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FUMARIA aurea. 

 Golden american Fumitory 



DIADELPHIA 1IEXASDRJA, 



FUMARIA. Supra fol. 50. 



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F. aurea j caule ramoso diffuso, foliis bipinnatis, foliolis partitis lineari- 

 lanceolatis utrinque acutis, racemis secundis, bracteis lato-lanceolalis 

 subdenticulatis, siliquis teretibus turgidis (torosis) pedunculo duplo Ion- 

 gioribus. (Pursh ubi infra, sub Cori/dali.) 



Corydalis aurea. Willd. enum. 740. Pursh amer. sept. 2. 463. 



Annua. Caulis diffuse ramosus. Folia pinnata, foliolis pinnatif 

 i lineari-lanceolatis acutis, interdum incisis. Racemus pluriflorus, simplex. 



Bracteoe lanceolatce, supra denticulatce, pedicellum cequantes v. longiores. 



cequans, dimi 

 lamina acuta. 



njimum infr 



We learn from Mr. Pursh, that the native abode of 

 this plant extends from Pensylvania to Virginia, and 

 that shady rocks are the situations it principally affects. 

 The first mention we find of the species is in Will- 

 denow's late enumeration of the plants cultivated in the 

 Berlin garden. It has not found a place in the last edition 

 of the Ilortus Kewensis. From the common Fumaria 

 lutea it differs in being biennial, not perennial; in having a 

 corolla with pointed petals, not blunt and rounded; a spur 

 more than half the length of the flower, straight and equal to 

 the pedicle, not deflex, and several times shorter than both 

 pedicle and corolla; by a seed-vessel which is torose and 

 twice as long as the pedicle, not linear, even, and shorter 

 than the pedicle. The corolla is of a golden yellow, more 

 than half an inch long, and has a protuberance below the 

 middle of the undermost petal. In reality, were it not for 

 the colour of the flower, lutea would not have presented 

 itself as the point of comparison, but sempervirem, to which 

 it is far nearer akin. 



We have not learned the date of its introduction, but 

 suspect that it has found its way here from the parisian 

 gardens, where it had probably travelled from that of Ber- 

 lin, in which it is known to have been raised by Willdenow 



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