256 DIADELPIIIA-OCTANDRIA. Polygala. 



F. major scandens, flore pallidiore. Raii Syn. 204. 



F. major, floribus dilute purpuieis. Magnol. Monsp. 100. Vaill. 

 Par.[)G.t. 10./. 4. 



F. viticulis et capreolis plantis vicinis adhaerens. Bench. Phi. 143. 



F. Phragmites. Dalech. Hist. I 292./. 



In cultivated fields, not common. 



S])aringly at Edmonton, and a few other places near London ; 

 more plentifully about Barnstaple, Devonshire, and elsewhere. 

 Curtis. About Battersea, in fields and garden grounds. Mr. 

 Sowerhy. In Sussex. Mr. Borrer. Very abundant about Liverpool. 



Annual. June — September. 



Most like F. officinalis, but larger in every part ; the leaves less 

 glaucous; their tendrils twisting round other ])lants, by which 

 the branching s^ew?. climbs to the height of 3 or 4 feet ; and the 

 /lowers are on the whole paler, though tlie tip of each petal is 

 deep red; the pods are not abrupt, or inversely heart-shaped, 

 but more globose, with a slight depression at each side of the 

 place of the style, which is deciduous, like that of all the single- 

 seeded Fumario'. Dr. Withering's figure erroneously represents 

 tendrils distinct from the footstalks. 



Prof. DeCandolledistinguislies our plant from what he esteems the 

 real F. capreolata of Linnaeus, of which as he understands it, a 

 plate is given in his excellent Icoites, /. 34. But in this plate all 

 i\\Q fruit-stalks are peculiarly straight and upright, which is tlie 

 character of his F, media. In our capreolata they become more 

 or less recurved as the pods ripen, which DeCandolle gives as a 

 mark of his capreolata. The Linn;ean herbarium here lends us 

 no assistance, Linnseus having adopted his F. capreolata from 

 other authors, w ithout possessing a specimen , if he ever saw one. 

 Our plant however is that of his pupil Ehrhart, and of Jacquin, 

 from each of whom I have specimens. The calyx-leaves in all 

 my specimens are nearly as entire as in DeCandolle's figure ; 

 being much less toothed than in Curtis's. 

 The synonyms of the various Fuiiiaricc in old authors might afford 

 materials for an ample dissertation. 



DIADELPHIA OCTANDTITA. 

 351. POLYGALA. Milkwort. 



Linn. Gen. ^(y A. Juss.99. F/. Br. 752. DeCand. Prodr.v. \.S2\. 

 Tourn. t. 79. Lum, t. 598. Gcrrtn. t. 02. 



