458 | ORD. XXV. Lomentacee. 
FUMARIA OFFICINALIS. COMMON FUMITORY. 
aa aR eT strana A TS 
SYNONYMA, Fumaria. Pharm. Edinb. Fumaria officinarum 
' et Dioscoridis. Bauh. Pin. p. 143. Fumaria purpurea. Gerard. 
Emac. p. 1088. Fumaria vulgaris. Park. Theat. p. 287. Raii 
Hist. p. 405. -Synop. p. 284, Fumaria foliis multifidis lobis sub- 
rotunde lanceolatis; fructibus monospermis. Hal. Stirp. Helv. n. 
346. Hudson Flor. Ang. p. 270. Lightfoot Flor. Scot. p. 379. 
Curtis Flor. Lond. n. 112. Withering. Bot. Arrang. p. 751. 
Class Diadelphia. Ord. Hexandria. Lin. Gen. Plant. 849. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal, dyphyllus. Cor. ringens. —- Filamenta 2. 
membranacea, singula Antheris 3. 
Sp. Ch. F. pericarpiis monospermis racemosis, caule diffuso. 
THE root is annual, slender, and fibrous: the stalk is spreading, 
smooth, somewhat angular, bending, much branched, and usually 
‘rises above a foot in height: the leaves are compound, doubly 
pinnated, pinnulz trilobed, of a pale green colour, and standing 
upon slender footstalks: the flowers are of a reddish purple colour, 
and grow in spikes, which arise from the axille of the leaves: the 
bractee are linear, purplish, and placed at the base of the pedun- 
cles: the calyx is composed of two deciduous equal leafits, slightly 
indented at the edges: the corolla is oblong, tubular, gaping, or 
ringent, the palate projecting so as to fill up the mouth; the upper 
lip dilated at the tip, keel-shaped, hollow beneath, turned a little 
upwards at the margin, and at the base obtuse, and curled inward ; 
the lower lip is nearly similar to the upper; the lateral petals 
cohere at the top, and form a quadrangular mouth, in which there 
are three divisions on the upper and lower part: the filaments are 
two, membranous, broad at the base, and each furnished with 
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