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FUMARIACEA2. (FUMITORY FAMILY.) 
4. FUiUARIA, L. Fumitory. 
Corolla 1-spurred at the base. Style deciduous. Fruit inde- 
hiscent, small, globular, 1-seeded. Seeds crestless.—Branched 
annuals, with finely dissected compound leaves and dense racemes 
or spikes. (Name from fumus , smoke.) 
1. F. officinalis, L. (Common Fumitory.) Sepals ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, sharply toothed, narrower and shorter than the cor 
olla; fruit slightly notched. — Waste places, about dwellings; intro 
duced. — Flowers small, flesh-color tipped with crimson. 
Order 12. CRUCIFER^E. (Mustard Family.) 
Herbs with a pungent watery juice and cruciform tetra 
dynamous flowers : fruit a silique or silicle. — Sepals > 
deciduous. Petals 4, hypogynous, regular, placed opposite 
each other in pairs, their spreading limbs forming a cross. 
Stamens 6, 2 of them inserted lower down and shorter. 0 
2-celled by a thin partition stretched between the 2 mar 
ginal placentae, from which when ripe the valves separate, 
either much longer than broad ( silique ), or short {sffid* 
or pouch ), sometimes indehiscent and nut-like (nucumert a 
ceous) or separating across into 1-seeded joints [lom^ a 
ceous). Seeds campylotropous, without albumen, filled b) 
the large embryo, which is curved or folded in various 
ways. — Leaves alternate, no stipules. Flowers in terminal 
racemes or corymbs : pedicels not bracted. — A very natu¬ 
ral, homogeneous family. 
Synopsis. 
I. Siliquosje. Pod a silique , opening by valves. 
Tribe 1. ARABIDEiE. Pod elongated (except Nasturtium) 
Cotyledons accumbent; that is, with their edges applied to tne 
radicle. Seeds flattened. , 
1. Nasturtium. Pod oblong, turgid, or barely linear and curve 
upwards. Seeds irregularly in two rows in each cell- 
2. Iodanthus. Pod linear, elongated, terete. Seeds in a single r°' v 
Petals violet-purple. 
3. Cardamise. Pod linear, flattened ; the valves nerveless. Seeds 
in a single row in each cell. Stems leafy. Flowers white 
or purple. 
