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DIADELPHIA HEXANDRIA, 



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350. FUMARIA. Fumitory. 



Linn. Gen. 362. Juss. 237. Fl. Br. 748. DeCand. Syst. u. 2. 13 1 . 



Tourn.t.237. Lam. t. 597. Gcsrtn.t. Wo. 

 Corydalis. DeCand. Syst. v. 2. 113. 

 Capnoides. Gcertn. t. 1 15. 



Nat. Ord. Corydales. Linn. 24. Papaveracece. Juss. 62. 

 FiimariacecE. DeCand. Syst. 10. 



CaZ. inferior, of 2 opposite, erect, acute, small, membra- 

 nous, deciduous leaves. Cor. oblong, tubular, ringent, 

 with a prominent palate, closing the mouth : -pet. 4, more 

 or less combined ; upper lip flat, obtuse, notched, re- 

 flexed ; its base prominent, obtuse, constituting the nec- 

 tary ; lower lip like the upper, sometimes with a similar 

 prominent nectary, sometimes only keeled, at the base ; 

 2 interior petals alternate with the 2 lips, linear- oblong, 

 slightly connected by their callous tips. Filam. 2, awl- 

 shaped, flat, shorter than the corolla, 1 within each lip. 

 Aiith. roundish, 3 terminating each.filament. Ger7u. su- 

 perior, roundish or oblong, compressed, pointed. Style 

 terminal, short. Stigma compressed, of 2 flat lobes. 

 Pod roundish or oblong, of 1 cell, with 1 or many po- 

 lished, crested seeds. 



M. DeCandoUe remarks that each prominence, at the base 

 of the corolla, contains a nectariferous gland ; and that 

 each of the lateral anthers has but one cell, there being 

 therefore only 8 cells, or, properly speaking, 4 anthers in 

 all. But it is easier to understand them as 2 double- 

 celled, and 4 single-celled, anthers. 



The plants are herbaceous, smooth, brittle, with annual or 

 perennial roots, in the latter case sometimes tuberous. 

 Stems simple or branched, mostly angular. Leaves stalk- 

 ed, variously compound. Fl. clustered, with partial 

 bracteas. Cor. purple, red, yellow, or white, often partly 

 green. Seed-vessels very various, insomuch that many- 

 botanists, in former times as well as in our days, have 

 subdivided the genus by its fruit, and the Linnaean Fu- 

 maria makes a whole natural order of M. DeCandolle. 

 Linnaeus considered this as a genus in which one part of 

 the fructification wanders, or is irregidar, of which there 

 doubtless are many instances ; but the present is an ex- 



