Ladies'-Smock, or Carda-mine, L. a genus of plants consisting of sixteen species, seven of which are indigenous : the principal of these is the pratensis, or Common Ladies'-Smock, growing in meadows and moist pastures ; it flowers in the month of May.

According to Dr. (now Sir George) Baker, the flowers of this plant may be used with great advantage in hysteric and epileptic cases, if taken twice a day, in doses of from 20 to 90 grains each. In Cornwall, the flowering tops have successfully been employed for the cure of epilepsy, for several generations. Goats and sheep devour this herb, but cows dislike it, and neither horses nor swine will touch it..