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4. Card amine Chilensis, DC. 



Cardamine Chilensis, DC. Syst. 2, p. 244 ; Barneoud, in Gay, Fl. Chil. 1, p. 108. 



Hab. Between Valparaiso and Santiago, Chili. 



The single specimen in the collection is remarkable for its solitary 

 and axillary flowers ; in which, as in other respects, it accords better 

 with the character given in the Flora Chilena, than with that of De- 

 Candolle. 



5. Cardamine laxa, Benth. 



Cardamine laxa, Benth. PL Hartw. p. 158 (no. 880). 



Var. pumila : siliquis pedicello duplo longioribus stylo brevi apicudatis. 

 Hab. Culnai to Casa Cancha, high Andes of Peru. 



Stems barely a span in length, decumbent or ascending. Segments 

 of the cauline leaves only 3 lines long. Siliques 8 or 9 lines long, on 

 pedicels only 4 or 5 lines long, nearly erect, pointed with a very short 

 style, broader for their length than those of G. hirsuta; the flowers 

 also larger. The replum has the same broad margins as in G. gla- 

 cialis. — I think that our specimens belong to a depauperate form of 

 Mr. Bentham's G. laxa. 



6. Cardamine hirsuta, Linn. 



Hab. Hawaii, Sandwich Islands : in the district of Waimea, &c. 



One of the specimens agrees with the ordinary G. hirsuta. The 

 other has rounder, obtusely lobed, somewhat reniform, and more 

 petioled segments of the leaves; and resembles the var. sylvatica {G. 



si/Ivatica, Link) . 



