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DIADELPHIA HEXANDRIA. 

 350. FUMARIA, Fumitory. 



Lmn.Gen.362. Juss.237. Fl.Br.748. DeCand. Syst. v.2. \3\. 



Tourn.t.237. Lam. t. 597. Gcvrtn. t. Wo. 

 Coiydalis. DeCand. Syst, v. 2. 1 13. 

 Capnoides. Gcertn. t.\\5. 



Nat. Orel. Cor-ydales, Linn. 24, Pajpaveracecc, Juss. 62. 

 Ftimariacece, DeCand. Syst. 10. 



Col. inferior, of 2 opposite, erect, acute, small, membra- 

 nous, deciduous leaves. Cor» oblong, tubular, ringent, 

 with a prominent palate, closing the mouth : pet, 4, more 

 or less combined ; upper lip flat, obtuse, notched, re- 

 flexed ; its base prominent, obtuse, constituting the nee- 

 tary ; lower lip like the upper, sometimes with a similar 

 prominent nectary, sometimes only keeled, at the base ; 

 2 interior petgis alternate with the 2 lips, linear-oblong, 

 slightly connected by their callous tips. Filam, 2, awl- 

 shaped, flat, shorter than the corolla, 1 within each lip. 

 Anth, roundish, 3 terminating each filament. Germ, su- 

 perior, roundish or oblong, compressed, pointed. Style 

 terminal, short. Stigma compressed, of 2 flat lobes. 

 Pod roundish or oblong, of 1 cell, with 1 or many po- 

 lished, crested seeds. 



M. DeCandolle remarks that each prominence, at the base 

 of the corolla, contains a nectariferous gland ; and that 

 each of the lateral anthers has but one cell, there being 

 therefore only 8 cells, or, properly speaking, 4 anthers in 

 all. But it is easier to understand them as 2 double- 

 celled, and 4 single-celled, anthers. 



The plants are herbaceous, smooth, brittle, with annual or 

 perennial roots, in the latter case sometimes tuberous. 

 Stems simple or branched, mostly angular. Leaves stalk- 

 ed, variously compound. FL clustered, with partial 

 hracteas. Cor. purple, red, yellow, or white, often partly 

 green. Seed-vessels very various, insomuch that many 

 botanists, in former times as well as in our days, have 

 subdivided the genus by its fruit, and the Linnaean Fu- 

 maria makes a whole natural order of M. DeCandolle. 

 Linnaeus considered this as a genus in which one part of 

 the fructification wanders, or is itregular, of which there 

 doubtless are many instances ; but the present is an ex- 



