70 FUMARIACEiE. Fumahia. 



"Shady woods of the Wahlamet; particularly abundant near the falls, in 

 the darkest places. — Plant 3-4 feet hi^h. Root not ligneous, wholly subter- 

 ranean. Cauline leaves about 2 : ultimate segments longer than in the pre- 

 ceding species. Flowers pale red, about an inch long. Capsule oblong, 

 about 4-seeded, defiexed, of a thick and ahaost cartilaginous consistence, 

 bursting elastically with considerable force, and scattering the seeds to a dis- 

 tance. Stigma 2-lobcd at the base, 4-toothed at the summit." NiUt. 



§ 3. Perennial: stem simple, from a tuberous rhizoma: cauline leaves 

 few: pods oval or oblong. — Capnoides, DC. 



5. C. paucifiora (Pers.) : cauline leaves 2-3, below the middle of the 

 stem, ternately or biternately divided ; segments obovate ; bracts ovate, 

 acute; raceme crowded, few-flowered. DC.prodr. 1. p. 127; Pers. syn.2. 

 p. 269 ; Del ess. ic. 2. t. 3. / A ; Cham. ^- Schlecht. in Linncea, 1. p. 560. 



Island of St. Lawrence, in Behring's Straits, Chamisso. A native also 

 of Ahaic Siberia, from whence we have specimens. — Tuber ovate, some- 

 times forked or paknate. Plant about 4 inches high. Leaves nearly radical, 

 on long petioles, the base of which sheaths the stem. Stem, or rather scape, 

 longer than the leaves, bearing a short crowded raceme of large purple flow- 

 ers. Spur incurved. 



4. FUMARIA. Linn.; DC. syst. 2. p. 129. 



Only one of the exterior petals spurred or gibbous at the base. Fruit a 1- 

 seeded subglobose nut : style deciduous. — Stems branching, leafy. Leaves 

 finely dissected. Flowers small, in dense racemes. 



1. F. officinalis (Linn.): sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, sharply toothed, 

 about the length of the globose retuse nut ; bracts much shorter than the pe- 

 dicels of the fruit. Arnott, in Hook. Jl. Bor.-Am. l.p. 37. 



0. diffuse or scandent ; segments oi the leaves broad, glaucous. Arnott, I. c. 

 F. media, D C. prodr. 1. p. 130. F. oflScinalis, Pursh, f. 2. p. 463 ; Darlingt. 

 f. Cest. jD. 401 ; Bigel f. Bost. ed. 2. p. 262. 



Fields and cultivated grounds. Introduced. May-Aug. — (2) Stem 8-12 

 inches high, branching, at first erect, at length diffuse. Flowers pale violet 

 mixed Avith green and purple. 



Order XIV. CRUCIFERiE. Ju.^s. 



Sepals 4, deciduous, imbricatecl or very rarely valvate in aestivation ; 

 the two outer (anterior and posterior) corresponding to the stigmas, 

 often narrower ; the two inner opposite the valves of the capsule, often 

 concave or gibbous at the base, rarely spurred. Petals 4, hypogynous, 

 cruciate, alternate with the sepals, regular, mostly unguiculate and 

 nearly equal, deciduous. Stamens 6, hypogynous ; the two opposite 

 the lateral sepals shorter and usually inserted somewhat lower than 

 the others, occasionally toothed ; the other four in pairs opposite the 



