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FUMARIA confusa.
Jordan’s Fumitory.
D IAD E L PH IA Hexandria.
Gen. Char. Calyx of 2 sepals. Petals 4, the upper
one spurred at the base. Stamens in two bundles
of 3 each. Fruit indehiscent, 1-seeded.
Spec. Char. Sepals ovate, toothed, about half as long
as the corolla (excluding the spur) and as broad
as the tube. Fruit globose-compressed, rounded
at the top, becoming rugulose, its fleshy base
about as broad as the fruit. Fruit-stalks patent,
twice as long as the bracts.
Syn. F. confusa. Jord.Cat.Dij. 1848.18 (Linncea, 1850.
469). Lloyd, FI. Quest Fr. 24. Bab. in Linn. Soc.
Journ. v. 4. 165 ; Man. Br. Bot. ed. 5. 18. Syme,
E. Bot. ed. 3. pi. lxxiii.
F. Bastardi. Bor. in Duchart. Rev. Bot. (1847) v. 2.
359 (in part); FI. Cent. Fr. ed. 3. v. 2. 34. Brebis.
FI. Norm. ed. 3. 18.
F. agraria. Mitt, in Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 7. 556.
Bab. in Bot. Gaz. v. 1. 62 (not Lagasca).
F. capreolata, y. media. Bab. Man. ed. 4. 17.
F. media, j3. confusa. Hamm. Mon. Fum. 28. t. 3
(Act. Ups. ser. 3. v. 1. pt. 1).
T H I S plant and its allies were formerly included under the
name of F. capreolata (Linn.), but are very carefully distinguished
by several accurate continental botanists. Our F.
capreolata (t. 943) is apparently a bad figure of the F, Borcei
(Jord.), of which the plate in Curtis’s Flora Londinensis (v. 2.
145, or fasc. 6. 47) is a beautiful representation. Mr. Mitten
detected this plant in the herbarium of our lamented friend,