DIADELPH1A OCTANDRIA 401 



siliculose, obovoid, or subglobose, not pointed with the style, inlchis- 

 cent, 1 -seeded. 



Herbaceous: caulescent; leaves mostly alternate, decompound; flowers race - 

 hi >sc, terminal, or opposite the leaves. Nat. Ord. 10. Lindl. Fumariaceje. 

 1. F. officinalis, L. Stem sub-erect; leaves superdecompound, 

 incised, segments sub-linear ; racemes rather loose ; pedicels of the 

 fruit erect, twice as long as the bracts ; capsule subglobose, retusc. 

 Beck, Hot. p. 23. 



Officinal Fumabia. Vulgo— Common Fumitory. 

 Gallice — La Fumeterre. Germ. — Der Erdrauch. Hisp. — Palomilla. 



Plant smooth, glaucous. Root annual. Stem 9 to 18 inches high, branched, 

 somewhat strolling. Leaves petiolatc, bipinnately branching ; divisions distant, 

 petiolato; subdivisions cuneate, pinnatifidly incised ; segments sublinear, short. 

 Racemes 1 to 2 or 3 inches lone; pedicels 2 or 3 lines long, thick, clavate; bracts 

 small, oblong, acuminate. Sepals lance-ovatc, acumiuate, denticulate, produced 

 and dentate at base. Corolla slender, pale violet purple with a leaden tinge, deep- 

 er purple at summit, with green keels. Style deciduous. Capsule roundish-ob- 

 evoid, retuse, slightly compressed, striate, smooth. Seed 1, subreniform-gloU'Sn. 



JJ>.b. Gardens, and cultivated lots: frequent. Fl. May— Aug. Fr. July— Sept. 



Obs. Tliis is naturalized to some extent, about our gardens, &c. There are ne 

 native species, as the genus is now restricted, in the U. States. 



Order 3. Octamlria. 



333. POLYGALA. L. jXutt. Gen. 5S9. 

 [Gr. Poly, much, «fc Gala, milk ; from its supposed influence in producing milk.] 



Sepals 5, irregular, — the 3 outer ones smaller, bract-like, the 2 inner 

 ones larger, wing-like, petaloid. Petals 3 to 5, somewhat cohering, 

 united with the stamens, the lower one keel-form. Capsule compres- 

 sed, elliptic, obovate, or obcordate. Seeds pubescent, with arillus-like 

 processes from the hilum. 



Herbaceous, or/rutesccnt : leaves mostly alternate and simple, without stipules ; 

 towers in terminal racemes, often spikefurm, or capitate ; pedicels bracteatc. Nat 

 Ord. 12 ( J. LindL Pojlygaleaj. 



1. P. purpurea, jYutt. Leaves alternate, oblong-linear ; flowers im- 

 bricated in ovoid-oblong heads ; wings of the calyx ovate, twice as long 

 as the capsule. Beck, Bot. p. 44. Ico*, Bart. Am. 2. tab. 47. Not 

 of JHt. nor LindL 



P. sanguinea. Mx. Am. 2. >. 52. Pere. Syn. 2. p. 275. Muhl. 

 Catal.p.63. Pursh, Jm. 2. p. 465. Bigel ? Boat. p. 264. Not of 

 Linn. 



Purple Poltoala. 



Rool f annual. Stem erect, 6 to 9 or 12 inches high, smooth, angular and slightly 

 winged, somewhat corymbosely branched above, the smaller specimens one* 

 simple. Leaves half an inch to an inch long, and 1 to 2 lines wide, m Wily acute, 

 eubsess.le. Heads offers half an inch to near an inch long, and 1 third to if 



to off and JS"^ • f ** ta » " "M**, obtuse, the lower flowers (J 

 «f off and leaving t b e angular rachis squarrose with the persistent bracts ; pediuu 



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