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FUMARIACE^ 



1. CoRYDALis. — Fruit a compressed, 2-valved, many-seeded 

 capsule. 



2. FuMARiA. — Fruit a globose, indehiscent, i-seeded achene. 



I. CoRYDALis (Corydalis). — Herbs with much-divided glabrous 

 leaves 2in6. bracteate racemes of small m onosym metric yf^2£/^rj-; 

 petals connivent ; the upper one spurred ; capsule mciny-sepded. 



FUMAKiA OFFICINALIS {Commoft Fumitory). 



(The Greek name Corydalis was employed for this or some allied 

 plant by Galen.) 



I. C . - claviculdta (Climbing Corydalis). — Stem slender, climb- 

 ing ; leaves glaucous, pinnate, ending in branched tendrils ; 

 flowers yellowish-white ; spur very short. A clambering plant, 

 with delicate green stems and foliage, rising to the height of 

 several feet, by the help of the bushes among which it grows. 

 The only indigenous species. — Fl. June— August. Annual. 



* Two other species are naturalised in Britain : C. butbosa, a 

 perennial with a tuberous rhizome, unbranched aerial stem, no 

 tendrils and purple flowers, and lutea, not uncommon on old 



