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a larger odd one at the end : thefe Pinn^ (land 

 on fhort footftalks, are generally a Kttle hairy, 

 and have one or two flight dents on the edges, 

 the extreme one often obfcurely divided a little 

 way down into three lobes ; the ftalk-leaves are 

 fimilar, but more oval, and narrower, and fome- 

 times lanceolate ; the ftalks arc generally hairy, 

 angular, from four to eight inches high, branched 

 and feveral from the fame root : the petals are 

 fmall and white, about as long again as the ca- 

 lyx : the flowers have ofien the two fhorter fl:a- 

 mina deficient, but we frequently And them re- 

 gular with all flx viflble : the Jii^u^ buril with 

 an elafdc force. The young leaves are a good 

 fallad. 



^ ,.^n. . CARDAM5NE foliis pinnatis, foliolis radicalibus 

 fubrotundiS'j caulmis lanceolatjs. Sp, pi. 915. 

 {Cyer. em. 259./. i, 2. Blackwell t. 227. Mcris^ 

 h^ft.f. 3. /. 4./. 7' P^i' ^^rh, t. ^j,f, 5) 



Common Ladies-fmock, or Cuckow-flovv'er. An^lis. 



In wet paftures and by the fldes of rivulets frequent. 



The radical leaves have generally about ^ix pair of 

 Pinn^^ nearly heart fliap'd, with a few angular 

 dents on the edges : the flialk is a foot high, 

 ere6t, round and fiflular : the petals are white, 

 or tinged with purple, with deeper veins, and 

 yellow ungues., and almofl: half an inch long : the 

 leaves are very acrid, and the flowers have 



lately 



