■ 3 a R DAMINE AM A R A. i ITTER LADIES-SMOCK.
CARDAMINE Lin. Gen. PL T etradynamia Siliquosa. Siliqua elaftice difliliens, valvulis revolutis.
Stigma integrum, Calyx fubhians.
Rail Syn. Gen. 21. H er bas t etrapetala: siliquosje et sil icu lo sa:.
CARDAMINE amara foliis pinnatis axillis ftoloniferis. Lin. Syß. Vegetab. p. 497. p. 915. Fl.Suecic. n.
586.
CARDAMINE foliis pinnatis, fubrotundis, angulofis. Haller, hiß. 474.
CARDAMINE ftolonifera Scopoli, ic. 39 ?
NASTURTIUM aquaticum majus et amarum. Rauh. pin. 104.
•CARDAMINE flore majore elatior. Tourn. Inß. R. H. Raii Syn. 291. Bitter Creflès.
Huclfon Fl. Angl. ed. 2. p. 294. Lightjoot F l. Scot. p. 350,
■ RADIX .perennis, tennis, albida, j-epens.
ICAULIS pedalis'ad bipedalem, ereCtus, bafi ftoloniferus,
flexuofus, fubangulatus, glabei, ramofiis.
■ FOLIA radicalia magna, rotundata, fubintegerrima ;
■ caulina fubereCta, pinnata, pinnarum paria
plerumque tria cum impari, pinnæ oblongæ,
angulatæ, angulis denticulo terminatis, læves,
•margine ad lentem vifæ minutim ciliatæ, ex-
itinaâ majori et in plures angulos divisä.
I FLORES albi, pro magnitudine plantæ, minores, flof-
•culis' Cardamines pratenfis perquam fimiles,
nunquam vero colorati.
■ PEDUNGULI ebraCtæati, teretes, læves alterni.
■ CALYX: Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis con-
cavis, ereCtis, flavefcentibus, margine mem-
ibranaceis, deciduis. jig . 1.
■ COROLLA : Pet al a quatuor, fubereCta, alba, bafi.
virefcentia, oblongo-ovata, fubemarginata,
plana, lineis profundis exarata. fig. 2.
■ STAMINA“. Filament a fex, quorum duo breviora,
Tubulata, alba; A ntheræ incumbentes, pur-
:pureæ apicibus convolutis. Jig. 5. 3.
I gLANDU-LÆ ut in Çardamine pratenfi. fig. 7.
■ GERMEN comprefl'um, minute articulatum, longitu-
dine ftaminum; Stylus brevis, obliquas ;
Stigma minimum. Jig. 4.
■ PERICARPIUM : Siliqua et Semina ficut in Çardamine
pratenfi, nifi majora, fig. 8: 9.
ROOT perennial, flender, whitilh, and creeping.
STALK from one to two feet high, upright, at bottom
throwing out runners from the alte of the
leaves, crooked, fomewhat angular, fmooth,
filming, and branched.
’ LEAVES, next the root large, round, and almoft perfectly
entire ; on the fialk nearly upright, pinnated,
confifting for the moft part of three
pair of pinnae with an odd one, pinnae oblong,
angular, each angle terminated by a final!
• tooth or point, fmooth, the edge, if viewed
with a magnifier, appearing finely ciliated,
the terminal pinna larger than the others,
and divided into more angles.
FLOWERS white, confidering the largenefs of the
plant rather fmall, very like thole of the common
Ladies-fmock, but never coloured.
PEDUNCULES without any bractzea, round, fmooth,
and alternate.
: C A L YX : a Perianthium of four leaves, the leaves
oblong, hollow, upright, yellowifh, membranous
at the edge, and deciduous, fig . 1.
: CO ROL LA: four Petals, fomewhat upright, white,
with a greenilh bafe, of an oblong-oval fhape’
flightly notched, flat, with lines deeply engraven.
fig. 2.
: STAMINA: fix F ilaments, two of which are fhorter
than the others, tapering and white ; A nther
« infcumbent, purple, the top rolled
up. fig. 5. 3.
; GLANDS as in the common Ladies-fmock. fig. 7.
; GERMEN flat, finely jointed, the length of the fta-
mina; St y l e fhort and oblique; St ig m a
very minute, fig. 4.
; SEED-VESSEL: Pod and Seeds fimilar to thofe of the
common Ladies-fmock, but larger, fig. 8. o.
I J!?e Car^ 1mne am.a™ dIffers. from A« pratenfis in divers refpeCts, yet its affinity is fo confiderable as often to
K i p a ftn T bf 0f -mi^akjen for m if the following characters, which diftinguilh it in particular from that plant,
laieattcndcd to, the ftudent will not eafily be milled.
Ilhrii 6 damme praterfis is a plant common in almoft every wet meadow, this on the. contrary is much, more
■ Anlir’ i ratrerL e<as to Srow on the edges of rivulets and ftreams of water, than in the open meadow; the
of the prfenfis are ufually narrow, the fides clofing almoft together, thefe on the contrary are W e
I am oner» ^ 7 angular, more refembling indeed the water-crefs, from which fimilarity this plant has obtained
I exceoted wbth ° “ lftS °/ NaM itum' lC 1S ln every refpeCt a larger plant than the pratenfis, its blofloms
Ilefs depn’ M ?6ar 7 ° f the fame fize; and, asm the pratenfis they are always of a purple colour, more or
there form 1 t S f S i l they ar® alwa7s Perfe<aiy white, the antherse, which in the pratenfis are o f a yellow colour,
tiDs nf I? ftnkmg contraft, and appear of a deep purple, and that, fo far as I have obferved, invariably, the
I obliquity hi1;r ^ ^ k niore curled up ; the ftyle, which in the pratenfis is upright, in the amara has an unufual
I t o WhlchrI belie.ve bas not been noticed; towards the bottom of the ftalk the amara is more difpofed
[degree fr£m the aI* of tbe leave^than the pratenfis, but this character depends, in a confiderable
(have WS S Sm circumftancers ° f Ration, moifture, &c. the pratenfis has a fimilar difpbfition in degree, and I
I T 1 • en]lt tbrow out roots from the midrib of the bottom leaves.
I the Thnm«1 H H confidered a? ° " e of our plantae rariores, I have noticed it here and there on the banks of 1ijham and?,; rh? Hi Batterfea and Chelfea, Mr. dehorn, has obferved it about L ew
| 1. a m. tke neighbourhood of Uxbridge, it grows in abundance.
1 flowers “ May, and ripens its feed in June.
1 1 H H B H I re™ :n “ be difroyefed, it has a ftrong biting tafte of the crefs kind, but not that degree
, rneis which would juftify the epithet amara. ®
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