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CARDAMINE RESEDIFOLIA. 
Mignonette-leaved Lady's Smock. 
TETRADYN AMIA SILIQUOSA.—Nat. Onn. CRUCIFER. 
Gen. Cuar. —Siliqua linearis. marginibus truncatis: valvis planis enervibus 
(elastice seeplus dignliontibys) ; dissepimento angustioribus. — Br. in Hort. 
Kew. 
Cardamine resedifolia ; folic inferioribus indvisis — triparti- . 
tis pinnatisve stipulatis —Br. 
C. resedifolia, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 913.—Jace. Austr. App. t. 21.—WiLp. Sp. 
Pl. v. iii. p. 482.—Brown, in Hort. Ken. ed. 2. v.iv. p. 104.—Dr Cann. 
Regn. Veg. . V. Ul. p. 250. 
Root small, and "apparently annual, as it is stated in Hortus Kewensis to be: 
yet said by Autionr to be biennial, and by WiLLpENow perennial. Stems 
one or more from the same root, erect, slightly zig-2ag; simple, from 2 
to 4 inches high, glabrous. 
Lowermost leaves broadly ovate, upon tone footstalks, whdivided and entire ; 
the rest more shortly petiolated, more or less deeply pinnatifid, with 
from 3 to 7 lobes; the terminal lobe generally the largest, and glabrous ; 
sometimes the lateral lobes are so small that the leaves appear only in- 
-cised at the margin ; all of them are glabrous, rather deep green. 
Flowers in small terminal corymbs, white. Calyx of 4 ovate, glabrous, erect 
leaflets. Corolla of 4 obovate, somewhat unguiculate petals, marked 
with lines. Stamens 6, tetradynamous. Pistil somewhat angular, co- 
~lumnar. Stigma sessile. Pods nearly an inch long, erect, crowded, 
Valves bursting from below elastically. Seeds numerous, broadly ovate, 
almost orbicular, compressed. : 
A pretty little alpine plant, not uncommon upon moist 
rocks in the mountains of Switzerland and Savoy, and on the. 
Pyrenees; but of rare occurrence in our gardens, where it 
would be well suited to ornament rock-work. 
Mr SHEPHERD was kind enough to communicate the spe- 
cimen here figured from Liverpool, in the month of June. 
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