FUMARIA.] fUMARIACEJB. 19 



tube, pedicels as long as the bracts, fruit pointed at the top. England, 

 rare. 



Sub-sp. VAILLAN'TII, Loisel. (sp.); leaf-segments flat, racemes lax-flowered, 

 sepals lanceolate A as long and ^ as broad as the corolla- tube, pedicels 

 longer than the bracts, fruit rounded at the top. Yorkshire and S.E. 

 England. 



2. CORYD'ALIS, DC. 



Erect herbs, with a tuberous rootstock, or weak and diffuse, or slender 

 and climbing by tendrils. Leaves much divided, alternate or subopposite. 

 Racemes terminal or leaf-opposed. Sepals 2, scale-like. Floral characters 

 of Fumaria, but the ovules more numerous, and fruit an inflated 2-valved 

 capsule. Seeds small, raphe often crested. DISTRIB. Chiefly Mediter- 

 ranean and Himalayan, a few American and African ; species 70. ETYM. 

 Greek for a Fumaria. 



1. C. clavic'ulata, DC. ; annual, branched, climbing by branched 

 tendrils terminating the petioles. 



Copses, banks, and thatched roofs; ascending to near 1,000ft.; N.E. of 

 Ireland only; fl. June-Aug. Stems 1-3 ft., brittle, slender. Leaves: 

 glaucous, pinnate, 3- or digitately 5-foliolate ; segments small, ovate or 

 oblong. Racemes opposed to the leaves ; pedicels very short ; bracts cuspi- 

 date. Flowers % in. , straw-coloured ; spur very short. Pods % in. linear- 

 oblong. Testa shining, granulate. DISTRIB. W. Europe, from Denmark and 

 Germany to Spain. 



C. LU'TEA, DC. ; perennial, root fibrous, stems many diffuse, leaves 2-3- 

 ternately pinnate, raceme leaf-opposed, flowers yellow. 

 Old walls; an escape from cultivation; fl. May- Aug. Roof stock branched. 

 Stem 6-12 in., angular. Leaves on long petioles, leaflets oblong-ovate or 

 obovate, entire or lobed. Peduncles long ; bracts lanceolate, erose. Floivers 

 J-J in. , subsecund ; spur short, thick, incurved. Pod oblong, compressed acu- 

 minate ; style deciduous. DISTRIB. W. Europe from Belgium southwards. 

 C. SOI/IDA, Hook. ; perennial, rootstock tuberous, stem simple, leaves 

 2-3-ternately pinnate, raceme terminal, flowers purple. C. bulbo'sa, DC. 

 Banks and cultivated ground, naturalized in England ; fl. April-May. Very 

 glaucous. Rootstock 1 in. diam. and upwards. Stem 6-10 in., stout, with 

 one or two oblong scales below, and a few leaves about the middle. 

 Leaves on stout petioles ; leaflets broad, flowers 1 in. subsecund, bracts 

 lobed, leafy ; spur longer than the rest of the corolla. Pod narrow, lance- 

 olate ; style persistent. Cotyledons connate. DISTRIB. Europe, from Den- 

 mark southwards. 



ORDER VI. CRUCIF'ER.ffi. 



Herbs. Radical leaves in a rosette, caoiline alternate, exstipulate. 

 Flowers racemed. Sepals 4, free ; 2 lateral (opposite the placentas) 

 often larger and saccate at the base, imbricate in bud. Petals 4, free, 

 hypogynous, placed crosswise, imbricate in bud. Stamens 6 (rarely 1, '2, 

 or 4), in 2 series ; 2 outer opposite the lateral sepals ; 4 inner longer, 

 in opposite pairs. Disk with usually 4 glands opposite the sepals. 

 Ovary 2-celled, by a vertical prolongation of the placentas, or 1 -celled, 

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