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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
The feed, which is naturally fingle, and has its outer fldn loofe, in fome fpecies, has that membrane 
fwelled into a kind of capfule ; and in fome others there is no cup to the flowpr. The analogy of 
parts in general ihevv thefe however to be true fpecies of fumitory ; and all authors have perceived 
it : therefore it is proper to keep them under the fame generical name. 
DIVISION I. BRITISH SPECIES. 
I. Common Fumitory. 
Fumaria z'ulgmis. 
The root is long, (lender, and furniflied with 
many fibres. 
The ftalk is weak, of a pale green, fcarce up- 
right, divided into many branches, and a foot 
high. 
The leaves are large, and of a faint green : 
they arc divided into innumerable fmall parts, 
placed on a branched rib ; and they are of a flen- 
der fubftance. 
The flowers fland in fpikes at the tops of the 
ftalks and branches ; and they are of a mixed 
red, partly flefli-colour, and partly purple. 
The feed is large and brown. 
It is common in our corn-fields, and in all 
other cultivated ground. It flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Fumnria oficinarum et Diofco- 
r:dis. Others, Fumaria vulgaris. 
1. Great Ramping Fumitory. 
Fumaria major. 
The root is long, thick, white, and furnifiied 
with a few fl:raggling fibres of the fame colour. 
The flalks are weak, and of a pale green, 
branched; and, when they can fupport them- 
felves among buOies, two feet high. 
The leaves are large, and of a whidfli green : 
they are divided into numerous parts, or com- 
pofed of many fegments, as in the other \ but 
thcfe are broader. 
The flowers fland in long, loofe fpikes at the 
tops of the flralks, and on footflalks rifing from 
the bofoms of the leaves ; they are large, and 
of a pale red. 
The feeds are fmali and brown. 
DIVISION II. F O 
Hollow-rooted Fumitory. 
Fumaria radice cn-va. 
The root is large, roundifh, and hollow ; and 
it is furnifiied with abundance of fibre?. 
The fl:alk is weak, of a whitifii green, and 
about a foot high, but indifferently cretfl, and 
divided into many branches. 
The leaves are large, and compofcd of nume- 
rous oblong indented fegments: they arc fupported 
on feparate footflalks ; and they are of a pale 
bluifii green. 
It is common in hedges at the fides of plowed 
lands, and fiowers in Augufl:. 
Ray calls it Fumaria major fcandens fiore ■palli- 
dicre. 
3. Broad-leaved climbing Fumitory. 
Fumaria lalifolia claviciilala. 
This is a fpecies fo extremely different from 
the other in its form, that Mr. Ray has placed it 
in another clafs ; but it is properly and truly a 
kind of fumitory. 
The root is fmall, divided into feveral parts, 
and furnifhed with numerous fibres. 
The flalk is round, weak, of a pale green, and 
very much branched : it is a foot high, but very 
weak, and unable to fupport itfclf upright, ex- 
cept by climbing; for which purpofc Nature has 
given it many tendrils at the ends of the branches. 
The leaves are broad and fiiarp-pointcd : they 
grow in fmall cluflers, and their colour is a bluifh 
green. 
The flowers ftand three or four together in little 
heads on footftalks rifing from the bofoms of the 
leaves : they are fmall and white, with a faint 
tinge of purple. 
The feeds are fmal! and brown. 
It is common under hedges in our northern 
counties, but it is more fcarce elfewhere. It 
flowers in Augufl;. 
C. Bauhine calls it Fumaria claviculis donaia. 
Others, Fumaria alba lalifolia davicuhta. 
The common fumitory is good agalnfl: fcorbutick 
diforders. The juice may be taken in dofes of 
four fpoonfuls-,. and it will operate gently by 
fl:ool at firfl:, but only as a deobflruent and fweet- 
cner of the blood afterwards. Some fmoak the 
dried leaves in the manner of tobacco for difor- 
ders of the head, with fuccefs. 
REIGN SPECIES. 
The fiowers fland at the tops of the flralks in 
fpikes, and they are of a pale red. 
It is a native of the warmer parts of Europe, 
and flowers in May. 
C. Bauhine calls it Fumaria hulbofa. Otiicrs, 
Fumaria radice cava, and Radix cava 7najor fton 
■purpureo. 
Its virtues are the fame with thofe of the co-m- 
mon fumitory and. Where it grows wild, it is ufed 
to the lame purpofe. 
Tjhe EiVZ) 0/ //v T W E N T I E T II CLASS. 
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