FUMARTACEJE. 



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Root thick, oblique or vertical. Stems erect, branching, with 

 more or less spreading hairs. Leaves lobed ; lobes 3-7, ovate, 

 incised or crenate, glabrous, glaucous above. Sepals coloured. 

 Capsule linear, slightly torulose (beaded) . Seeds ovate, shining, 

 with a white aril. 



Usually near houses : seldom far from human dwellings. Per. ; 

 April-September. 



Var. (3. laciniatum, Reich. (Fl. Ger. 4467) . Segments of the 

 leaves pinnatifid, with straight linear lobes. Petals incised-cre- 

 nulate. — About Wimbledon, under hedges and on old walls. 



FUMARIACE^, DC. 



Fig. II. Fumaria officinalis. 



The Fumitory Family. 



Annual or perennial, 

 herbaceous, succulent 

 plants, often glaucous, 

 usually yielding a bit- 

 ter juice. Leaves 2-3- 

 pinnate, petiolate, al- 

 ternate. Flowers per- 

 fect, irregular, terminal 

 or in opposite clusters 

 (opposite to the leaves) . 

 Sepals two, usually 

 toothed, petaloid, free, 

 caducous ; prefloration 

 valvular. Petals four, 

 free or more or less 

 united at the base, the 

 two lateral usually co- 

 hering at the summit, 

 the upper one pro- 

 longed at the base and 

 spurred. Stamens six, 

 with their filaments 

 united in two bundles 

 (diadelphous). Anthers 

 extrorse,the two lateral 

 anthers in each bundle 

 one-lobed, the middle 



Fig. II. — 1. Flower ; a, corolla ; I, calyx. 2. Fruit ; a, pedicel ; h, carpel. 



