DIADELPHIA— OCTANDRIA. Polygala. 257 



F. major scandens, flore pallidiore. Rail Syn. 204. 



F. major, floribus dilute pui-pureis. Magnol. Monsp. \Q0. Vaill. 

 Par.r)6.t. 10./. 4. 



F. viticulis etcapreolis plantis vicinis adhserens. Bauh. Pin. 143. 



F. Phragmites. Dalech. Hist. 1292./. 



In cultivated fields, not common. 



Sparingly at Edmonton, and a few other places near London ; 

 more plentifully about Barnstaple, Devonshire, and elsewhere. 

 Curtis. About Battersea, in fields and garden grounds. Mr. 

 Sowerby. In Sussex. Mr.Borrer. Veryabundant about Liverpool. 



Annual. June — September. 



Most like F. officinalis, but larger in every part ; the leaves less 

 glaucous J their tendrils twisting round other plants, by which 

 the branching stem climbs to the height of 3 or 4 feet ; and the 

 Jlowers are on the whole paler, though the tip of each petal is 

 deep red • the pods are not abrupt, or inversely heart-shaped, 

 but more globose, with a slight depression at each side of the 

 place of the style, which is deciduous, like that of all the single- 

 seeded Fumarice. Dr. Withering's figure erroneously represents 

 tendrils distinct from the footstalks. 



Prof. DeCandoUe distinguishes our plant from what he esteems the 

 real F. capreolata of Linnaeus, of which, as he understands it, a 

 plate is given in his excellent Icones, t. 34, But in this plate all 

 the fruit-stalks are peculiarly straight and upright, which is the 

 character of his F. media. In our capreolata they become more 

 or less recurved as the pods ripen, which DeCandoUe gives as a 

 mark of his capreolata. The Linnaean herbarium here lends us 

 no assistance, Linnaeus having adopted his F. capreolata from 

 other authors, without possessing a specimen, if he ever saw one. 

 Our plant however is that of his pupil Ehrhart, and of Jacquin, 

 from each of whom I have specimens. The calyx-leaves in all 

 my specimens are nearly as entire as in DeCandolle's figure j 

 being much less toothed than in Curtis's. 

 The synonyms of the various Fumarice in old authors might afford 

 materials for an ample dissertation. 



DIADELPHIA OCTANDRIA. 



.351. POLYGALA. Milkwort. 



Linn. Gen. 364. Juss.90. H.Br. 752. DeCand. Prodr. v. \. 32] . 

 Tourn.t. 79. Lam. t. 598. Gtsrtiut.62. 



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