DIADELPHIA HEXANDRIA. 379 



C L A S S I S XVIL 



PIADELPHIA. 



HEXANDRIA. 



FUMARIA. Gen, pL 849. 



/ Cal, diphyllus. Cor^ ringens. Filament a 2, mem- 

 branacea, fingula antkeris 3. 

 0fficinajs i. FUMARIA pericarpiis monofpcrmls racemofis, 

 caule difFufo. Sp, pL 984. (Ger, em. 1088. /. i. 

 Rivin. tetrap, irreg, t, L Miller, icpl. 136./. 2. 

 Blackwell t. 2^1) 

 Common, or officinal Fumitory, Anglis, 

 In corn fields and gardens frequent. Q . V. VI. 



The flalks are eight or nine inches high, numeroii?, 

 weak, angular, fucculent, intricately branched, 

 and arife from a fibrous root : the leaves are 

 glaucous, and doubly pinnated, the pinnuU d\- 

 vided into three lobes, which are bifid and trifid : 

 the flowers are purple, and grow in thick fpikes : 

 the calyx is dentated : the end of the aU^ and 

 and fides of the vexillum are of a dark purple, 

 but the middle of the vexillum in the fore part 

 is greeniih : at the bafe is a thick nectariferous 

 fcale, ending in a blunt curved fpur : the peri- 

 carpium is globular. 



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