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originated in the Paris Botanical Garden from seed of 

 Chelidonium ma jus hiciuiat urn and to which de Candolle 

 afterwards gave the name C. laciniatum fumarice folium. 42 

 A second plant in onr garden represents an extreme 

 in another direction and is intermediate between the 



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species and the variety laciniatum. It probably is iden- 

 tical with the var. crenatum.** Besides these three varie- 

 ties I believe to be able to distinguish two other forms, 

 constant from seed. It is possible that all of them origi- 

 nated through mutation of C. in a jus laciniatum, as did 

 the variety fumaria folium. It is equally possible that 

 laciniate forms of Chelidonium ma jus have originated 



