768 TETRADYNAMIA. SILIQUOSA. Cardamine. 
Hairy-leaved Ladies’-smock. (Welsh: Hydyf hlewog . E.) Carda - 
mine hirsuta (5. Huds. Cardamine minor arvensis. D. Lhwyd, in R. Syn. 
300. n. 4. ( Cardamine impatiens altera hirsutior. R. Syn. 300, is C. fiex- 
uosa .) Gravelly soil, on the driest banks as well as in moist places, and 
by the sides of rivulets and springs, not uncommon. 
A. March-—June.* 
C. flexuo'sa. Stem zigzag: leafits toothed, mostly alternate, unequal 
at the base. 
Curt. 277— FI. Dan. 735— Wale. C . hirsuta. 
Stem eight to twelve inches high, stiff, angular, ribbed, zigzag, being bent 
at the setting off of every leaf or branch. Leaves , root-leaves lying in a 
circle on the ground, on leaf-stalks. Leafits five or six pairs, with an 
odd one at the end: egg-shaped, irregularly toothed, unequal at the 
base. Stem-leaves alternate, irregular, sessile. Leafits three to five 
pairs, with an odd one which is larger; some sessile, others on short 
leaf-stalks, irregularly toothed. Fruit-stalks cylindrical, but compressed; 
slanting. Calyx half the length of the blossom: generally purplish. 
Blossom petals white, rounded at the end. Stamens six, longer than the 
blossom. Anthers yellow. Pistils, summit pale green. Seed-vessels , 
pod straight, nearly upright, cylindrical, but compressed. Seeds six on 
each side of the partition. Plant somewhat hairy; hairs few, soft, 
white, mostly on the lower part of the stem and the edges of the leaves. 
Flowers in a terminal corymb, which in time shoots out in form of a 
spike-like bunch; and the full grown plants sometimes put forth axillary 
bunches. 
This plant has been imagined by some to be only a var. of C. hirsuta, but it 
has been more generally taken for C. parviflora of Linnaeus, whilst others 
have supposed those two species only accidental varieties. It differs 
from the former in having uniformly six stamens, and from the latter in 
being hairy, in its stamens being longer than the blossom, and in its fruit- 
stalks being slanting upwards, not horizontal. It does not appear that 
C. parviflora has yet been found in this Island. (Though we do not 
feel confident of the permanency of the specific distinctions attributed to 
this plant, deference to the opinion of our Author and that of several 
respectable Botanists, induces us to await the result of further observa¬ 
tion. Dr. Hull remarks, cc I am informed that C. hirsuta does not be¬ 
come like C. fiexuosa on cultivation, and think the latter a strongly 
marked variety, if not a distinct species.” E.) 
Zigzag Ladies’-smock. C. parviflora. Lightf. With. Ed. ii. not of Linn. 
C. hirsuta. Weber. Curt. Wale. Huds. FI. Brit. C. fiexuosa. With. 
Sym. Hull. Purt. Hopk. Cardamine impatiens altera hirsutior. R. Syn. 
300. Ditches, woods, shady, wet, and boggy places. Rookery at 
Edgbaston, near Birmingham, and in ditches at the upper end of the 
pool. (The Rough at Alcester mill. Purton. E.) A. May—July. 
C. praten'sis. (Leaves without stipuhe: E.) leafits of the root- 
leaves roundish, toothed; those of the stem-leaves spear-shaped, 
very entire. 
Curt. 175— (E. Bot. 776. E.)— Kniph. 1 2—FI. Dan. 1039 —Woodv. 30— 
Wale. — Sheldr. 109 —Blackw. 223— Lob. Obs. 106. 2, and Ic. i. 210. 1— 
* The young leaves make a good salad ; much resembling water cress in taste. 
