LXXXTII. 



FUMARIA OFFICINALIS. 



Cojnmon Fumitory. 



Class XVII. DiADELPHiA. — Order I. Hexandria, 



Nat. Ord, FuMARIACEiE. 



Gen. Char. Calyx of two deciduous leaves. Petals 

 four, irregular, one of them spurred at the base. Silicle 

 indehiscent, valveless, one-seeded ; style deciduous. 



Spec. Char. Silicles globose, retuse ; pedicels fruit- 

 bearing, erect, more than twice as long as the bractese. 

 Leaves supra-decompound ; leaflets w edge-shaped, cut, 

 with linear-oblong lobes. 



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SYNONYMES. 



xa'^vts. Dioscorides. 

 ''Fumarla ofScinarum et Dioscoridis. 



Fumaria purpurea. Ger. Em. 1088 



Fumaria vulgaris. Haii Syn. 204. 



Capnos Fumaria. Lob. obs, 437. 

 I Fumaria officinalis. Lin. Sp. PI. 984. 

 L Eng. Bot. t. 589. 



Fumeterre ; Fumeterre officinale. 



Fumosterno ; Fumaria. 



Fumaria; Palomilla; Hiel deterra. 



Fumaria. 



Erdrauch ; Gemeiner Erdrauch ; Taubenkropf. 



Duive-kervel ; Aard-rook ; Grysecom. 



Jordrog ; Aakersissel. 



Jordrcek. 



Kutha ptasza. 



Schahtra. 



Fingosakf. 



Bucklutulmeric. 



Bauh. Pin. 143. 

 Park. Theatr.281. 



Eng. Fl. iii. p. 255. 



Description. — The root is annual, slender, fusiform, whitish, 

 and fibrous. The stems are slender, succulent, brittle, smooth, 

 glaucous, erect or somewhat spreading, much branclied, acutely 

 pentangular, and from six to ten inches in length. The leaves 



