VI. FUMARIACEiE 
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Fumaria parviflora, Lam . ; FI. Br. Ind. i. 128. Annual. Stems 
diffuse, 4-24 in., much branched. Leaves pale green, pinnately 
divided ; leaflets deeply lobed, segments very narrow, lobed or 
entire. Flowers pale pink or white, in. long, in numerous, 
short racemes ; bracts lanceolate. Outer petals dissimilar ; upper 
one broad, concave, produced at the base in a short rounded spur, 
less than ^ the length of the petal ; lower one flat, narrow. Inner 
petals narrow, clawed, keeled. Lower set of stamens spurred at 
the base, the spur projecting inside the petal-spur. Fruit a very 
small, globose, 1-seeded nutlet. 
Simla, in fields, common; May, June.— N. India, ascending to 6000 ft. — 
Temperate regions of the N. Hemisphere ; rare in Britain, but closely allied 
to the Common Fumitory ( F . officinalis). 
VII. CRUCIFERS 
Annual or perennial herbs. Stems usually erect ; scapose only 
in Eutrema. Leaves simple or compound ; radical stalked, spread- 
ing in a rosette ; stem-leaves alternate ; stipules none. Flowers 
almost always without bracts, in terminal racemes or corymbs, 
usually short and crowded when flowering commences, lengthening 
as it advances, and becoming much elongated in fruit. Sepals 4, 
free, the 2 lateral often larger than the others and dilated or 
saccate. Petals 4, free, entire, placed cross-wise, usually equal. 
Stamens 6, free, 2 short, opposite the lateral sepals, 4 longer 
in pairs, opposite the other two sepals ; anthers basifixed, 
2-celled ; two, four or six green, fleshy glands are placed near the 
base of the stamens. Ovary sessile, 2-celled ; ovules several or 
many in each cell (only one in Lepidium ) ; style short or none ; 
stigma capitate or 2-lobed. Pods long or short, stalked, divided 
into 2 cells by a membranous partition from which the 2 valves 
usually fair away at maturity leaving the seeds on its edges; in 
Baphanus the pod is indehiscent. Seeds small, attached in each 
cell alternately to its right and left edge ; if all lie along the centre 
of the cell they are said to be in one row, if along the sides of the 
cell in two rows. The radicle of the embryo is said to be accum- 
bent when placed against the edges of the cotyledons, if against 
the back of one of them it is incumbent ; if the cotyledons are 
folded over the radicle they are conduplicate : these characters are 
of much systematic value in Crucifer ce . — A very large Order rang- 
ing over all temperate and cold regions, but most abundant in the 
Old World. — The name Crucifer ce is from the Latin crux, crucis, 
a cross, and refers to the arrangement of the petals. 
The staminal glands usually secrete honey which collects about the base of 
the pistil or in the saccate sepals and serves to attract insects. 
