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on comprend que, quoyque le corps meme manque, 

 les formes sontpourtantaux cendres leur demeure,'" 

 An exclamation which we cannot but acknowledge 

 to have been moderate enough under the circum- 

 stances. 



This physician died in the year 1609, but the 

 narrator informs us, that in his own time the expe- 

 riment was far more common, being shewn " every 

 day" by M. de Claves, " one of the most eminent 

 chymists of the day/'* 



Though little resembling 

 the poppy family in appear- 

 ance, the Fumariacece are 

 nearly allied to them, and, 

 as Sir J. E. Smith observes, 

 this natural order appears 

 to constitute an " interme- 

 diate grade" between the 

 Papaveracece and Crucife- 

 rce^ forming a very inte- 

 resting link in the natural 

 system, and one which 

 proves the excellence of the 

 grounds on which it takes 

 its stand. We have in the 

 British isles but four fuma- 

 rias ; as the corydali, which 

 were so long confounded with them, have now been 

 separated from the genus on account of the diffe- 

 rences exhibited by the fruits. In corydalis they 



* Bayle himself died in 1706. 

 f " English Flora." 



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RAMPING FUMITORY 

 (Fumaria capreoldta.) 



