
96 PLANTS GROWING IN MOIST SOIL, 
that borders streams and damp thickets ; and we sometimes 
find the C. stolonifera also sauntering towards the swamps in its 
desire to quench its thirst for moisture. The little flowers are 
very. similar in arrangement to those of C. Fldrida, page 112, 
Plate LXXX. Wecannot but lament, however, that they are 
without the petal-like involucre that is the beautiful feature of 
the dogwood family. 
BULBOUS CRESS, 
Cardamine bulbosa. 
FAMILY _ COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Mustard. White or pinkish. Scentless. Mostly north. Aprii, May. 
Flowers: rather large ; growing in terminal clusters. Ca/yx : of four spread- 
ing sepals that fall early. Corol/a: of four cruciferous petals. Stamens: Six, 
ot which two are shorter than the others. /Pyst//: one. Pod: flat; lanceolate. 
Leaves; roundish; cordate; becoming ovate, or lanceolate as they ascend the 
stem; toothed. Stem: erect; slender. oofstock: tuberous. 
This is perhaps the prettiest of our cresses. It hasan agree- 
able bitter taste which appeals to us as being particularly re- 
freshing when we find it beside the trickling, sparkling stream 
that it loves so well. 
CUT-LEAVED TOOTHWORT. PEPPER-ROOT. 
Dentarta lacitnzata. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Mustard. White or pinkish Scentless. New England south- April-June. 
purple. ward and westward. 
Flowers : growing in a terminal raceme. Ca/yx: of four sepals that fall 
early. Corolla: of four cruciferous petals. Stamens: six, of which two are 
shorter than the others. P%sti/: one. Pod: lance-shaped. Leaves: in whorls 
of threes; each leaf being divided into linear, gash-toothed divisions. Stem: 
erect; simple. ootstock: tuberous. 
The cut-leaved toothwort is a near relative of the toothwort 
of the rich woods. Its taste for water, however, has induced it 
to stray from the family environment to the banks of streams. 
Here, no doubt, it has further offended its family by putting on 
style, or, to be explicit, by adding another leaf toitsstem. And 
those of the woods cannot cry out against it, for its rootstock is 
quite as edible as their own. 

