24 BRITISH BOTANY. 



one two-lobed. Ovary consisting of two carpels ; ovules several^ 

 or one only. Style filiform^ caducous or persistent. Stigma 

 two-lobed j lobes compressed, usually crenulate. Fruit dry, one- 

 celled and one-seeded, net opening, or many-seeded, with valvu- 

 lar dehiscence (opening). Seeds reniform. Perisperm fleshy, 

 thick. Embryo minute, situated near the micropyle (opening; 

 the foramen of the ovule is the mycropyle of the seed) . Radicle 

 near the hilum. 



SYNOPSIS OF THE ftENEEA. 



CoEYDALis. — Fruit a compressed, two-valved, many-seeded pod, 

 FuMAElA. — Friiit one-seeded, not opening. 



CoRYDALis, DC. — Perennial or annual plants, with simple or 

 branched, solitary or numerous stems. Leaves 2-3-pinnate. 

 Flowers yellow or purple, rarely white. Lower petal channelled, 

 with a flat limb ; inner petals coherent at the summit, with la- 

 teral enlargements. Style caducous or persistent. Fruit a com- 

 pressed, many-seeded pod. Seeds smooth, shining, with an aril, 

 lenticular {in the shape of a lens) . 



C. solida, Smith?* Hook.? Bulbous Fumitory. — e.b. 1471. 

 L.B.S. 49. 



Roots tuberous, solid. Stems solitary, about a span high, erect, 

 simple, with a scale near the base (a rudimentary leaf) . Leaves 

 twice temate, the segments of the first series being on long pe- 

 tioles; the segments of the second series being cuneate, with 

 entire or cut lobes. Bracts cuneate, incised. Flowers purple, 

 rarely white ; upper petal notched, with a long spur. Pedicels 

 about as long as the capsule. Seeds smooth, shining. 



In groves and thickets, but sparingly. Per. ; March- April. 

 Perhaps a doubtful native, Sm. in Eng. Fl. vol. 3. p. 252. It 

 appears to be extensively distributed over the middle and south 

 of France, see Grenier et Godron, part 1. p. 65. A very doubt- 

 ful native, Mr. Babington, Man. Brit. Bot. p. 14. Are its claims 

 to be regarded as a spontaneous British production doubtful? 

 In ' Cybele,' vol. i. p. 110, Mr. Watson says, "Much less esta- 



* Grenier and Godron, ' Flore de France,' quote Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 353, as the 

 authority for this name. The thu'd volunae of the ' English Flora' does not con- 

 tain so many pages. The plant is described in Eng. Fl. vol. iii. pp. 251 and 252. 

 In ' Flore des Environs de Paris,' Fl. Brit, of the same author is quoted as the 

 authority. Mr. Babington, in the second edition of his ' Manual of British Bo- 

 tany,' refers to Hooker. 



