Tlie BRITISH HERBAL. 
2. Small-leaved Wacercrefs. 
Sijjmhium fcliis minorihus pracocius. 
The root is a fmall ruft of white fibres. 
The firft leaves are fliorc and fmall : each con- 
fifts of a fingle pair of little pinniE, and a large, 
round piece tor the termination ; they are of a 
fiefliy fubftance and a deep green colour, often 
brown ifh. 
The rtaiks are numerous, weak, and low : they 
are not more than five inclics in length ; and thcy 
lie for the moft part on the ground. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on them, and re- 
fcmble thole from the root ; but that fometimes 
they have two pairs of pinnK-, befidc the odd 
leaf at the end. 
The flowers are fmall and white ; and they ftand 
in little tufts at the tops of the ftalks. 
The pods are (lender, and longer than in the 
common kind ; and the feeds are numerous, vefy 
■fmall, and brown. 
It is common about the fides of brooks, and 
flowers in April. 
Ray calls it Nnjluriium aquatkum foliis minori- 
Ins pr.ccocius. 
The fame author mentions, as another fpecies, 
the Nnjhirli:m aqmticum -pinculis paucioribus of 
Mr. Doody ; but it is the fame with this. The 
tafte is fharper in this fmall kind than in the other, 
and it is altogether difltndt. 
3- Jagg-ed-leaved Watercrefs. 
Sifymbrium ferratis foliis. 
The root is long, (lender, and fiirnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The firft leaves rife in a tufr, and they are large 
and beautiful ; they are long, narrow, and pin- 
nated : each is compofed of four or five pairs of 
pinnfE, with an odd one at the end; and thefe, 
are fiiarjily ferrated at their edges. 
The ftalk is upright, firm, and a foot high: 
its colour is a pale green, and it is ftriated, and 
branched coward the top. 
The leaves are numerous, and placed irregu- 
larly ; they are pinnated, and fometimes branched: 
their pinnae are oblong, ferrated at the edges, and 
of a pale green : and both they and the odd leaf 
at the end are fharp-pointed. 
The fiowers are fmall and white : they fland in 
fmall tufts at the tops of the ftalks ; and ufually 
there are long rows of the pods under them when 
the plant has been any time in flower. 
The pods are fliort and fmall j and the feeds 
are very fmall, and brown; 
It is not uncommon in Hampfhire, and has 
beea found in many other parts of England. 
Mr. Ray, among others, took this at one time 
for the impatient ladyfmock, to be defcribed here- 
after : but he found the miftake afterwards. 
C. Bauhine calls it Najlurlmm aquatkum ereSfum 
folk longkre. Others, IlaVmn watercrefs. 
GENUS XIV. 
LADYSMOCK. 
CARtiAMlNE. 
^HE flower is compofed of four broad, obtufe petals, with very narrow bottoms regularly dif- 
pofed, and expanding crofl*wife : the cup is formed of four little, ered, oblong leaves with 
obtufe ends i and it falls with the flower : the fced-vefl'el is a long, flender pod, of a rounded fio'ure 
but a little deprdled, and it is compofed of two valves, or fides, which, when ripe, roll back and 
difcharge the feeds with violence: the feeds are numerous, fmall, and round. 
Linnffius places this among the /^/rfli^yHflffl/i3y?^'jKt3/;7 •, four of the fix threads in the flower being 
longer than the two others, and the feed-vefl"el a regular pod. 
DIVISION I. B 
I. Common Ladyfmock; 
CarAamine vulgaris. 
The root is a tuft of flender, white fibres, pe- 
netrating deep into the ground. 
The firil leaves are long, and regularly pin- 
nated, in a very beautiful manner : each is com- 
pofed of five or fix pair of pinns, which are 
lliort and roundilh, and an odd one of the fame 
fhape at the end. 
They are of a deep green colour, often brown, 
of a firm fub'ibnce. 
The ftalk is round, upright, firm, not much 
branched, and a foot high. 
The leaves on it are pinnated, but very unlike 
thofe from the root ; for in thefe the pinnEe are 
all long and narrow: thcy ftand irregularly on 
the ftalk, and are not numerous. 
The flowers grow at the top in a little tuft ; 
RITISH SPECIES, 
they are large and white, fometimes of a pure 
and perfe6t white j but at others, they have a 
blufli of purplirti. 
The feed-veflels are long and flender j and the 
feeds are little and roundifh. 
It is common in our meadows, and flowers in 
April. 
C. Bauhine calls it Nafiurtium pratenfe magno 
flcre. Others, Cardamine and Cardamine vulgaris. 
The common people in fume places, Cucko%vfiower. 
2. Great- flowered Ladyfmock. 
Cardamine flore inajore elatior: 
The root is long, flender, and creeping ; and 
has a number of large fibres irregularly growing 
from different parts. 
The firft leaves are large, and beautifully pin- 
nated : they confift each of about four pairs of 
2; broad , 
