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FUMARIA CAVA. HOLLOW-ROOTED
.^^ FUMITORY.
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and Order.
DIADELPHIA HEXAND&IA.
Genetic Character.
I Cal. Cal diphyllus. Cor. ringens. Filamenta i membranacea fm-
,gula Antheris 3 .
Specific Character and Synonyms.
TTJMARIA cava, caule fimplici, brafteis longimdine florum
integris, radice cava.
FUMARIA lulfofa radice cava major. Batih. Pin. p. 1 43,
RADIX cava major. Park.. Parad. p. 2 75*
The hollow-rooted Fumitory differs from ihefolida, already
figured, and that conftantly, in a variety of particulars; its root
is always, as far as we have obferved, hollow, appearing fome-
times, as PARKIN SON informs us, _," like a fhell, every part
" of which when broken will grow ;" frequently acquiring a
very great fize ; the plant itfelf ufually grows to twice the
height of the folida, bearing foliage and flowers proportionably
large; its brafteae or floral leaves, which in. the folida affume
a kind of finger'd appearance from'the manner in which they
are divided, in this are entire or but {lightly indented; it
flowers alfo about three weeks earlier.
Of the Fumaria cava there are three principal varieties in
point of colour, viz. the white, the blum-coloured, and the
purple, which, though plentiful in our gardens formerly, are
now rarely met with; Mr. CHAPPELOW informs me, that he
' r>und them ail this fpring, in an old plantation at Tecldington,
vhere they produced the moft pleafmg effect.
It begins to flower in March and continues in bloom three
*T.eks or a. month, rare'y produces any feed, fo t'-at it is to
propagated on'y 1-y dividing its roots; it is a^-.uFdyher-
eous plar.t, a native of Germany, aria v ill p;.-, \v in almoft
' ibil provided it be planieu ir> a fliaUy fnuaion.
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