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furrowed ; flowers pale yellow. — Damp wastes and meadows. 

 Fl. June to October. 



(2) Fimiaria. Fumitory. 



P. oflacinalis : annual; stem much-branched; leaves much 

 cut ; flowers rose-coloured, sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 toothed, narrower and two-thirds shorter than the corolla; 

 fruit globose, truncate, slightly emarginate. — A common 

 weed. Fl. June to September. 



P. capreolata : annual ; stem climbing by means of the 

 twisting petioles ; leaves much cut ; flowers cream-coloured, 

 tipped with red, sepals ovate, acute, toothed, as broad as the 

 corolla and half its length ; fruit globose, emarginate. — Cul- 

 tivated ground. Fl. June to September. 



(3) Diplotaxis. 



D.tenuifolia: stem 1-1 J foot high, shrubby below, branched, 

 glabrous, leafy ; leaves glaucous, linear-lanceolate, very acute, 

 sinuate-dentate or pinnatifid, the segments linear, remotely 

 dentate ; flowers large, yellow ; plant fetid. — Old walls and 

 wastes. Fl. June to October. 



(4) Senebiera. 



S. didyma : annual ; stem spreading, prostrate, a foot or 

 more in length; leaves pinnatifid; flowers small, white, in 

 long, lax, slender clusters; pouch notched, of two wrinkled 

 lobes ; style extremely short. — Waste ground near the sea. 

 Fl. July to September. 



(5) Dianthus. Pink. 



D. prolifer: annual; stem erect, wiry, 1-1 i foot high; 



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