Fumaria.~\ 
V. FUMARIACEA2. 
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Ord. V. FUMARIACEzE Be Cand. 
Sepals 2, deciduous or obsolete. Petals 4, more or less united, 
one or two of them gibbous or spurred at the base. Stamens 6, 
in two bundles. Ovary 1, with two opposite parietal placentas. 
Style filiform. Stigma lobed. Fruit dry, indehiscent, with one or 
two seeds ; or a pod with two valves and many seeds. Seeds 
glossy, with a fleshy albumen and embryo at its base. — Herbs 
of temperate climates, with brittle stems and watery juice, slightly 
bitter and diaphoretic. — Hypecoiim has four distinct stamens and 
a different kind of corolla , but is now usually referred here. 
1. Fumaria. Fruit roundish, 1 -seeded. Seeds not crested. 
2. Cory dalis. Fruit elongated, many-seeded. Seeds with a crest. 
1. Fumabia Linn. Fumitory. 
Pet. 4, one of them gibbous or spurred at the base. Ovary , 
4-ovuled. Fruit indehiscent, ] -seeded, the style deciduous. 
Seeds without a crest. — Named from fumus, smoke, on account 
it is said of the smell. 
1. F. capreoldtaL. (rampant F.) ; sepals broadly oval scarcely 
acute toothed at the base entire above as broad as the tube of 
the corolla and often half its length, fruit globose obtuse, seg- 
ments of leaves flat. E. B. t. 943. 
Corn-fields, gardens, hedges, and road-sides, frequent. ©. 5 — 9. 
— A very variable plant, best distinguished by its large petals and 
calycine leaves. Stems generally climbing, sometimes only diffuse. 
Leaves bipinnate ; segments usually very broad, rarely cuneate oblong, 
but never linear or grooved. In the south of Europe the fructiferous 
pedicels are usually remarkably recurved, in Germany and the south of 
England they are only arched backwards, and in Wales and Scotland 
often straight and patent : this last form is the F. agraria of British 
collectors, but not apparently the true species of that name. The 
fruit is often in some soils more or less tuberculated, but usually 
quite even. Lower petal linear or gradually dilated from the middle 
to the point, not merely dilated near the point as in the next species. 
2. F. officinalis L. ( common F.) ; sepals ovato-lanceolate acute 
sharply toothed narrower than the tube of the corolla, fruit 
globose very abrupt or obeordate. — a. erect, very glaucous, 
segments of leaves narrow usually grooved. F. officinalis, E. 
B. t. 589. — 13. diffuse or climbing, green, segments of leaves flat 
broad. 
a. Dry fields and road-sides, common. — 0. also frequent in 
highly cultivated fields and gardens. Q. FI. through the summer. 
3. F. Vaillantii Loisl. ( Vaillant's F.) ; sepals very minute, 
fruit obovate-globose slightly pointed, pedicel twice as long as 
the bract, segments of leaves narrow flat glaucous. E. B. S. 
t. 2877. 
