THE FUMITORY FAMILY. 



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A small and unimportant family, but interesting from the singular 

 conformation of the flowers. The species belong chiefly to the tem- 

 perate latitudes of the northern hemisphere. 



Six grow wild in England, and three of them near Manchester. 



A. 



Leaves ending in branched tendrils ; seed-pod oblong, flattened, and with several 

 seeds. 



, -n, 1 11 „• t (Little Climbing 



1. Flowers pale-yellow, very minute | Fujuxoky. 



B. 



Leaves without tendrils ; seed-pod globular, and one-seeded. 



2. Stem erect, generally scrambling by the help of its twisted n 



leafstalks ; sepals lai-ge, oval, twice as long as the 



seed-pod; flowers whitish flesh-colour, with purple ^ Kamp ant Fumitoby. 



tips; six to twelve in a raceme; foUage yellowish - 



green ' 



3. Stem erect, spreading, not scrambling; sepals small, \ 



acute, not longer than the seed-pod; flowers bright I ^^^^^^^^^ Fumitory. 

 pink, with deep red tips, fifteen or twenty in a raceme ; [ 

 fohage glaucous ' 



HABITATS AND LOCALITIES. 

 1. Little Climbing Fumitory — [Cort/ddlis claviculdta.) 

 Not infrequent in damp hedges, especially near and upon moorland, 

 scrambling, by the help of the bushes, to the height of a yard or more. 

 Plentiful on Hale Moss, in the neighbourhood of Carrington Moss, and 

 in the lane leading from Irlams-o'th' -Height to Agecroft. Fl. June, 

 July. Annual. 



E. B. ii. 103 (as Fumdrla claviculata). 



2. Rampant Fumitory — {Fumdria capreoldta.) 

 Common in hedges and in cultivated land, especially in the district 

 between Bowdon and Wilmslow, and a common weed about Ashton- 

 upon-Mersey. Fl. summer and autumn. Annual. 

 Curtis, ii. 411 ; E. B. xiv. 943. 

 The petioles curl like tendrils, and thus answer the same purpose, so various 

 is nature in her resources. 



3. Common Fumitory — {^Fumdria qfficindlis.) 

 Abundant in similar situations, and difiused plentifully over the 

 same area as the preceding. Fl. May — November. Annual. 

 Curtis, i. 125 ; E. B. ix. .589 : Baxter, iv. 278. 



