CLASS XVII. ORDER I.) FUMARIA. 953 
often twisting themselves round other plants, leaflets wedge-shaped, cut 
into three or five lanceolate acute or obtuse segments. Inflorescence 
erect racemes opposite the leaves. lowers numerous, pale pink or 
rose colour, with much darker spots at the tips of the petals. Calyx 
of two small ovate lanceolate membranous sepals, finely toothed on 
each side, about one-third the length of the petals. Bracteas linear, 
shorter than the erect or slightly spreading fruit-bearing pedicles. 
Fruit broadly ovate, globose, the sides somewhat compressed, and the 
end truncated, and somewhat notched, mostly roughish, with elevated 
points. Seeds solitary, smooth. 
Habitat —Fields, road sides, and cultivated grounds; common. 
Annual; flowering during the summer months. 
This is also an extremely variable plant, and the characters most 
constant which distinguish it, are its calyx segments, and their 
relative proportion to the petals, and the form of the fruit. The 
racemes are mostly very long, bearing numerous flowers, arising 
almost from the base. 
The leaves of this plant have been used medicinally; they are 
somewhat succulent, almost without odour, but have a bitterish 
saline taste. They were either dried and made into an infusion, 
or the juice of the fresh leaves was administered. In cases of various 
disorders of the skin it was thought to be useful, but it is now almost 
entirely out of repute. 
8. F. parviflo'ra, Lam. (Fig. 1105.) Small-flowered Fumitory. 
Calyx sepals very minute toothed ; fruit globose, with a slight point ; 
bracteas as long or longer than the fruit-bearing pedicle ; leaves with 
narrow almost linear segments. 
English Botany, t. 590.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 255.—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4- vol. i. p. 266—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 19. 
8. leucantha. “Flowers white, tipped with dark purple; leaves 
glaucous.” 
“Am, MSS.—F. parviflora, De Cand.—F. leucantha, Vw."— 
Hooker, British Flora. 
Root small, tapering. Stem erect, branched, and spreading, green, 
or more or less glaucous. Leaves alternate, bi- or tri-pinnate, the 
footstalks stout at the base, slender upwards, leaflets all narrow, 
linear, equal, and somewhat channeled. Inflorescence erect racemes, 
opposite to the leaves. lowers numerous, pale pink or white, all 
tipped with dark purple spots. Calyx of two very small ovate acute . 
membranous sepals, finely toothed on each side. Sracteas pale, 
membranous, as long and mostly longer than the fruit-bearing 
pedicles. Fruit globose, roughish, with elevated points, and the apex 
pointed with the base of the style. Seeds solitary, smooth. 
Habitat—Fields, rare; % Woldham, near Rochester, and near 
Epsom, Hill side North of Carlton Hill, Edinburgh; 8. Brookham, 
Surrey, and the Hermitage, near Leith. ; 
Annual ; flowering from August to September. 
