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FUMARIA NOBILIS. 

 Large-flowered Fumitory. 



DlADELPIIIA. HexANDRIA, 



Class 17. Order 2. 



Linn, si/st. C30. But. Mag. \9i>3. 



GKNERIC CIIARACTKR. 



Vide PI. 28. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Stems simple. Bractcas shorter than the flower, undivided. 



Herbaceous, perennial. Root leaves seven to nine, a span in 

 height, bipinnate. Stem erect, angular, furnished with three 

 or four leaves near the flower ; they are sessile and compound, 

 of a dark green on their upper surface, and glaucous under- 

 neath. Tlie flowers are at the extremity of the stem forming 

 a kind of abrupt raceme, they are all directed the same way. 

 Bracteas ovate, lanceolate, entire. Flowers of a pale green or 

 nearly white, excepting towards the throat, where they ara of 

 a dark brown approaching to black, with a bright yellow bor- 

 der surrounding. Calyx minutely toothed. Capsule thin, fri- 

 able. Seed large, lenticular, beaked, very smooth, dark and 

 shining. 



