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March. and others, after Doponzus, Flos Cuculi. 
‘State they make avery delicate Appearance. 
have obferv’d that they fometimes get a Bluth of 
Linn zeus retains the Generical Name Carda- 
mine, and diftinguifhes the Species to which this 
elegant Variety belongs, by. the Addition of | 
foliis pinnatis, foliis radicaltbus fubrotundis caulinis 
Janceolatis : Pinnate-leav’d Cardamine, with the 
Pinnze roundifh on the Bottom Leaves, and on 
thofe of the Stalk lanceolated. 
In Gardens the rounded Pinnz are fcarce ; tho’ 
common in Meadows, and the whole Plant is 
larger: this, and the Multiplicity of Petals to 
-the Flower, is all the Difference. 
The Root is thick, and furnifh’d with innu- 
merable long tough Fibres. 
The Stalk 1s round, upright, and a Foot or 
more in Height, redifh at the Bottom, and of a 
dark green upwards. 
The Leaves are long and es ee Co- 
Jour is a frefh and lively green; and the Pinnz 
are oblong, narrow; and pointed : they are of a 
tender Subftance; their Footftalks are _often 
reddifh; and the main Stalk ting’d with the fame 
Colour where they are inferted. 
The Flowers are of the Breadth of a Shilling, 
fwelling into Roundnefs from a fmall Bafe, and 
sfoaardebe in the Manner of a very double Rofe, of 
innumerable Petals plac’d in feveral Series: thefe 
‘are narrow at their Bafe, broader to the Extre- 
mity, and there frequently wayid and curl’d along 
the Edge. 
Their Colour is ufually Snow-white, and in this 
We 
.Crimfon, and this gives them a new Life and 
- fingle. 
_takes the Place of the Organs of Impregnation : 
_no Filaments appear with Regularity ; nor does 
the Fruit follow. | | 
four oval Leaves. 
der Bottoms, longer than the Leaves of the 
Beauty. 
The Fruit or ‘Seed-vefel in 3 Pod ; but, . that, 
as alfo the Characters of the Clafs, are to be 
fought in the wild Plant, where the Flower is 
‘In this State the Multiplicity of Petals 
In the fingle and natural State of the Plant, 
the Flower is compos’d of four broad Petals, 
plac’d crofs-wife; and has a Cup -form’d of 
The Petals have very flen- 
Cup. — 
- fix; and of thefe four are longer, and two 
fhorter: they have all oblong, little, and heart- 
like Buttons. 
The Rudiment of the Pod fupports the Stigma 
_ without any intermediate Style; and the Pod 
which follows, is flender, and form’d of two | 
four Filaments longer than the others: 
Growth of the Plant, 
this, upon the fame Principles, he needs only to 
‘The F ‘laments in the Centre of the Flower are. 
Valves, which feparate with Violence when it is 
ripe, and roll back. The Seeds are roundifh. 
The fifteenth Clafs in the Linnaan Syftem, 
contains thofe Plants in whofe Flower there are 
to that 
Clafs therefore the Cardamine belongs. 
The Student. will’ remember, test when thee 
Filaments, in any Flower, are unequal in Length, 
the Clafs is to be fought not from their eee 
but according to that Irregularity. 
The Sub- divifions) of this Clafs: is made from 
the Form and Structure of the Seed-veffel,) ac- 
cording to an old DiftinGtiion, into Sifiguofe and 
Siliculofe: the Siliquofe having long and: flendér 
Pods, and fcarce any Remain of a Style at. the 
End; and the Siliculofe having thorter Pods; tef- 
minated by the Remain of the Style, equal, or 
nearly fo, to the Seed-veffel itfelf in Length. 
This Plant therefore’ bélongs to the Siuiillle, 
the fecond Divifion under the -tetradynamious 
Clafs. 
- Culture of the Douste Lapy-Smock. 
This is one of the hardy Plants which bear all 
Seats in our open Borders, : and require little 
Care or Culture : but unlefs a peculiar Place be 
chofen for it, the Plant will pine, and the Flow- 
ers never have half their natural Beauty. 
We have directed the Gardener, in his Culture 
of Exotic Plants,-to defign his Compott and Si- 
tuation according to the Soil and natural Place of 
defcrib’d in Books: -for 
confult the-Book of Nature, every Meadow will 
| thew him the favourite Soil and Situation of. this 
Plant ; 
‘and this he is as. carefully to obferve i in 
its Management. 
Let him fix upon a low Part of the Garden, 
+ where Wet naturally lodges, and where there is 
not too much: Sun. Then let him dig out the 
him mix a fmall Quantity of coarfe Sand. 
In Autumn let him part the Roots of this Plant 
| gather’d wild, if there be any double ones near; if 
not, let him procure fome Roots parted from an- 
other Stock. _ 
Let thefe be planted at ten Inches Dittance, 
and cover’d one Inch with the Mould. Nothing 
more need be done than keeping the Ground clear 
from Weeds after this. ‘The Plants will flower 
early the fucceeding Year, and encreafe abun- 
dantly. 
Ase BROAD->- 
Sete ete Tg eee 
3 stk A,COMPEE AE OBO DY 
March. 
a 
Mould, and put in its Place a Compoft made of | 
| rich black Meadow-Earth, and one fourth Part 
‘Dung; from an old Melon-Bed ; with this let 
