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Definition of Genus Fumaria

1. Noun. Annual herbs whose flowers have only one petal spurred at the base.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Fumaria

Literary usage of Genus Fumaria

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Annuals. by Loudon (Jane) (1842)
"This genus has been divided from the genus Fumaria (the common Fumitory), on account of its capsule opening when ripe, into two valves, and containing many ..."

2. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1822)
"DE CANDOLLE, in the second volume of his Systeme^ has erected the genus FUMARIA, as established by LINN^US, to the dignity of a natural order, ..."

3. Annual Report and Proceedings of the Botanical Society by Botanical Society of Edinburgh (1841)
"... but to give specific characters of the plants having a single-seeded, more or less globose fruit, and which constitute the restricted genus Fumaria. ..."

4. The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Perennials by Loudon (Jane) (1843)
"The species included in this order are all perennial plants, which were formerly included in the genus Fumaria, and afterwards in that of Corydalis. ..."

5. Memoir and Correspondence of the Late Sir James Edward Smith by James Edward Smith (1832)
"... which is but in a very few material instances, such as his numerous subdivision of the genus Fumaria, and his distribution of the compound flowers, ..."

6. The Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner (1884)
"genus Fumaria. (Fumitory). F. officinalis (Common Fumitory). Medical properties: Bitter, tonic, alterative, diuretic. laxative. Order Cruciferae. ..."

7. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by W. (William) Baxter by W. (William) Baxter (1837)
"The genus Fumaria, with which this has, till lately, been unitedi has an indehiscent, 1-seeded capsule. Three species British. ..."

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