PAPAVERACE. ais} 
words of old John Ray, the naturalist, would be better received now by the votaries of 
fashion than they were in his own day, when he said, “ No better cosmetics than a 
strict temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of 
spirit. No true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.” 
SPECIES IV.—FUMARIA TENUISECTA.”* 
Puates LXXVII. LXXVIII. 
Racemes short, elongated in fruit. Sepals ovate-lanceolate or 
linear-lanceolate, acute, toothed, from one-sixth to one-tenth the 
length of the tube of the corolla, and not above half or one-third its 
breadth. Lower petal abruptly enlarged at the tip. Pedicels of the 
fruit ascending or ascending-patent, equal to or a little exceeding 
the bracts. Fruit distinctly rugose when dry, globular, slightly 
compressed, rounded, or a little pointed at the apex, with a very 
small apiculus, on each side of which there is an indistinct shal- 
low pit. Leaves twice or thrice pinnate, the ultimate leaflets 
wedge-shaped, very deeply cut , segments flat or slightly channelled, 
strap-shaped, linear or sub-filiform-linear. 
Sup-Srecres L—Fumaria Vaillantii. Loisel. 
Pirate LXXVII.F 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. III. Pap. Tab. I. Fig. 4452. 
Racemes rather lax in flower. Sepals lanceolate, about one-tenth 
the length of the tube of the corolla, and one-third of its breadth. 
Fruit pedicels longer than their bracts. Mature fruit rounded (not 
pointed) at the summit. Segments of the leaflets flat, very nar- 
rowly elliptical or strap-shaped. 
A weed in cultivated ground. Rare and local. About Saffron 
Walden in Essex, and in several places in the southern part of 
Cambridgeshire. I have myself collected it near Cuxton, Kent, 
* T cannot consider F. Vaillantii and parviflora as more than sub-species ; but 
Lamarck’s excellent description of F. parviflora, in Encycl. Méth. Vol. II. p. 567, 
leaves no doubt that the plant he intended by this name was the one now generally 
known as F. parviflora, as his description agrees well with this plant in the very par- 
ticulars in which it differs from F. Vaillantii. I have, therefore, not ventured to use 
parviflora as a name for the aggregate species, considering that name to belong exclu- 
sively to one of the sub-species. My F. tenuisecta includes the British sub-species 
F. parviflora (Lam.), Vaillantii (Lois.), and a few Continental forms distinguished by 
M. Jordan, such as F. glauca and F. laggeri—with which I am quite unacquainted. 
+ The Plate is E. B. S. 2877 unaltered, except by the removal of a sprig and 
magnified flower and fruit of F. parviflora. 
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