DIADELPHIA HEXANDRIA. 379 



C L A S S I S XVIL 

 DIADELPHIA. 



H E X A N D R I A. 



FUMARIA. Gen. pi. 849. 



Cal diphyllus. Cor., ringens. Filamenta 2, niem- 

 branacea, fingula arakeris 3. 



FUMARIA pericarpiis monofpermis racemofis, 

 caulc difFufo. Sp. pt. 984. (Ger. an. 1088. /. i. 

 Riz'in. ietrap. irreg. t. I. Miller, ic. pi. i'^6. f. 2. 

 Blackwell L 237 j 



Common, or officinal Fumitory, yfnglis. 



In corn fields and gardens frequent. G. V. VI. 



The ftalks are eight or nine inches high, numerous, 

 weak, angular, ilicculent, intricately branch'd, 

 and arife from a fibrous root : the leaves are 

 glaucous, and doubly pinnated, the pinnuU di- 

 vided into three lobes, which are bifid and trifid : 

 the flowers are purple, and grow in thick fpikes : 

 the calyx is dentated : the end of the aU, and 

 and fides of the 'vexillum are of a dark purple, 

 but the middle of the vexillum in the fore part 

 is greenifh : at the bafe is a thick nectariferous 

 fcale, ending in a blunt curved fpur: the peri- 

 carpium is globular. 



The 



