rUMARIACEAE. 



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1. FUMARIA [Tourn.] L. 



Herbs, with finely dissected leaves, and small racemose flowers. Sepals 2, 

 scale-like. Petals 4, erect-connivent, the outer pair larger, 1 of them spurred, 

 the inner narrow, coherent at the apex, keeled or crested on the back. Stamens 

 6, diadelphous, opposite the outer petals. Ovule 1; style slender; stigma 

 entire or lobed. Fruit 1-seeded, nearly globose, indehiscent. [Name from 

 the Latin, smoke, from the smoke-like smell of some species.] About 40 species, 

 all natives of the Old World. Type species: Fumaria officinalis L. 



1. Fumaria muralis Souder. Wall 

 Fumitory. (Fig. 167.) Glabrous; stems 

 diffuse or ascending, 6'-2° long. Leaves 

 petioled, finely dissected into entire or 

 lobed linear oblong or cuneate seg- 

 ments; racemes narrow; pedicels l''-2" 

 long, axillary to small bracts; flowers 

 purplish, about 3" long, darker at the 

 summit; spur rounded; nut about 1" 

 in diameter, rounded. [F. densiflora of 

 Reade and of Millspaugh; F. agraria 

 of Eeade and of H. B. Small; F. offi- 

 cinalis of Lane, Jones, Rein and Hems- 

 ley.] 



Common in waste and cultivated 

 grounds. Naturalized from Europe. Flow- 

 ers nearly throughout the year. 



Notwithstanding published records, there appears to be no evidence, by 

 specimens preserved, of more than one species of Fumaria in Bermuda. F. 

 ofPcinnlis L., European, naturalized in the United States, has a depressed- 

 globose, retuse nut. 



Family 3. BRASSICACEAE Lindl. 



Mustard Fa:mily. 



Herbs, rarely somewhat woody, with watery acrid sap, alternate leaves, 

 and racemose or corj^mbose flow^ers. Sepals 4, deciduous, or rarely per- 

 sistent, the 2 outer narrow, the inner similar, or concave, or saccate at the 

 base. Petals 4, hypogynous, cruciate, nearly equal, sfenerally clawed. 

 Stamens 6, hypogynous, tetradynamous, rarely fewer. Pistil 1, compound, 

 consisting of 2 united carpels, the parietal placentae united by a dissepi- 

 ment; style generally persistent, sometimes none; stigrma discoid or usually 

 more or less 2-lobed. Fruit a silique or silicle, generally 2-celled, rarely 1- 

 celled, in a few genera indehiscent. Seeds attached to both sides of the 



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