle on the gi'ound, alternate, lower- 

 most leaflets round, or heart-shaped, the rest oblong, all of them 

 notched, hairy, with stalks, opposite or alternate, rarely quite 

 smooth. Fl. small, white, numerous. Corymb terminal, soon 

 lengthening into a spike. Stam., two often deficient. Silique 

 filiform. 

 As a salad in its early state, tasting like water-cress. 



C. pratensis. Meadow L. or Go Leaves winged, with- 

 out stipulas ; leaflets of the root-ones roundish and 



' The i made long by Bonichius. Beckmann. 



2 The profusion of the white fl. of the C. pratensis gives the appearance at a 

 distance of linen bleaching. 



3 From the early appearance of the fl. about the time the cuckoo arrives. 



