108 NAT. ORDER. FDMARIACE^. 



any alteration of position on the part of either organ, the mere con- 

 traction of the valves of Uie anthers is sufficient to shed the polen 

 upon tliat spot where it is required to perform the ofiice of secunda- 

 tion. Their principal range is in the temperate latitudes of the 

 northern hemisphere, where they inhabit thickets and waste places. 



Famaria cucullaria. Naked-stalked Fumitory. This plant is an 

 annual ; the stem upright, about a foot and a half high, roinid, and 

 very smooth, sending out several branches at the top ; the leaves 

 smooth, branching, pale, divided like the common sort, but the leaf- 

 lets larger and more obtuse ; the flowers hang in loose panicles from 

 the sides of the stem and at the extremity of the branches, of a pur- 

 ple color, with yellow chops or lips ; the pods are tapering, narrow, 

 an inch and a half long, and contains many small, black shining 

 seeds. It flowers during the summer, and is a native of N. America. 



' Fumaria lutea. Yellow Fumitory. In this species the root 

 strikes deep into the ground; the stems are many, succulent, diffused 

 and six inches in height ; the leaves on long, brandling petioles, 

 composed of many irregular leaflets, trifid at tlie top; peduncles 

 axillary, naked, longer than the leaves, supporting eight or nine 

 flowers of a bright yellow color, and hang in a loose spike ; the 

 leaves continue green all the year, and the flowers in succession from 

 April to October. It is suppo.sed to be a native of Barbary. 



Fumaria capnoidcs. White-flowered Fumitory. This is an 

 annual ; the stem four cornered at the base ; the leaves superde- 

 compound, the terminating leaflets larger, and semitrifid ; the middle 

 segment lobcd ; the petioles three cornered ; the racemes naked ; the 

 pedicles about one-half the length of the corolla, and blackish at the 

 tip. There is a succession of the flowers from May to October. It 

 is a native of the south of Europe. 



Fumaria officinalis. Officinal Fumitory. In this species the 

 pods are globose, retuse ; fructiferous pedicles erect, double the 

 length of thebracteas; racemes rather loose; stem diffuse; leaves 

 supra-decompound : lobes linear. This is nn annual plant, native 



