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19. Gardamine hlrsuta L. 



Scientific name: 



Oardamine hirsuta L. Sp. PI. 655. 1753. 

 Conmion name: 



Hairy "bitter-cress. 

 Distriliution and habitat: ' , 



In Europe and Asia; perhaps introduced in U. S. 

 (6. M.). "Pa. to Mich., Neh., and N. C." (B. M.); "soujbh 

 Pa. to N. C* and Mich., a doubtful specimen from west Mass. 

 (G. M.)« In moist places. 



PI. of Mon. Co. and C. F.t "Wet places; common" 

 (and listed in PI. Buf. Vic.) "but C. pennsylvanica is not 

 mentioned* and evidently « in accordance with Gray's Man- 

 ual, 6th Ed*, was included in C. Birsuta . ^oc* Herb.: 

 all specimens labeled hirsuta , except those four from 

 Tully Ii., ere eridently pennsylranica ; the four mentioned 

 are very small, and 2 at least hare the leaves nearly all 

 basal • 



The writer has obtained one specimen, from the 



rarine of Renwick Brook, very similar to the Tully L. 



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speclMens, and probably to be referred to C. hirsuta . 

 A little specimen from Coy Glen is more doubtful. 

 Diagnosis : 



