952 FUMARIA. (CLASS XVII. ORDER I, 
English Botany, t. 943.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 253.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 265.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 19. 
Root tapering, slender, the whole plant smooth, and somewhat 
glaucous, often of a yellowish green colour. Stems slender, climbing, 
or spreading, branched. Leaves numerous, bipinnate, their footstalks 
long, slender, twisting round other plants, and so climbing three or 
four feet high; sometimes the leaf stalks terminate in slender branched 
tendrils ; leaflets mostly ovate, or oblong, sometimes ovate lanceolate. 
Inflorescence erect racemes, opposite the upper leaves, the stalk from 
one to two inches long, lax in fruit, with the pedicles spreading or 
reflexed, the bracteas pale, thin, membranous, linear, about one- 
third less than the pedicles. J’lowers rather large, pale pink, the 
petals tipped with dark red. Calyx of two broadly ovate acute pieces, 
mostly with a tooth or dilitation on one side at the base, pale, and 
about half as long as the corolla, petals unequal, the two lateral ones 
linear, the lower one narrower, and mostly rather shorter, the upper 
as wide again, concave, and enlarged at the base into an ovate obtuse 
spur or pouch. /ruit roundish, somewhat compressed, obtuse, and 
slightly indented on each side of the base of the deciduous style. 
Seed solitary, smooth. 
Habitat.—W aste and cultivated places ; not uncommon. 
Annual ; flowering from May to August. 
This is a very variable plant, both as regards its size and appear- 
ance, from the circumstance that its stem is sometimes not more than 
a foot long, and scarcely branched, and at others it is three or four 
feet long, and much branched and slender; and the leaves vary in 
size and form, and are either with or without branched tendrils, but 
simply twist round other adjacent plants, and thus support them- 
selves, The true characters which distinguish this as a species, are 
its enlarged calyx segments, the shape of its fruit, and its spreading 
or reflexed fruit-bearing pedicles. 
2. F. officina'lis, Linn. (Fig. 1104.) Common Fumitory. Calyx 
sepals ovate lanceolate, acute, toothed, about one-third the length of 
the petals ; fruit broadly ovate, globose, compressed, truncated, and 
sub-emarginated ; bracteas small, two or three times shorter than the 
fruit-bearing pedicles ; leaves with linear oblong segments. 
English Botany, t. 589.—English Flora, vol. iii. p, 254.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 266.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 19. 
B. media. ‘“ Stem diffuse, or climbing, green, the leaflets broad. 
Arn. MSS.—f’. media. —De Cand.” Prod. 1. p. 130.—Hooker, British 
Flora. 
Root slender, tapering. Stem erect, branched, and spreading, or 
climbing, smooth, angular, very variable in size and luxuriance, and 
glaucous green, or sometimes green, and not glaucous, as is the whole 
plant. eaves alternate, bi- or tri-pinnate, the footstalks long, slender, 
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