FUMARIA nobilis. 
Great-flowered Fumitory. 
a —— 
DIADELPHIA HEXANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. PAPAVERACER. Jussieu gen. 235. Div. II. Stamina defi- 
nita. 
FUMARIA. Supra vol. 1. fol. 50. 
Div. Corollis unicalcaratis. 
F. nobilis, caule simplici, racemo terminali, bracteis oblongis, acutis, flore 
brevioribus, foliis pinnatis, foliolis tripartito-laciniatis. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 
858. 
Fumaria nobilis. Linn. syst. veg. 639. Jacq. hort. vindob. 2. 53. t. 116. 
Hort. Kew. 3. 1. ed. 2. 4. 239. Andrews’s reposit. 614. 
1953. 
Radix, initio bulbosa et subtis cava, in florente planté, solida. Folia 
radicalia, plura, spithamea, bipinnata, glabra, ex glauco virentia; costa 
communi media pentagona et anticé sulcata; lateralibus subtrigonis, alternis ; 
JSoliolis subrotundis, obtusis, lobatis et incisis. Caules etiam egrediuntur 
plures, angulati, inanes, tribus pleriimque foliis ornati. Quartum summum 
folium, bractee instar, florem ex ald emittit, a spicd remotum. Bractec 
inferiores sunt magis lobata, et foliis proptered similiores; superiores sunt 
ovate et integre. Flores albi, limbo luteo cum faucis prominentis apice 
nigricante, odorem spirant ad Primulam veris accedentem, et eadem sunt 
magnitudine tn horto quam Fumania bulbosa, structurdque simili, sed labiis 
brevioribus magisque concavis, et calycis foliolis membranaceis albentibus et ex 
lanceolata figura in setam desinentibus. Facilits tamen, distinguitur spicd 
valde obtusa et depressd, caulibusque et petiolis angulatis. Jacq. loc. cit, 
Curtis's magaz. 
Native of Siberia. Introduced by Mr. John Groefer in 
1783. A hardy perennial plant. 
Root tuberous. Radical leaves 7-9, a span long, bipin- 
nate, smooth, glaucous green; midrib sulcate and angular; 
leaflets roundish, blunt, lobed and carved. Stems several, 
slanted, angular, fistular. Cauline leaves 4, sessile, com- 
pound. Raceme inclining one way, very obtuse. Bractes 
ovately lanceolate, entire. Flowers smelling something like 
those of the Cowslip, twice the size of those of Fumaria 
bulbosa, white, with a yellow limb and with the top of the 
tongue of the faux nearly black; lips neither notched, nor 
serrate. Calyx minute, toothed. 
The drawing was taken at Mr, Knight’s nursery, in the 
King’s Road, Fulham. 
