FUMARIA ( Spanish fumaria, from fumus, smoke; in allusion to the disagreeable smell of the plant, or to its peotical name, Smoke of the Earth). Fumitory. Including Discocpnos and Platycapnos. ORD. Fumariiaceae. A genus of perhaps a score species of annual (rarely perennial( herbs, usually branched, often climbing. Flowers small, in terminal or leaf-opposed racemes; petals four, erect, connving, the posterior gibbous or spurred at the base, the anterior flat, two inner narrow, cohering by their tips, winged or keeled at the back. Leaves much divided; segments very narrow. No less than four species of this genus are found in Britain, but that described below is the only one worth cultivation. Seeds may be sown in any ordinary soil, in spring. FUMARIA capreolata (tendrilled).* fl. whitish, tinged with dark purple; spur compressed, blunt, short, mitre-formed; racemes oblong. May to September. L. bipinnate; petioles somewhat tendrilled. h. 4ft. Europe (Britain), Asia. FUMARIA formosa (beautiful). A synonym of Dicentra formosa.