Corydalis.] fumariacE/E. 27 



the leaves. Pedicels not twice the length of the ripe seed-vessel, round, swollen 

 upwards, erecto-patent when in fruit and slightly decurved, each subtended by a 

 lanceolate whitish or purplish bractea about equal to or one-third shorter than the 

 fructiferous pedicel itself. Flowers variable in size, larger than in the next 

 species. Sepals broadly ovate, apiculate, irregularly toothed on their posterior 

 half, mostly entire towards the point, as wide as or wider than the sublinear 

 corolla, and about half as long, excluding the gibbous base of the latter. Corolla 

 white or pale pink with dark purple tips, the upper and lower petals with a 

 prominent keel, greenish at the apex. Fruit subglobose, a little longer than 

 broad, with a minute apiculus, faintly 2-edged (from the indehiscent commissure 

 of the valves). iSeerf yellowish, orbicular, smoothish, with' a rather sharp vertical 

 edge all round answering to the suture, and an indistinct or incomplete one at 

 right angles to the former, visible only at the base of the seeds, at the summit of 

 which is a double confluent depression on either side. 



I cannot discover more than three filaments in this plant, two above the style, 

 closely cohering, and one below it. 



3. F. officinalis, L. Common Fumitory. " Sepals ovato-lan- 

 ceolate acute sharply toothed, fruit globose very abrupt or obcor- 

 daie."— Br. Fl. p. 19. E. B. t. 589. 



In waste and cultivated ground, fields and gardens, almost everywhere. Fl- 

 through the summer. O- 



3. F. micrantha. Lag. Small-Jioivered Fumitory. " Sepals pel- 

 tate orbicular somewhat cordate at the base inc^o-dentate at the 

 margin concave at the back, about twice shorter than the corolla 

 and one and a half or twice broader, fruit globose subapiculate, 

 segments of the leaves narrow linear grooved." — Br. Fl. p. 19. 

 Ic. Plant, t. 363. E. B. Suppl. t. 2876. 



In cultivated ground. Fl. May — September. O . 



A single specimen found by Dr. Bell-Salter at Weeks' Field, near Ryde, 1843. 



II. Corydalis, DC. Corydalis. 



" Petals 4, one of them gibbous or spurred at the base. Ovary 

 many-ovuled. Pod 2-valved, compressed, many-seeded. Seeds 

 with a crest." — Br. Fl. 



1. C. claviculata, DC. Climbing Corydalis. " Stem much 

 branched climbing, leaves pinnate, pianse stalked ternate or 

 pedate, leaflets elliptical entire, petioles ending in tendrils, pedi- 

 cels very short scarcely so long as the minute bracteas, root 

 fibrous, style persistent." — Br. Fl. p. 20. Fumaria, L. : E. B. t. 

 103. 



In moist woods, thickets, hedges and damp shady pastures, but very local. Fl. 

 June, July. 0. 



E. Med. — In a fir-plantation in Bordwood copse. In several parts of Sandown 

 Level, and on the skirts of Lake common abundantly. Parsonage Lynch, New- 

 church. In a wood immediately below Queen Bower, sparingly. 



