Fumariaceaee. Fumitory Family. 
Glabrous herbs with watery juice. Leaves commonly alternate, com- 
pound and much dissected. Flowers showy, irrescular. Sepals 2, scales> 
like. Petals 4, in two pairs, the outer larger, with spreading tips, one 
or both saccate or spurred at the base, the inner joined at the apex by 
calloused tips, united over and sheathing the anthers and stigma. Stamens 
6, in two sets opposite the outer petals, the filaments of each often 
united: middle anther of each set 2-chambered, the lateral ones l-chambered. 
Ovary superior, l-chambered. Fruit a capsule dehiscing by two valves (in 
pois or indehiscent, placentae 2, parietal. 
o Outer petals: alike, 2-spurred or 2-saccate A Dicentra 
o Outer petals unlike, only 1 being spurred 2, Corydalis 
<j Dicentra Bernh. 
Flowers in racemes or 
panicles, rarely solitary. Petals lightly joined to form a flattened, heart = 
shaped, 2-spurred or saccate corolla, deciduous or withering persistent. 
Filaments lightly joined, in two sets, more or less dilated. Stigma 2-crested. 
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0 Flowers several in a raceme, the inner petals mostly 
4 concealed by the outer pair |, D. cucullaria 
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f) Flowers solitary or two, the inner petals exposed by 
4 the widely recurving outer pair 2. D- uniflora 
1. D. cucullaria (L.) Bernh. Dutchman's Breeches. Scape and leaves 
erect, from a small rootstock bearing several globose tubers¥ the whole 
structure bulb-like; leaves on petioles 10-25 cm. long, the blades ovate in 
outline, 8-12 cm. long, twice ternately divided, these divisions again 
bipimately parted and lobed, the ultimate segments 6-12 mm. long, 1-5 mm. 
wide, linear-oblanceolate, obtuse mucronate, both surfaces glabrous; flowers 
pinkish and yellow, several in a raceme, 6-8 cm. long, on a scape subequal to 
the leaves or longer, pedicels 6-7 mm. long, subtended by thin ovate bracts 
1-3 mm. long, bearing a pair of similar nearly opposite bracts above the 
niddle erste; corolla flattened, triangular-obcordate, the sepals 
membranous, ovate, 2-3 mme long, outer petals 14-20 mm. long, saccate at the 
base, the spreading tips 4 mm. long, inner petals exserted about 3 mm.; cap= 
sule 1=-1.5 cm. long, tipped by the slender persistent style; seeds lenticular, 
2mme in diemeter, crested, very black and shiny. —,(Bicuculla occidentalis Rydb.), 
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