FUMARIACE^E 15 



Order V. FUMARIACE^E. 



Flowers irregular; sepals 2, deciduous; petals 4, one 

 or two of them gibbous or spurred ; stamens 6, in two 

 bundles of 3 each; ovary i-celled. A small order; chiefly 

 of western distribution. Not alpine. 



I. FUMARIA, L. 



Flowers small, usually pink; one only of the outer 

 petals spurred; fruit globose, i-seeded. 



Our English species of Fumitory ; F. officinalis, L., 

 parviflora. Lam., and Vaillantii, Lois, are weeds in cul- 

 tivated and waste land; and F. capreolata, L., locally 

 in the neighbourhood of Geneva, Lausanne, and Eastern 

 Pyrenees. 



2. CORYDALIS, DC. 



Flowers usually larger, and white, yellow, or violet ; 

 one petal only spurred ; fruit a 2-valved capsule, many- 

 seeded. 



A . Root tuberous ; flowers violet, purple, or white : 

 C. cava, Schw., with thick curved spur; C. fabacea, 

 Pers., with straight spur and nearly sessile flowers ; and 

 C. solida, Sm., with straight spur and flowers on longer 

 stalks ; in hilly woods in Jura, Southern Switzerland, 

 Vosges, Dauphiny, and Pyrenees. 



B. Root fibrous : C. lutea, DC., with large yellow 

 flowers ; Ticino, very local. C. daviculata, DC. ; a very 

 pretty climbing plant, with small nearly white or very 

 pale yellow flowers ; Pyrenees. C. ochroleuca, Koch, 

 flowers yellowish-white with dark tips, is reported from 

 Monte Generoso. 



