770 TETRADYNAMIA. SILIQUOSA. Nasturtium. 
Var. 2. (Flore pleno.) Double-flowered, viviparous. 
Meadows about Hoss Hall, near Salop. Mr.Aikin. In a field south-west 
of the Tap-house at Hagley, Worcestershire. (Fields near the vicarage 
at Keswick. Mr. Winch. In a lane at Brookfield, Bitton, near Teign- 
mouth. Mr. Frederick Russell. E.) 
C. ama'ra. (Leaves winged, without stipulse: leafits of the root- 
leaves roundish: those of the stem-leaves tooth-angular: stem 
radicating near its base. E.) 
Curt. 158— (F. Bot. 1000. E.)— Allioni 56. 1— Herm. Par. 203— J. B. ii. 
885— C. B. Pr. 45. 1 —Park. 1239. 3— Pet. 47. 1. 
(Boot toothed. Stems one foot or more high, inclining to flexuose, 
angular, strong, and almost woody, often decumbent, and then radicat¬ 
ing. Leaves nearly smooth. E.) Suckers cylindrical, crooked. Leajiis 
irregularly indented and thinly set with little teeth. Bunches terminal 
and lateral. Flowers white, (rather larger than those of the preceding. 
Anthers purple. E.) 
Bitter Cress or Ladies’-smock. Near purls of water, on the banks of 
rivulets, in boggy places, or moist meadows and pastures. Dorking, 
Surry ; Braintree, Essex ; Middleton, Warwickshire; Lewisham, Hare- 
field, Uxbridge. Battersea, Chelsea; and Great Comberton, Worces¬ 
tershire. Norwich, Mr. Crowe. Bungay. Mr. Woodward. (Fitz, near 
Aspatria, Cumberland. Rev. J. Dodd. St. Bernard’s Well, Edinburgh. 
Lightfoot. Rosiin woods. Mr. Arnott. Grev. Edin. Aston, near Bir¬ 
mingham. E.) P. April—May.* * 
(NASTURTIUM. Pod nearly cylindrical, oblique : valves 
concave, without keels: Stigma obtuse, notched: Cal. 
spreading, equal at the base. E.) 
N. officina'le. Leaves winged: leafits roundish, heart-sharped. E.) 
FI. Dan. 690— (E. Bot. 855. E.)— Woodv. 48 —Fuchs. 723— J. B. ii. 884— 
Trag. 82. 2 —Dod. 592. 1— Lob. Ohs. 105. 3, and Ic. i. 209. 1 —Ger. Em. 
257. 5—Park. 1239. 1 —II. Ox. iii. 4. 8 —Pet. 47. 2 and 3 —Matth. 487— 
Lome. i. 114. 2 — Blackw. 260. 
Blossom white, terminal. (Root fibrous. Stems decumbent, and floating, 
striking root from the underside. Leaves alternate, winged-lyre-shape. 
a practice more general in the golden age, when families spun and prepared their own 
linen, and enjoyed the advantages of other homemade essentials. It must be confessed, 
however, to speak with prosaic accuracy, that the purple tint with which these pretty 
flowers are embued, somewhat sullies the emblematic representation of spotless purity, 
rendering it, indeed, but too faithful a picture of sublunary excellence, never absolutely 
perfect. The other familliar name, ( Cuckoo-flower ), is equally applied to several plants 
which salute with their welcome blossoms our favourite herald of Summer. E.) Goats 
and sheep eat it. Horses and swine refuse it. Cows are not fond of it. 
* Sheep eat it. Cows are not fond of it. Linn. The young leaves are acrid and 
bitterish, but do not taste amiss in salads. Lightfoot. They are much used for that 
purpose in Lancashire. Mr. Caley. The leaves are pungent, bitter, and aromatic, in such 
a degree as to promise very considerable medical uses. The beautiful Papilio Cardamine , 
with lively orange-tipped wings, the Wood-lady of the London fly-fanciers, lives upon 
the different species. 
