19 April. (Compare winter.)
Cardamine pratensis.Cuckoo Flower, Lady's Smock, Meadowcress.
These floure for the most part in Aprill and May, when the Cuckow begins to sing her pleasant notes without stammering.
- John Gerarde, 1597
When daisies pied and violets blue
And lady-smock all silver white
And Cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight.
- Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost
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