DENTARIA, TOOTH-WORT, or Tooth-violet; a genus of the filiquosa order, belonging to the tetradymania class of plants. There are three species, all of them hardy perennials; producing annual stalks 12 or 18 inches high, adorned with many-lobed leaves, and spikes of quadrupetalous cruciform flowers of a red or purple colour.
Dentated colour. They delight in shady places; and are propagated either by seeds, or parting the roots. The seeds may be sown in autumn, or early in the spring, in a shady border of light earth; and when the plants are three inches high, they may be planted where they are to remain. The time for parting the roots is in October or November, or early in the spring.