The BRITISH HERBAL. 
The feed-veffeJs are long and Hender i and ths 
feeds are fmall.and brown. 
It is a native of Wales, and flowers in April. 
Ray calls it Najiurtium fetr.tumi. Johnfton 
Johnjion's rockrrcfs ; and moft others have copied 
the fame name, in honour of che perfon who firll 
obferved the plant. 
There has not been much written of the virtues 
of the cardamine kind, nor are they regarded i n; 
the prefenc pratftice. The country people in 
the north bruife the whole plant of the common 
kind in fpring, and take the juice, a wine glafs 
at a time, againft the fcurvy, in the jaundice, 
and in all obftruclions. It operates powerfully 
by urine ; and they record many confiderable 
cures performed by it. 
DIVISION II.. FOR,EIGN SPECIES. 
I. Round-leaved trifoliate Ladyfmock. 
Cardamine trifoUa. 
The root is compofed of numerous fmall 
fibres, with feme few thicker and longer among 
them. 
The firft leaves rife in a clufter, and they 
are very beautifully djfpofed : three grow on 
each footftalk, in the manner of the leaves of 
trefoils, and thefe are fiiort, broad, and of a 
figure irregularly approaching to oval, or round- 
ed : they are of a deep green at firft, and when 
they have ftood fome time they become purplifli : 
their tafte is difagreeable, and acrid after they 
have been fome time in the mouth. 
The ftalks are round, weak, of a purplilh co- 
lour, and fix or eight inches high. 
They have no leaves, except near the bottom, 
where there ftand three upon a footftalk, as in 
thofe from the root, which they in, all other re- 
fpeds alfo perfe£tly refemble. 
- The flowers ftand' at the tops of the flalks in 
a tuft, and are large and white. 
The feed-veffel is long and ficnder i and the 
feeds are fmall arid' brown. 
It is frequent in iriany of the northern parts of 
Europe among rock$; and flowers in May, 
C. Bauhine calls it Najiurtium alpinum trifolium. 
Clulius and othejs, Cardamine alpina irifolia. 
2. Trifoliate Eadyfmock with pointed leaves. 
. . i/Cardemitie tirifdliata foliis acuminalis. 
Tiie root is compofed of a multitude of fibres. 
The firft leaves rife in a thick tuft, and ftand 
on long, Qender, weak, ,purplifh footftalks, three 
on each : they are broad at the bafe, ferrated at 
the edges, and they terminate in a fharp point, 
which, from the middle leaf of the three, is 
uiually longer than on the others. 
The ftalks rife among thefe, and are round, 
purplifii- toward the bottom, and very much 
branched. 
The leaves ftand alternately on tliem, and per. 
fedtly refemble thofe from the root, £hi;ee broad, 
ferrated, and pointed ones ftanding on every foot- 
ftalk. 
The flowers, are fmall and white : they ftand io 
a kind of fpikes at the tops of the ftalks and 
branches. 
The pods are long and fiender, and the feeds 
are, round and purpHfh. 
" " It is a native of Africa, and flowers in June. 
. Herman calls it Nafturtitm /ifricanum -fioribus 
'athis'fptcatis foliis ternatis Chrijlophoria}]^ fade. 
3. Irregular-leaved Ladyfmock. 
Cardamine foliis ternatis ei pinnatis. 
The root is long, flender, and white. 
The firft leaves rife in a fmall tuft, and have 
long footftalks : they ufually ftand three on each 
ftalk ; but the divifion is not fo perfect and ab- 
folute as in the [preceding fpecies : thefe rather 
feem three parts of an entire leaf, whereas in thofe 
the three are abfolutely diftincfl leaves. 
The ftalk rifes in the midft of this tuft, and is 
weak, flender, branched, and eight or ten inches 
high. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and are of an 
irregular form ; fome toward the lower part are 
trifoliate, or have a ternate divifion as thofe at 
the root ; and others have two pairs of pinnated 
fegments, and an odd one at the end j but thefe, 
as the divifions of the others, are not cue to the 
rib ; there runs an edge from one to the other. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalk' and 
branches, and at(; fmall and white. 
The feed-vefl^els are long. and flender, and the 
feeds are fmall and round. 
It is a native of the Pyrensean mountains, and 
flowers in June. 
C, Bauhine calls it Najiurtium Jlpimm minus 
refeda^ folia ; and others in general copy that name. 
4. Flat-podded Ladyfmock. ^■ 
Cardami}ie foUis pinnatis Jiliquis cemprej/is.^'t "*t 
The root is a long, fiender fibre, with a few 
little threads. 
The firft leaves are of an extremely beautiful 
form and difpofition : they lie flat upon the 
ground, and are very numerous ; fo that they 
form a clofe circle : they are long, and very 
narrow ; and they are divided with great regu- 
larity in the pinnated manner : the pinntc are 
twelve or more on each, with an odd one at the 
end : they are narrow, and each has a fingle den- 
ticulation, and no more, on each fide, and this is 
near the bafe. 
The ftalk is round, flender, weak, and fcarce 
at all branched ; it is eight inches high, and of a 
pale green. 
There are only two or three leaves on it j and 
thefe refemble thofe from the root, but that they 
are fhorter and broader in the whole, the divi- 
fions or pinnse being fewer in number, and 
longer. 
The flowers ftand in a little tuft at the totp of 
the ftalk, and are fm.aU and white. 
The feed-vefiels are large, and very flender . 
and the feeds are fmall and brown. 
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