DIADELPHIA OCTANDRU^ 



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FUMARIA. 



Petalum umcum ba- I One petal gibbous 

 si gibbum aut calcar- or spiiired at base, 

 atum. Fructns (cari- I Fruit (a cariopsis) 1 

 opsis) indehiseens, 1- seeded^ not opening 

 sperma. 



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FFICJjNALIS. 



F. siliculisgloboso- 

 retusis; pedicellis fruc- 

 tiferis erectis, bractea 

 dupio longioribus; ra- 

 cerais laxiusculis^caide 



erecto; foliis supra de- J erect; leaves supra de- 

 compositis, lobis lin- ] compound, lobes lin 

 €aribus. De Cand. 



Pods globose, re- 

 tuse; pedicels of the 

 fruit erect, twice as 

 long as the bractea ; 

 racemes loose ; stem 



ear. 



, Pursh 2. p. ACi3. De Cand. Syst. Nat. 2. p. 134. * 



Root annual, fusiform. Stem 6 — 10 inches high, branching, and witU 

 the whole plant glabrous and slightly glaucous, heaves variously dissecr 

 ied, in general compoundly 3-parted, segments many cleft. Flotcerg in 

 racemes. Peduncles opposite Xhe leaves, robust, and in geneio^ much 

 longer than the leave?. Calyx 2-leaved, very small. Petals 4, the low. 



er one 



deeply 



Upear, free, the 3 upper luiited 



9. 



,corolla. Stigma bijamellate* Capsule globose, smooth, 1-seeded. 



An exotic now becoming naturalized in this country. Very common 

 fm James' Island and at Mr. Middleton's, Ashley river. 



Grows in dry sandy sqils. 

 * Flowers m April. 



OCTANDRIA. 



POL YG ALA, Gen. Pl, 1154. 



Calyx 5-phyllus, 



folidis duobiis alaefor- 



Calyx 5-leaved, % 

 of them wing shfipecl^ 



