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C. prat^nsis. Cuckoo-flower or Ladies' Smock. Stem ascending 

 from a short perennial rootstock ; tlie pinnate leaves with rounded and stalked 

 entire small leaflets ; flowers in spring, showy, pink or white ; in bogs at the 

 north, and a double-flowered variety is an old-fashioned plant in gardens. 



C. rhomboidea. Stems upright from a small tuber, simple, bearing rather 

 large white or rose-purple flowers in spring, and simple angled or sparingly 

 toothed leaves, the lowest rounded or heart-shaped, the upper ovate or oblong r 

 in wet places northward. 



12. DENTAMA, TOOTHWORT. (From the Latin dens, a tooth.) U 



D. diph^Ua, Two-leaved T., Peppek-root, or Crinkle-root. So 

 called from the fleshy, long and toothed rootstocks, which are eaten and taste 

 like Water-Cress ; there are only 2 stem leaves, close together, each of 3 rhom- 

 bic-ovate and toothed leaflets, and the root-leaf is similar ; flowers quite large, 

 white, in spring. "Woods in vegetable mould, N. 



D. lacini&ta, Laciniate T. Eootstock necklace-form or constricted in 

 2 or 3 places, scarcely toothed ; stem-leaves 3 in a whorl, each 3-parted into 

 linear or lanceolate leaflets, wliich are cut or cleft into narrow teeth, or the 

 lateral ones 2-lobed ; flowers purplish, in spring : banks of streams. 



13. LXJNAEIA, HONESTY or SATIN-FLOWER. (Name from Luna, 

 the moon, from the shape of the broad or rounded pods. ) @ % 



L. biennis. Common Honesty. Not native to the country, but cultivated 

 in old-fashioned places, for the singular large oval pods, of which the broad 

 white partitions, of satiny lustre, remaining after the valves have fallen, are 

 used for ornament ; leaves somewhat heart-shaped ; flowers large, pink-purple, 

 in early summer. 



L. redivlva. Perennial Honesty, is a much rarer sort, with oblong 

 pods ; seldom met with here. 



14. DKABA, WHITLOW-GRASS. (Name is a Greek word, meaning 

 acrid. ) Low herbs, mostly with white flowers : the commoner species are the 

 following : fl. early spring ; winter annuals. 



D. Carolini^a. Leaves obovate, hairy, on a very short stem, bearing a 

 short raceme or corymb on a scape-hke peduncle 1' - 4' high ; petals not notched ; 

 pods broadly linear, much larger than their pedicels ; in sandy waste places. 



D. v6ma. A diminutive plant, with a tuft of oblong or lanceolate root- 

 leaves, and a scapc; l'-3' high; petals 2-cleft; pods oval or oblong, in a ra- 

 ceme, shorter than their pedicels : in sandy waste places. 



15. CAMELINA, FALSE-FLAX. (An old name, meaning dwarf-flax; 

 the common species was fancied to be a degenerate flax.) @ 



C. sativa. Common F. A weed, in grain and flax-fields, l°-2° high, 

 with lanceolate leaves, the upper ones sagittate and clasping the stem ; small 

 pale-yellow flowers, followed by obovate turgid pods in a long loose raceme ; 

 style conspicuous. 



16. CAPSEIiLA, SHEPHERD'S-PTJRSE. (Name means a Zi'ftfeporf.) (i) 

 C Bursa-Pastdris, Common S. The commonest of weeds, in waste 



places ; root-leaves pinnatifld or toothed, those of the stem sagittate and partly 

 clasping ; small white flowers followed by the triangular and notched pods, in a 

 long raceme. 



17. 1B:^BIS, CANDYTUFT. (Name from the country, Ibena, an old 

 name for Spain. ) Low garden plants, from Europe, cultivated for ornament,- 

 different from the rest of the order in the irregular corollas. 



I. umbell^ta, Common C. ®. Lower leaves lanceolate, the upper 

 linear and entire ; flowers purple-lilac (or pale), in flat clusters, in summer. 



I. seinp6rvirens, Evergreen C. U Rather woody-stemmed, tufted, 

 with bright green lanceolate or linear-spatulate thickish entire leaves, and flat 

 clusters of pure white flowers, in spring. 



