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F U M A R I A claviculata.
Climbing Fumitory.
JD I A D E L P H I A Hexandria.
G e n . C h a r . Cal. two-leaved. Cor. gaping. Filaments
two, membranous, with three anthers on each.
S p e c . C h a r . Pods linear. Leaf-ftalks ending in a
tendril.
S y n . Fumaria claviculata. Finn. Sp. PI. 985. HudJ.
FI. An. 309. With. Bot. Arr. 753.
F . alba latifolia. Rati Syn. 335.
T P h IS delicate plant is by no means frequent in England,
though almoft peculiar to our ifland.—It loves a fandy or
gravelly foil in.moift, fhady, fomewhat mountainous fituations.
This fpecimen was gathered from a hedge feparating a wood
and a meadow behind the Eagle Inn at Snarefbrook, near
Woodford, Effex, where I have known it thefe five years. Jajnes
Sower by.
The root is annual. Herb weak and fucculent in all its parts,
and fo tender in habit that no good fpecimens can be obtained
except they are inftantly after gathering fpread in a book, and
fo'left till they are dry. The Item is flattened on one fide.
Leaves glaucous, paler beneath, pinnate, then pedate, the leaf-,
lets oval, lharp-pointed and entire ; their common footftalk
ending in an alternately compound tendril, which takes fall
hold of the neighbouring plants ; another obftacle to getting
good fpecimens, The pale greenifh white flowers appear in
June, followed by more till the end of July. The pods, which
are very different in different fpecies of Fumaria, in this are
linear, or rather oblong, pointed apd fmooth, containing generally
three feeds,