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walls, with man)' short stems, no tendrils, and bright yellow 

 flowers. 



2. FuMARiA (Fumitory). — Annual herbs differing little from 

 Corydalis except in having only two ovules in the ovary, only one 

 of which forms a seed in the indehisi ent fruit. (Name from the 

 Latin /wwz/j- ten-ce, smoke of the earth, these smoke-like glaucous 

 weeds being supposed to spring without seed from the \apours of 

 the ground.) 



1. F. capreoldta (Ramping Fumitory). — Generally climbing by 

 means of its twisted leaf-stalks, i — 2 feet high ; flotvers pale 

 pink or cream-coloured, tipped with crirnson in short, few- 

 flowered racemes ; sepals as broad as the corolla and half as 

 long ; fruit globose, slightly compressed, smooth ; fruit-stalks 

 recurved. — Borders of fields : common. — Fl. Afay — September. 

 Annual. 



Allied species are F. pii?-piirea, with smaller flowers and 

 slightly recurved frLiit-stalks ; F. occidentdliSi the largest British 

 species, known only from '\^'cst Cornwall ;' F. Bas/drdi, with 

 large flowers and erect fruit-stalks ; and F. murdlis, with smaller 

 flowers and fruit, the latter obovate. 



2. F. officinalis (Common Fumitory). — Erect, smaller than F. 

 capreoldta ; leaves more divided ; flowe/'s smaller, rose-coloured, 

 tipped with crimson, in long, many-flowered racemes ; sepals 

 narrower than the corolla; f/'ia't obovate, notched. — Fl. May — 

 September. Annual. 



* F. densiflora, a weaker plant with short racemes, elongating 

 after flowering, and roundish sepals, broader than the corolla ; 

 F. parviflbra, with small pale flowers in dfense racemes, with 

 minute sepals ; and F. Vailldntii, with lax racemes, are less 

 common species. 



Ord. VI. CRUcfFER.c. — The Caebage Family 



A very large, ^■ery natural, and very important Order, well 

 described by the name Criiciperce, or cross-bearing, there being 

 invariably 4 petals, which are placed crosswise. They are mostly 

 herbs with a watery juice and pungent taste. The leaves are 

 radical and cauline, the former in a rosette ;.the latter scattered 

 and exstipulate. The _;7i3j{'«« are in an ebracteate raceme. There 

 are 4 sepals, the two lateral ones often pouched at the base ; 

 4 petals, placed diagonally ; and 6 stamens, in 2 whorls, the two 

 outer, opposite the lateral (pouched) sepals,, shorter, the 4 inner 

 longer, whence LinnKus classed all the members of this Order in 

 his class Tetradyndmia (see p. xxixj. There are usually 4 honey- 



