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Fumaria radice cava major flore purpureo ct albo. Moris. 



Hist. §3. p. 261. t. 12./ 6. 

 Fumaria altera. Cam. Epit. 891. / 1. 

 Pistolochia Fuchs. Hist. 91. 

 Radix cava. Doc?, pempt. 327. Lob. ieon. 759. Park. 



Parad. 275. 

 Aristolochia flore albo. Hort. Eystt. ord. vern. 1. t. 2./ 4. 

 Pseudo-Fumaria. Riv. tetrap, zrreg. ic. 73. 



Mr. Curtis in ^m early part of this work separated the 

 two varieties of Linnaeus's Fumaria bulbosa into distinct 

 species, and applied to them the very appropriate names of 

 cava and solida, which Linnaeus himself had affixed to his 

 varieties. But Willdenow inconsiderately retained the 

 name of bulbosa for the cava, and applied that of Halleri 

 to solida. And as this author has been generally followed 

 in the Hortus Kewensis, our present plant occurs therein 

 under the name of bulbosa; though that of solida is adopted 

 for the other species. De Candolle, apparently to avoid 

 the anomaly of a hollow bulb, calls it tuberosa, thus unne- 

 cessarily adding one more to the number of appellations. 



We believe that the character of entire as opposed to 

 palmate bractes will always distinguish this species from 

 solida. 



De Candolle, in the second volume of his Systema, has 

 erected the genus Fumaria, as established by Linnaeus, to 

 the dignity of a natural order, under the name of Fuma- 

 riacete. This order is divided into six distinct genera, dis- 

 tinguished chiefly by the number of petals and seeds ; and 

 Fumaria is limited to the monopetalous and one-seeded 

 species. To this we have nothing to object ; but for the 

 present we prefer adhering to the old name to the adopting 

 that of Corydalis to which genus our plant belongs accord- 

 ing to this new arrangement. Fumaria cava has not been 

 found indigenous in Britain, though it occurs in shady and 

 moist situations in almost the whole of Europe from the 

 north of Italy to Sweden, and even in Siberia and Kam- 

 tchatka. It was much more common in our gardens formerly 

 than at present. Flowers from February to the latter end of 

 April. Communicated by Messrs. Whitley, Brame, and 

 Milne. Propagated by cuttings of the root, of which 

 Parkinson says that ce being broken every part will grow." 

 In his time the white variety seems to have been most 

 common, but is now of very rare occurrence. 



