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bular corolla, with dark- coloured tips, the spur at the base giving it the ap- 

 pearance of being attached laterally to the pedicel. Nut usually about a 

 line in diameter, not quite globular, being somewhat compressed laterally. 



• Common in cultivated and waste places in Europe and central Asia, dis- 

 appearing at high northern latitudes, but carried out as a weed of cultivation 

 to many parts of the globe. Abundant in England and southern Scotland, 

 but decreases much in the north. FL all summer and autumn. It varies 

 much in the form of the leaf-segments, in the size and colour of the flower, 

 white or red, in the size and shape of the sepals, and in the precise shape of 

 tlie nuts ; and several distinct species are generally admitted, but they run 

 so much one into another, that there is every probability of their being mere 

 varieties. The most prominent British forms are — 



a. Rampant Fumitory [F. capreolata, Eng. Bot. t. 943). A large luxuri- 

 ant form, attaining a length of 2 or more feet; leaflets broad; flowers 4 or 5 

 lines long, white or pale-red, the sepals rather large, the nut nearly orbicu- 

 lar. About hedges and walls, much more common and more marked in 

 southern Europe than in Britain. 



b. Common Fumitory. Leaf-segments neither very broad nor very narrow; 

 flowers red, about 3 hnes long ; nuts very blunt, or even depressed at the top, 

 rather broader than long. Connected both with the preceding and the 

 following by numerous intermediates, some of which are considered as 

 epecies under the names of F. media, F. agraria, etc. 



c. Close-Lowered Fumitory (F. densijlora or F. mierantha, Eng. Bot. 

 Suppl. t. 2876). I.eaf-segments usually small ; flowers smaller and in closer 

 racemes than in the common variety, the sepals remarkably large in propor- 

 tion to the corolla. Not uncommon in southern Europe, and scattered here 

 and there over Britain and other parts of the area of the species. 



d. Small Fumitory {F. parviflora, VaiUantii, etc., Eng. Bot. t. 590, and 

 Suppl. t. 2877). Leaf-segments narrow ; flowers scarcely 2 lines, white, or 

 rarely red, sepals very small, sometimes quite minute. Very common in hot 

 countries ; rare, but occasionally met with in Britain. 



IL CORYDAL. CORYDALIS. 



One of the outer petals has a pouch or spur at the base as in Fumitory, 

 but the fruit is a narrow pod, opening in two valves and containing several 

 seeds, bearing near their hilum a little crest-hke appendage. 



The species are rather numerous, spread over Europe, Russian and cen- 

 tral Asia, and northern America. The two British ones belong to the sec- 

 tion Capnoides, in which the stems are branched and leafy, without tubers 

 to the root. The bulbous C. {C. solida, Eng. Bot. t. 1471), from Continen- 

 tal Europe, often met with in our flower-gardens, has occasionally remained 

 from cultivation in groves and shady places in some parts of England. It 

 is a small plant, with a tuberous rootstock, simple stems, and rather large 

 purplish flowers, belonging to the section Bulbocapnos. 



Stem short, erect, much branched. Flowers yellow 1- Yellow C. 



Stem long, slender, climbing. Flowers whitish 2, Climbing C, 



1. Yellow Corydal. Corydalislutea, DC, 



(Fumaria, Eng. Bot. t. 588.) 

 An erect or spreading plant 6 or 8 inches high, either annual or forming 

 a tufted stock of several years' duration. Leaves delicate and pale green, 



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