FUMITORY. 



Fttmnria qflicinnlin. Nat. Ord., 

 Fiunariacca:. 



N old writer has said : " There 

 be divers herbes compre- 

 hended under the title of 

 Fumitorie : some wilde, and 

 , others of the garden." The 

 common fumitory is an an- 

 nual ; it may be found almost 

 everywhere on dry land, on 

 high-lying fields, and by the 

 roadside, though it seems to 

 prefer fields under cultiva- 

 tion ; it. often appears in the 

 garden, and, in such situations, 

 it may be found in flower 

 during the whole of' the sum- 

 mer and the greater part of 

 the autumn, if it be sufficiently 

 fortunate to escape the weed- 

 cleansing hoe. Small and insignificant as the plant 

 appears, it has won a place for itself in our literature, 

 for we find it referred to by Clare, Shakespeare, and 

 other less well-known writers. In the middle ages the 

 fumitory was boiled in milk and used as a cosmetic by 

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