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FUMARIA eximia. 



Lyons new Fumitory. 



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DIADELPIIIA HEXANDRlA. 



re 



MARIA. Cal. minimus. Pet. roatqualia & irregularia, quo- 

 rum 1 vel 2 basi calcaratum. Fil. 2, basi latiora Sc approxmiatu, singula 

 triantherifera, anthera media biloculari, lateralibus forsad imilocularibus. 

 Stylus brevissimus ; stigma orbiculatum bisulcum. Siliqua monosperma 

 brevis non dehiscens, aut polysperma longior bivalvis, aut capsnlaris 



globosa inflata polysperma trivalvis. Folia multipartita) interdilm bi- 



piunata aut biternata. racheos apice noiuuuiquum cirrhoso ; Jiores >pi- 

 cati terrninahs. Jussieu. gen. 237. 



Dir. Corollis bicalcaratis. 

 V. eximia , foliis decompositis ; racemo composite), racemulis bracteatis, 

 pendulo-cymosis ; corolla infra cordata, lobis posticis brevissimis ex- 

 trorsum lato-rotundatis, introrsum conniventibus ; faucc bilobo-apicu- 

 lata; stigmate in laminam cruciato-quadratam birnucronatam com- 

 presso. 



Folia Icevia, bipinnatajbliolis oblongis pinnatijidis^laciniis acutulis. Caulis 

 hand raro ramosus. Racemus multijlorus, compositus ; racemuli plurimi, 

 cymosij sparsi, scepe iterurn divisi ; pedicelli jib [formes, laxi, J/ore pendulo 

 triplo breviores, basi bibracteati. Corolla rosea, subuncialis, bilabiata ; labia 

 exac& cequalia, divaricata, ovali-lanceolata, in concavo disco atropurpurea ; 

 iaux clausa, atropurpurea, terminata lobulo bifido, latcribus alatis. Stylus 

 directus : stigma lamina periphecrice cartilaginea, erecta, quadricornis vel 

 quadrata et utrinque exterius leviter indent at a. 



A species of 



been 



to trace am 



account. It comes very close to the Siberian spectabii 



especially in regard to the corolla; but there 

 simple and the pedicles are without bractcs. 

 differences may exist; for the latter has n< 

 our gardens, and is only known to us by a slight descrip- 

 tion and the figure in Amocnitates academical; unless in- 

 deed a soecimen in the Banksian Herbarium from Nootka 



Perbap 



y 



a specimen 



Sound should 

 the fact 



P 



be 



same, which we suspect is 



Formosa is the nearest to eximia of any species 

 in this country ; but in that the 



b 



at 



f 



corolla are longer and narrower, and not, as here, 



d 



prominent at the edge; neither is the apex of the f; 



two-lobed, 



o 



four-cornered, b 



