FUMARIACEAE. 



VOL. II. 



7. Capnoides crystallinum (Engelm.) Kuntze. 

 Vesicular Corydalis. Fig. 1995. 



Corydalis crystallina Engelm.; A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 62. 1867. 

 J Capnoides crystallinum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 14. 1891. 



Erect or ascending, glabrous, 8'-2o' high, branching. 

 Lower leaves slender-petioled, the upper sessile, all finely 

 dissected into oblong or cuneate segments; pedicels stout, 

 short, diverging; flowers spicate, 6"-8" long, bright yel- 

 low; spur 3"-4" long; crest large, dentate; capsules 9" 

 long, ascending or erect, densely covered with transparent 

 vesicles; seeds acute-margined, tuberculate-reticulated. 



Prairies, Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas. April-June. 



4 . FUMARIA [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 699. 1753. 



Diffuse or erect (sometimes climbing) herbs, with finely 

 dissected leaves, and small racemose flowers. Petals 4, 

 erect-connivent, the outer pair larger, i of them spurred, 

 the inner narrow, coherent at the apex, keeled or crested 

 on the back. Stamens 6, diadelphous, opposite the outer 



petals. Ovule i ; style slender, deciduous ; stigma entire or lobed. Fruit i-seeded, nearly 



globose, indehiscent. Seeds not crested. [Name from the Latin, smoke, from the smoke-like 



smell of some species.] 



About 40 species, all natives of the Old World, the 



following typical. 



i. Fumaria officinalis L. Fumitory. Hedge 

 Fumitory. Fig. 1996. 



Fumaria officinalis L. Sp. PI. 700. 1753. 



Glabrous, stems diffuse or ascending, freely 

 branching, 6'-3 long. Leaves petioled, finely dis- 

 sected into entire or lobed linear oblong or cuneate 

 segments; racemes axillary and terminal, i'-3' long, 

 narrow ; pedicels i"-2" long, axillary to small 

 bracts ; flowers purplish, 2"-$" long, crimson at the 

 summit ; sepals acute, toothed ; spur rounded, \" 

 long; nut i" in diameter, depressed-globose. 



In waste places and on ballast, occasionally about 

 towns and villages, Newfoundland to Florida and the 

 Gulf States, and locally in the interior. Bermuda. 

 Fugitive or adventive from Europe. Summer. Wax- 

 dolls. Earth-smoke. 



Fumaria parviflora Lam., found on ballast about the 

 seaports, may be distinguished by its still smaller paler 

 flowers (2"), very narrow sharp and channeled leaf- 

 segments, and its apiculate nut. 



Family 38. CRUCIFERAE B. Juss. Hort. Trian. 1759. 

 MUSTARD FAMILY. 



Herbs, rarely somewhat woody, with watery acrid sap, alternate leaves, and 

 racemose or corymbose flowers. Sepals 4, deciduous, or rarely persistent, the 

 2 outer narrow, the inner similar, or concave, or saccate at the base. Petals 4, 

 hypogynous, cruciate, nearly equal, generally clawed. Stamens 6, hypogynous, 

 tetradynamous, rarely fewer. Pistil i, compound, consisting of 2 united carpels, 

 the parietal placentae united by a dissepiment ; style generally persistent, sometimes 

 none ; stigma discoid or usually more or less 2-lobed. Fruit a silique or silicic, 

 generally 2-celled, rarely i -celled, in a few genera indehiscent or lomentaceous. 

 Seeds campylotropous, attached to both sides of the septum ; endosperm none ; 

 cotyledons incumbent, accumbent or conduplicate, or the embryo rarely straight. 



About 200 genera and 1800 species, of wide geographic distribution. Also known as BRAS- 



