50 FUMITORY FAMILY. 



spoon-shaped tips, which enclose the anthers of the 6 stamens in 

 two sets alouir with the stigma : the middle anther of each set is 

 2-celled, the lateral ours 1 -relied. Delicate or tender and very 

 smooth herbs with colorless and inert juice, and much dissected 

 or compound leaves 



* Corolla heart-shaped or 2-spttrred at base : pod several-seeded. 



1. DICENTRA. Petals slightly cohering with each other. Seeds crested. 



2. ADLUMIA. Petals all permanently united into .me -liuhily heart-haped 



body, which encloses the small pod. Seeds erestless. Climbing by the very 

 compound leave*. 



* * Corolla with only one petal spurred at base. 



3. CORYDALIS. Ovary and pod slender, several-seeded. Seeds crested. 



4. FUMARIA. Ovary and small closed fruit globular, 1-seeded. 



1. DICENTRA (meaning two-sparred in Greek). Commonly but wrongly 



named DHT.YTRA or l)i i:i.v i i; v. 1| Fl. in spring. 



* Wild species, low, viih <l<li<-ui, decompound leaves and few-flowered scapes sent 



n/i /'''"in (fu 1 - i/round in atrli/ sjin'm/. 



D. Cucullaria, Di -HUMAN'S BREECHES. Common in leaf-mould in 

 wciuiU X. Foliag' and (lowers from a sort of granular-scaly bulb; corolla 

 white tipped with yellow, with the two diverging spurs at the base longer than 

 the pedicel. 



D. Canad6nsis, CANADIAN D. or SQUIRREL-CORN. With the last N. 

 Separate yellow -rains, like Iimian corn, in place of a .-calv bulb ; the corolla 

 narrower and merely h -art-shaped at base, white or delicately flesh-colored, 

 sweet-scented ; inner petals much cre.-ted at tip. 



D. eximia is rarer, wild along the Alleghanies, occasionally cult., has 

 coarser foliage, and more numerous flowers than the last, pink-purple, and pro- 

 duced throughout the Minimer, from tufted .scaly rootstocU. 



* * Cultivated exotic, taller and coarser, leafy-stcmi/i/ii. mnnt/-fi,mvred. 



D. spectabilis, SHOWY I), or BLEEDING HEART. From N. China, 

 very ornamental through spring and early summer, with ample Pconv-like 

 leaves, and long drooping racemes of bright pink-red heart-shaped (lowers 

 (!' long): the two small sepals fall off in the bud. 



2. ADLtTMIA, CLIMBING FUMITORY. (Named in honor of a Mr. 

 Ail/mil.) (a) The only species is 



A. Cirrhbsa. Wild in low shady grounds from New York W. & S. and 

 cult. ; climbing over bushes or low trees, by means of its 2 - :!-pinnatelv com- 

 pound delicate leaves, the stalks of the leaflets acting like tendrils ; flowers tlesh- 

 COlored, panielc.l, all summer. 



3. CORYDALIS. ((Jreek name for Fumitory.) Our species are leafv- 

 stemmcd, or J), wild in rocky places, tl. Spring and summer. 



C. glauca, PAI.E COKYDAMS. Common, C,'-* liigh, very rjlaticous, with 

 the whitish (lowers variegated with yellow and pink, a short and rounded spur, 

 and erect pods. 



C. flavula, YELLOWISH C. From 1'cnii. S. ,<: W. : has the flowers pale 

 yellow, with the tips of the outer petals wing-crested ; seeds sharp-edged : other- 

 wise like the next. 



C. atirea, GOLDEN C. From Vermont W. S. Low and spreading; 

 flowers golden-yellow with a longish spur, and crcstlcss tips, hanging pods, and 

 smooth blunt-edged secd> 



4. FUMARIA, FfMITORY. (Xame from fumm, smoke.) Lovr, 

 leafy-Stemmed, with finely cut compound leaves. 



F. Officinalis, COMMON F. Common in old gardens, waste places, and 

 dung-heaps ; a delicate small weed, with a close spike of small pinkish crimson- 

 tipped flowers, in summer. 



