202 SUMMER FLOWERS. 



pods ovoid or elliptical. Waste places, naturalized near the 

 sea. Fl. May, June. The thick roots are eaten as a condi- 

 ment with meat. 



(40) Camelina. GOLD OF PLEASURE. 



C. sativa : annual ; stem simple or slightly branched, 12 

 feet high ; lowest leaves stalked, lanceolate, entire, 1-2 inches 

 long, the upper ones sessile, clasping the stem with pointed 

 auricles; pods obovate, in a long, loose raceme. Corn and 

 flax fields. Fl. June. 



(41) Pumaria. FUMITORY. 



P. officinalis : annual, tufted or diffuse, ^1 foot high ; 

 leaves much divided into numerous flat segments, generally 

 three-lobed, the lobes broadly lanceolate or oblong ; flowers in 

 racemes of 12 inches long, at first dense, often lengthening 

 out, red, the sepals ovate-lanceolate, narrower than the corolla 

 tube ; nuts rugose, retusely globose. Cultivated ground. Fl. 

 May to September. The two following plants are often sepa- 

 rated as species : 



Var. micrantha : leaf-segments usually small ; flowers pale 

 red, smaller and in closer racemes, the sepals remarkably 

 large, broader than the corolla tube. Fields. 



Var. parviflora : leaf-segments narrow ; flowers small, white 

 or rarely red, the sepals very small, sometimes quite minute. 

 Fields. 



F. capreolata : annual, climbing or diffuse ; stems two feet 

 or more high ; leaves cut into numerous divisions, with 

 broadish flat lobes ; flowers white or pale red, the sepals 

 ovate toothed, as broad as the corolla tube; nuts nearly orbi- 

 cular. Walls and Hedges. Fl. June to September. 



