30 FUMARlACEjE 



i. Corydalis. — Fruit a compressed, 2-valved, many-seeded 

 capsule. 



2. FumAria. — Fruits, globose, indehiscent, i-seeded achene. 



i. Corydalis (Corydalis). — Herbs with much-divided glabrous 

 leaves and bracteate racemes of small monosymmetric flowers; 

 petals connivent ; the upper one spurred ; capsule many-seededl 



fumAria officinalis (Common Fumitory). 



(The Greek name Corydalis was employed for this or some allied 

 plant by Galen.) 



i. C. claviculdta (Climbing Corydalis). — Stem slender, climb- 

 ing ; leaves glaucous, pinnate, ending in branched tendrils ; 

 JloT.vers yellowish-white ; spur very short. A clambering plant, 

 with delicate green stems and foliage, rising to the height of 

 several feet, by the help of the bushes among which it grows. 

 The only indigenous species.— Fl. June— August. Annual. 



* Two other species are naturalised in Britain : C. bulbbsa, a 

 perennial with a tuberous rhizome, unbranched aerial stem, no 

 tendrils and purple flowers, and liitea, not uncommon on old 



