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Chelidonine (identical with stylophorine), chelerythrine (which 

 is fluorescent ) . and protopine ( found also in opium and sangui- 

 naria). It also contains a bitter neutral principle chelidoxanthin 

 and several organic acids (Fig. 309). 



To this family belong a number of other plants which contain 

 principles similar to or identical with those found in Sanguinaria 

 and Chelidonium, and of these the following are common in the 



FIG. 308. A group of transplanted bloodroot plants (Sanguinaria canadensis) show- 

 ing i-flowered scapes, and the palmately veined and lobed leaves'. 



United States: Yellow or celandine poppy (Stylo phonim diphyl- 

 liun } and the Dutchman's breeches (Biciicnlla Cuciillaria). 



The alkaloid PKOTOPINE (fumarine) is found in the following 

 plants of this family: Sanguinaria canadensis ; Chdidoniniu 

 majus; Styloplwnun diphyllum; Eschscholtzia calif ornica; Glan- 

 cium corniculatum of Middle Europe; Biciicnlla Cuciillaria; Ad- 

 lumia fungpsa, the climbing fumitory of the United States and 

 Canada; Fumaria officinalis, the fumitory of Europe, which is 

 naturalized in the United States and Canada ; Bocconia cordata 

 of China and Japan, and B. frutcsccns of the West Indies, Mexico 



