FUMARIA capreolata.
Ramping Fumitory.
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DIA DEL PHTA Hexaniria.
G en. Char. Cal. a-leaved. Cor. ringent. Filaments
a, membranaceous, each bearing 3 anthers.
Spec. Char. Spike lax. Pods fingle-feeded, globofe.
Stem climbing by means of the twilled foot-
ftalks. Leaflets wedge-fhaped, lobed.
Syn. Fumaria capreolata. Linn. Sp. P i. 985. Sm.
F I Brit. 751. With. 6a 1. t. 30. Hull. 158.
Sibth. a 17. Curt. Lond. fafc. 6. t. 47. Dick/.
H. Sice. fafc. 9. 9.
F. officinalis /3 . Hudf. 309. Relh. 16"].
F. major fcandens, flore pallidiore. Raii Syn. 304.
IV T r . CURTIS has, in our opinion, fufficiently proved this
to be a diftindt fpecies, and not a variety of the Common
Fumitory. The much greater fize of the whole herb ; its lefs
glaucous h u e ; the tvvifting foot-ftalks, which, like tendrils,
fupport it upon other plants, and enable it to rife to 3 or 4 feet
in height; the paler, lefs gaping flower, with a more proje&ing
fpur; the larger and more elegant calyx-leaves, all ferve to
diftinguifh i t ; nor does the feed-veflel, fo important in the
fpecific diftindtions of Fumariee, entirely fail us in this inftance,
for the pods are here more globofe than in the officinalis, and
by no means obcordate, though marked with a flight depref-
flon on each fide of the infertion of the ftyle.
F. capreolata is annual, flowering from June to September.
It occurs here and there in fields and garden grounds, as about
Balterfea; but Mr. Sowerby and Mr. Curtis have remarked
it to be more abundant, and feemingly at home, in Cornwall
and Devonfliire. Mr. W. Borrer has communicated it to us
from Suflcx.
The delineator of Dr. Withering’s plate has erroneoufly re-
prefented tendrils diftind from the footftalks.