﻿Localities. — In woods and shady places. Very rare. — Buckinghamshire ; 

 In the woods at Landwater, between Beacousfield and High Wycombe: Hud- 

 son, and Mr. Gotobed. — Kent ; Sides of rivulets about Tunbridge Wells : Mr. 

 T. F. Forster, jun. Between Tunbridge Wells and Woodgate : Mr. J. Woods, 

 jun. — Middlesex ; In the Old Park Wood near Harefield, abundantly : Black- 

 stone. In the same place, in 1826: Mr. G. Charlwood, in Curt. Brit. En- 

 tomol. — Surrey ; In a wood three miles beyond Croydon near Woddington 

 towards the Downs: Merrett. — Sussex ; In High-reede and Foxhole Woods 

 near Mayfield : Parkinson. On the left hand rocks going to the High Rocks 

 at Tunbridge Wells from Mr. Fry’s, and on the sides of the rivulets: Forster. 

 — SCOTLAND. Near Dupplin: Mr. Shillinglaw, in Hook. FI. Scot. 



Perennial. — Flowers in April and May. 



Root creeping horizontally, whitish, fleshy, toothed, branched, 

 and subdivided. Stem simple, upright, from one to two feet high, 

 leafy. Leaves alternate, bright green, several of the lowermost pin- 

 nate, of 5 or 7 leaflets ; others ternate ; upper ones simple ; all 

 acutely spear-shaped, and variously serrated. Flowers large and 

 handsome, in terminal corymbs. Petals purple, flesh-coloured, or 

 white. Very dark coloured, scaly bulbs, are produced on the stem 

 in the axils of the upper leaves, these falling off take root and 

 become new plants, and by this means an ample increase is se- 

 cured, the plant seldom perfecting seed. If cultivated in a garden 

 it should be planted in a moist shady situation. It has become 

 perfectly naturalized in the British Arboretum of the Oxford Bo- 

 tanic Garden. 



The genus Dentaria has, by some authors, been united with that 

 of Cardamine, (see folio 141); but that very excellent Botanist, 

 Professor De Candolle, has pointed out a character by which it 

 may be kept separate ; namely, by the spear-shaped pod, and di- 

 lated stalks ( umbilical cords J of the seeds, (see figs. 5 & 6.) ; this 

 is the more desirable, as “ the habit, magnitude, beauty, and pecu- 

 liar kind of root, mark it so distinctly.” In the General System 

 of Gardening and Botany, by Mr. Don, no less than 17 species, 

 natives of different parts of the globe, are described, some of which 

 are among the finest alpine plants of the Natural Order Crucifera:. 



“ The love of Nature’s works 

 Is an ingredient in the compound man. 



Infused at the creation of the kind. 



And, though th’ Almighty Maker has th onghout 

 Discriminated each from each, by strokes 

 And touches of His hand, with so much ail 

 Diversified, that two were never found 

 Twins at all points — yet this obtains in all, 



That all discern a beauty in His woiks, 



And all can taste them. Minds that have been form’d 

 And tutor’d, with a relish more exact, 



Rut none without some relish, none unmoved. ’’ 



CowrKB. 



