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FUMARIEJE.ORYDALIS.Petals 4, one only spurred. Pod 2-valved, compressed, manyseeded.47. C. tuberosa DC. fi. fr. iv. 637. i.prodr. 127. Fumariacava, Mill. diet. vii. Bot. Mag.t. 232. and t. 2340.Hedges in the south of Europe.Stem simple, not scaly. Leaves 2, biternate, with cuneate, slashed,multifid segments. Bracts ovate entire. Root hollow.48. C. fabacea Pers. synops. ii. 269. DC. prodr.i- ,127.Fumaria fabacea Retz. prodr. ed. 2. No. 859. Fl. Dan.t. 1394 Shady mountainous places in Sweden, Denmark, andmany other parts of the Continent of Europe.Stem nearly simple, erect, bearing one scale below the lowest leaf.Leaves 3-4, stalked, biternate, with oblong bluntish segments. Bractsovate, acute, longer than the pedicel. Root solid. The root of boththese is very bitter, and rather acrid. It is the radix aristolochiae of thecontinental shops, and is principally employed as an external applicationto indolent tumours.18

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