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CABDAMINE resedifolia. 
Mignonette-leaved Lady's Smock, 
TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA.— Nat. Oed. CRUCIFERJE. 
Gen. Char. — Siliqua linearis mai-ginibus truncatis : valvis planis enervibus 
(elastice saepius dissilientibus), dissepimento angustioribus. — Br. in Hort. 
Ketv. 
Cardamine resedifolia; foliis inferioribus indivisis, superioribus triparti- 
tis pinnatisve stipulatis. — Br. 
C. resedifolia. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 913. — Jacq. Austr. App. t. 21. — ^Willd. Sp. 
PI. V. iii. p. 482. — Brown, in Hort. Kerv. ed. 2, v. iv. p. 104. — De Cand. 
Regn. Veg. Syst. v. ii. p. 250. 
Root small, and apparently annual, as it is stated in Hortus Kemensis to be : 
yet said by Allioni to be biennial, and by Willdenow perennial. Stems 
one or more from the same root, erect, slightly zig-zag, simple, from 2 
to 4 inches high, glabrous. 
Lowermost leaves broadly ovate, upon long footstalks, undivided and entire ; 
the rest more shortly petiolated, more or less deeply pinnatifid, with 
from 3 to 7 lobes, the terminal lobe generally the largest, and glabrous ; 
sometimes the lateral lobes are so small that the leaves appear only in- 
cised at the margin ; all of them are glabrous, rather deep green. 
Flowers in small terminal corymbs, white. Calyx of 4 ovate, glabrous, erect 
leaflets. Corolla of 4 obovate, somewhat unguiculate petals, marked 
with lines. Stamens 6, tetradynamous. Pistil somewhat angular, co- 
lumnar. Stigma sessile. Pods nearly an inch long, erect, crowded. 
Valves bursting from below elastically. Seeds numerous, broadly ovate, 
almost orbicular, compressed. 
A pretty little alpine plant, not uncommon upon moist 
rocks in the mountains of Switzerland and Savoy, and on the 
Pyrenees ; but of rare occurrence in our gardens, where it 
would be well suited to ornament rock-work. 
Mr Shepherd was kind enough to communicate the spe- 
cimen here figured from Liverpool, in the month of June. 
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