40 PLANTS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



FUMARIA. L. 16. 6. 



F. officinalis. L. Fumitory. Introduced from Europe, but 

 growing about gardens and fields ; rather handsome, glaucous, 

 pinnate leaves, red or crimson flowery, seed in a pouch or pod ; 

 stem a foot or more high ; flowers in July. Annual. 



On account of the disagreeable smell, named from the Latin 

 for smoke. Loudon. 



CORYDALIS. Vent. 



The Greek name of Fumitory. Loudon. 



C. cucullaria. Pers. Cohc Weed. Bears a cluster of white 

 flowers closed at the top, on radical and leafless white stems about 

 six or eight inches high ; leaves radical, much-divided into leafets, 

 delicate green, shghtly glaucous ; blooms in May, along hedges 

 and light woods ; root bulbous, or a collection of small solid tubers, 



C. glauca, Ph., and C. formosa^ Ph., are both beautiful plants 

 of the woods, and might ornament any garden ; flower in May. 



C. fungosa. Pers. Climbing Colic Weed ; has already been 

 introduced from our woods into the gardens and yards, where it 

 climbs or follows the trail placed for it often twenty feet in length, 

 forming fine arches and arbours, and bearing numerous clusters of 

 whitish or flesh-colored flowers ; the corolla has a spongy mass 

 inside, as if one petal. Stem, climbing by tendrils, and full of 

 flowers ; blossoms in July. 



The species have suffered much in their names, which have 

 been repeatedly changed. 



ORDER 11. CAPPERIDEiE. Caper Tribe. 



Monosepalous or polysepalous, four divisions, and as many 

 petals cruciate ; stamens definite or indefinite, rarely tetradyna- 

 mous, commonly many, mostly perigynous ; ovary on a short 

 stem ; leaves various and inflorescence also ; some are herba- 

 ceous. 



