FUMARIACE.E i5 



Order V.— F(JMARIACE.4i:. 



Flowers irregular; sepals 2, deciduous; petals 4, one 

 or two of them gibbous or spurred ; stamens 6, in two 

 bundles of 3 each; ovary i-celled. A small order; chiefly 

 oi western distribution. Not alpine. 



I. FU MARIA, L. 



Flowers small, usually pink ; one only of the outer 

 petals spurred ; fruit globose, i-seeded. 



Our English species of Fumitory ; F. ojjicinalis^ L., 

 parviflora^ Lam., and Vaillantii, Lois, arc weeds in cul- 

 tivated and waste land ; and F. capreolata^ L., locally 

 in the neighbourhood of Geneva, Lausanne, and Eastern 

 Pyrenees. 



2. COKYDALIS, DC. 



Flowers usually larger, and white, yellow, or violet ; 

 one petal only spurred ; fruit a 2-valved capsule, many- 

 seeded. 



A. Root tuberous; flowers violet, purple, or white: — 

 C. cava, Scliw., with thick curved spur; C. fabacea, 

 Pers., with straight spur and nearly sessile flowers; and 

 C. solida, Sm., with straight spur and flowers on longer 

 stalks ; in hilly woods in Jura, .Southern Switzerland, 

 Vosges, Dauphiny, and Pyrenees. 



/>. Root fibrous: — C. lutea, DC, with large yellow 

 flowers; Ticino, very local. C. claviculatay DC; a Mi:,\:y 

 pretty climbing plant, with small nearly white or very 

 pale yellow flowers ; Pyrenees. C. ochroleuca^ Koch, 

 flowers yellowish-white with dark tips, is reported from 

 Monte Generoso. 



