FUMARIACE^. (FUMITORY FAMILY.) 21 



crested. — Perennial herbs, with yellow juice, 1 - 2-piunatifid leaves, and showy 

 loug-peduucled yellow flowers. 



1. S. diphyllum, Nutt. Stem 1°- 1^° high ; leaves petioled, 5- T-loted ; 

 peduncles terminal, single or clustered; flowers 1' wide, bright yellow. — Rich 

 woods. Tennessee. 



3. CHELIDONIUM, L. Celandine. 



Sepals 2. Petals 4. Stigma 2-lobed. Capsule linear, 2-valved. Seed 

 crested. — Herbs, with yellow juice, pinnately divided leaves, and small yel- 

 low umbelled flowers. 



1. C. majUS, L. Glabrous, branching, l°-2° high; divisions of the 

 leaves lobed and toothed; umbel peduucled, 4-flowered ; capsule knotty. — 

 Waste groimd. Introduced. 



4. SANGXJINARIA, L. Puccoon, Bloodroot. 



Sepals 2. Petals 8-12. Stigmas 2. Capsule 2-valved, the valves separat- 

 ing from the filiform persistent placentiE. Seeds crested. — A stemless peren- 

 nial herb, with orange-colored juice. Rhizoma thick. Leaves reniform, with 

 5-7 wavy or toothed lobes. Flowers white, solitary at the summit of the 

 naked scape, fugacious. 



1. S. Canadensis, L. — Rich woods, Florida and northward. March. — 

 Scape 4' - 6' high. Flowers 1' wide, apj^eariug with the leaves. 



Order 10. FUMARIACE^. (Fumitory Family.) 



Smooth herbs with watery juice, alternate compound dissected 

 leaves, without stipules, and irregular flowers. Sepals 2. Petals 4; 

 the two outer or one of them spurred or gibbous at the base ; the two 

 inner callous at the apex, and cohering over the stigma. Stamens 6, 

 commonly united in two sets of three each, placed opposite the outer 

 petals, lijijogynous : anther of the middle stamen 2-celled, of the lat- 

 eral ones 1-celled. Capsule 1-celled and 2-valved, with two parietal 

 placentfB, or 1-seeded and indehiscent. Embryo minute in fleshy 

 albumen. 



1. ADLUMIA, Raf. Climbing Fumitory. 



Petals united, free at the summit, the two outer gibbous at the base. Fila- 

 ments united. Stigma 2-crested. Capsule linear-oblong, 4 - 8-seeded. Seed 

 reniform, crestless. — A smooth biennial vine. Leaves 3-pinnate, Avith ten- 

 dril-like petioles. Flowers purplish, in axillary drooping panicles. 



1. A. cirrhosa, Raf. — Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. — 

 Stem climbing high. Leaflets thin, obovate, 2 - 3-lobed. Corolla thick and 

 spongy. 



2. DICENTRA, Bork. Dutchman's Breeches. 



Petals connivent but scarcely united, the two outer spurred or gibbous at 

 the base, the inner ^rested. Filaments slightly united in two sets. Stigma 



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