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FUMARIA aurea. 
Golden american Fumitory. 
DIADELPHIA HEXANDRIA. 
FUMARLA. . Supré- fol. 50. 
Div. Corollis unicalcuratis. 
F. aurea, caule ramoso _diffuso, foliis bipinnatis, foliolis partitis lineari- 
lanceolatis utringue acutis, racemis secundis, bracteis lato-lanceolatis 
subdenticulatis, siliquis teretibus turgidis (torosis) pedunculo duplo lon- 
 gioribus. (Pursh ubi infra, sub Corydali.) , 
Corydalis aurea. Willd. enum. 740. Pursh amer. sept. 2. 463. 
Annua. Caulis diffuse ramosus. Folia pinnata, foliolis pinnatifidis, lobis 
lineari-lanceolatis acutis, interdim incisis. Racemus pluriflorus, simples. 
Bractewe lanceolate, supra denticulate, pedicellum equantes v. longiores. 
Cor. flava, semuncid longior : calcar oblongum, obtusum, rectum, pedicellum 
@quans, dimidio corolla longius: petalum infimum infra medium gibbosum, 
lamind acuta. : ; >" 
We learn from Mr. Pursh, that the native abode of 
this plant extends from Pensylvania to Virginia, and 
that shady rocks are the situations it principally affects. 
The first mention we find of the species is in Will- 
denow’s late enumeration of the plants cultivated in the 
Berlin garden. It has not found a place in the last edition 
of the Hortus Kewensis. From the common Fumarra 
lutea it differs in being biennial, not perennial; in having a 
corolla with pointed petals, not blunt and rounded; a spur 
more than half the length of the flower, straight and equal to 
the pedicle, not deflex, and several times shorter than both 
pedicle and corolla; by a seed-vessel which is torose and 
twice as long as the pedicle, not linear, even, and shorter 
than the pedicle. The corolla is of a golden yellow, more 
than half an inch long, and has a protuberance below the 
middle of the undermost petal. In reality, were it not for 
the colour of the flower, dutea would not have presented 
itself as the point of comparison, but sempervirens, to which 
it is far nearer akin. : 
We have not learned the date of its introduction, but 
suspect that it has found its way here from the parisian 
gardens, where it had probably travelled from that of Ber- 
lin, in which it is known to have been raised by Willdenow 
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