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Ord. V. FUMARIACE^ De Cand. 



Sepals 2, deciduous. Petals 4, more or less united, one or 

 two of them gibbous or spurred at the base. Stamens 6, in two 

 bundles. Ovary 1, with two opposite ^aviet^l ])lacentas. Style 

 filiform. Stigma lobed. Fruit dry, indehiscent, with one or 

 two seeds; or a pod with two valves and many seeds. Seedi$ 



^lafe glossy, with a fleshy albumen and embryo at the base. 



Herbs 



Ovary 4- 

 Seeds 



bitter and diaphoretic. — Hypecoum has four distinct stamens 

 and a different kind of corolla^ but is now usually referred here. 



1. FuaiARiA. Fruit roundish, 1-seeded. Seeds not crested. 



2. CoRYDALis. Fruit elongated, many-seeded. Seeds with a crest. 



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1. FuM ARIA Zz?2K. Fumitory. 



Pet, 4, one of them gibbous or spurred at the base, 

 ovuled. i^rwzY indehiscent, 1 -seeded, the style deciduous, 

 without a crest. — learned from fumus^ smohe^ on account, it is 

 said, of the smell. 



1. F. capreoldta L. (rampant F.') ; sepals broadly oval scarcely 

 acute toothed at the base entire above as broad as the tube of 

 the corolla and often half its length, fruit globose obtuse, seg- 

 ments of leaves flat. -B. B. t. 943. 



' Corn-fields, gardens, hedges, and road-sides, frequent. 0. 5 — 9. 

 A very variable plant, best distinguished by its large petals and 

 call/cine leaves. Stems generally climbing, sometimes only diffuse. 

 Leaves bipinnate; segments usually very broad, rarely cuneate oblong, 

 but never linear or grooved. In the south of Europe the fructiferous 

 pedicels are usually remarkably recurved, in Germany and the south of 

 England they are only arched backwards, and in Wales and Scotland 

 often straight and patent : this last form is the F. agraria of British 

 collectors, but not apparently the true species of that name. The 

 fruit is often in some soils more or less tuberculated, but usually 

 quite even. Lower petal linear or gradually dilated from the middle 

 to the point, not merely dilated near the point as in the next species. 



2. F . officinalis Jj . (common F.); sepals ovato-lanceolate acute 

 sharply toothed narrower than the tube of the corolla, fruit 

 globose very abrupt or obcordate. — a. erec't, very glaucous, 

 segments of leaves narrow usually grooved. F. officinalis, E. B. 

 t. 589.-/3. diffuse or climbing, green, segments of leaves fiat 

 broad, 



a. In dry fields and road-sides, common. — j8. also frequent in 

 highly cultivated fields and gardens. 0. Fl through the summer. 



3. F. Vaillantii Loisl. (VaillanC s F .) ; sepals very minute, fruit 

 obovate-globose slightly pointed, pedicel twice as long as the 

 bract, segments of leaves narrow flat glaucous. E. B. S. t. 2877. 



