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this country, and in the winter must be kept in a warm in- 

 habited room ; for it is commonly treated as a stove-plant. 

 The fresh air should be admitted in the summer, and it 

 should always be kept moist. This is an elegant plant for 

 the drawing-room or study. 



FUMITORY. 



FUMARIA. 



FUMARIDEJE. DIADELPHIA HEXANDRIA. 



So named from a notion that it affects the eyes like smoke, or rather 

 because a bed of the common kind when in flower appears at a distance 

 like a dense smoke. French, fumiterre ; the common species by the 

 villagers is called coridalo. 



THE Red Canadian Fumitory is a handsome plant with 

 large flowers. The Evergreen Fumitory has purple flowers, 

 which bloom all the summer : it is a native of North 

 America. They may be sown in the autumn ; two or three 

 seeds in a pot eight inches wide ; and watered occasionally 

 in dry weather. The Naked-stalked Fumitory, a native of 

 Canada, has white and yellow blossoms, and may be in- 

 creased by offsets from the roots, which should be planted 

 in the autumn when the leaves have decayed. 



The Great-flowered Siberian, with white and yellow 

 flowers, blowing in May ; and the Bulbous Fumitory, 

 with purple, blush-coloured, or white flowers, may also 

 be increased by offsets. The time to transplant these is 

 between May and August (inclusive), as the leaves die off. 

 They are pretty, and very hardy. As they do not increase 

 very fast, they should not be parted oftener than once in 

 three years. They like a light sandy soil, and the earth 

 should be kept moderately moist. The last species grows 

 wild in many parts of Europe. It has the scent of the 

 Cowslip. 



The Bladderecl Fumitory is rather tender. It is an an- 

 nual plant, raised in -a hot-bed, and not exposed to the open 



