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Andrew's cross, and by this mark they may always be known 

 at a glance. They have besides six stamens, four long and 

 two short, whence Linnaeus derived his name Tetradenamea, 

 that is, four powers, in allusion to the four long stamens. 

 CARDAMINE.— Ladies' Smock. 



Calyx connivent or somewhat patent, equal at the base. Petals 

 with a claw ; limb entire. Stamens distant, without teeth. Siliqua 

 sessile, linear, elongated, compressed ; valves flat, nerveless, somewhat 

 smaller than the incrassated replum,* from which they usually se- 

 parate elastically. Style short, or none : stigma nearly simple. 

 Seeds ovate, without a border, forming a single series : podosperms 

 slender. Radicle applied to the edge of the cotyledons (o=). — 

 Leaves petioled entire, lobed, or variously divided, often different on 

 the same individual. Flowers white or rose-coloured. — W. and A. 

 Prod. p. 19. 



The species of this genus are very numerous, and where they 

 abound, very ornamental ; as, for example, the C.pratinsesoi English 

 meadows, which, in spring, appear in such numbers as to whiten the 

 fields where they grow, so as to give the appearance of bleaching 

 greens ; whence, it is supposed, it derived its English name of 

 " Ladies's Smock." The one here figured does not possess that re- 

 commendation, as it usually occurs but thinly scattered in woods, and 

 may generally be found in flower during wet weather at all seasons. 



Cardamina Babbonice (Per- equal at the base, irregularly and 



soon). — Leaves trifoliolate ; leaf- sharply toothed, terminal one 



lets, hairy on both sides, particu- sometimes 3-lobed or divided into 



larly on the nerves beneath, 3 leaflets similar to the others : si- 



petioled, ovate acuminated un- liqua erect. — W. § A. Prod. p. 20. 



VI.— FLACOURTIANEJE. 



This is a small family of trees and shrubs, but on the limits 

 of which considerable difference of opinion exists among 

 Botanists, a subject on which much might be said were this 

 the place for such disquisitions. Suffice it therefore to say, 

 that there are two nearly related families (Bixacese and Fla- 



* Replum is the frame surrounding the dissepiment, from which the valves fall 

 off, and to which the placentae are attached. 



