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NAT. ORDER. FUMARIACE^. 
any alteration of position on the part of either organ, the mere con- 
traction of the valves of the anthers is sufficient to shed the polen 
upon that spot where it is required to perform the office of secunda- 
tion. Their principal range is in the temperate latitudes of the 
northern hemisphere, where they inhabit thickets and waste places. 
Famaria cucullaria. Naked-stalked Fumitory. This plant is an 
annual ; the stem upright, about a foot and a half high, round, and 
very smooth, sending out several branches at the top ; the leaves 
smooth, branching, pale, divided like the common sort, but the leaf- 
lets larger and more obtuse ; the flowers hang in loose panicles from 
the sides of the stem and at the extremity of the branches, of a pur- 
ple color, with yellow chops or lips ; the pods are tapering, narrow, 
an inch and a half long, and contains many small, black shining 
seeds. It flowers during the siimmer, and is a native of N. America. 
Famaria lutea. Yellow Fumitory. In this species the root 
strikes deep into the ground; the stems are many, succulent, diffused 
and six inches in height; the leaves on long, branching petioles, 
composed of many irregular leaflets, trifid at the top; peduncles 
axillary, naked, longer than the leaves, supporting eight or nine 
flowers of a bright yellow color, and hang in a loose spike ; the 
leaves continue green all the year, and the flowers in succession from 
April to October. It is supposed to be a native of Barbary. 
Famaria capnoides. White-flowered Fumitory. This is an 
annual ; the stem four cornered at the base ; the leaves superde- 
compound, the terminating leaflets larger, and semitrifid ; the middle 
segment lobed ; the petioles three cornered ; the racemes naked ; the 
pedicles about one-half the length of the corolla, and blackish at the 
tip. There is a succession of the flowers from May to October. It 
is a native of the south of Europe. 
Fumaria. officinalis. Officinal Fumitory. In this species the 
pods are globose, retuse ; fructiferous pedicles erect, double the 
length of the bracteas ; racemes rather loose ; stem diffuse ; leaves 
supra-decompound ; lobes linear. This is an annual plants native 
