MACLOSKIE: CRUCIFER^E. 421 



(Chili ; also cultivated and its leaves used for infusing and as a potherb, 

 and nuts edible); W. Patagon., by Lago Nahuel-haupi. Fig. in Eng. & 

 Prantl, iii, 2, p. 102, A-D. 



Family 43. PAPAVERACE^:. Subfamily Fnmarioidece. 



Fumitory. 



Delicate, smooth herbs, with finely dissected leaves, and zygomorphous 



flowers in racemes or spikes, or rarely solitary. Sepals 2, minute. Petals 



4, outer pair larger. Stamens 6, diadelphous, opposite the outer petals. 



Embryo minute. 



FUMARIA Linn. 



/<>7y rounded, indehiscent, i -seeded. 

 Species 15, Old World. 



i. F. CAPREOLATA Linn. 



Sepals scarcely one fifth as long as the corolla. The globose fruit is 

 constricted at the base into a neck. Fruiting pedicels recurved, longer 

 than the bract. 



Partially climbing, by means of its long twining petioles. 



(Eur., W. Asia, and N. Afr.) ; common about Buenos Aires and south- 

 ward; in N. Patagon.; "doubtless introduced." (J. Ball.) 



2. F. MEDIA Lois. 



Sepals one third as long as the corolla. Fruit globose, depressed ; 

 fruiting pedicels erect, twice as long as the bract. Racemes rather lax. 

 Stems erect. Leaves compound above, their petioles subcirrhose. Annual. 



(Europe) ; N. Patagon., in fields near Carmen. 



Family 44. CRUCIFER.E. Mustard Family. 



Herbs, with watery pungent sap, alternate leaves, and racemose to 

 corymbose, hypogynous, cruciate flowers, sometimes apetalous. Stamens 

 6, tetradynamous, or fewer by abortion. Ovary 2-celled, with a thin sep- 

 tum and parietal placentae. Fruit a silique, or a silicic. Seeds with 

 folded embryo, and no endosperm. 



Species 1,500, widely distributed, especially extratropical ; non-poison- 

 ous. (In collecting secure the ripe fruit.) 



