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n. - Erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa: bleeding heart.

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  • Fumariaceae, nor Campanula were observed, Silene fimbriata one species.
  • A high proportion of alpine and sub-alpine herbs in Fumariaceae, Primulaceae, Saxifragaceae, and Scrophulariaceae are endemic and several are endangered.
  • When the plant was young I concluded certainly that the tendrils were axial, or modified branches, which Mohl says is the case with some Fumariaceae.
  • The Fumariaceae offer a good instance of this, and Treviranus threw this order in my teeth; but in Corydalis Hildebrand shows how utterly false the idea of...
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