22 FUMARIACE^. 



SARRACENIA. Linn. — Side-saddle Flower. 



( In honor of Dr. Sarrazin, who resided in Quebec, and sent the plant to 

 Tournefort.) 



Sepals 6, with a 3 -leaved involucre. Petals 5. Stigma very 

 large, peltate, 5-angled. Capsule 5-celled. 



(S". purpurea Linn. : leaves much shorter than the scape, inflated, con- 

 tracted at the mouth, having a broad arched lateral wing ; appendix erect, 

 broad-cordate, undulate, not mucronate. 



Sphagnous swamps. Can. to Car. W. to Lake Superior. June, July. %.— 

 Scape 1 — 2 feet high, with a solitary terminal purple flower. A variety with 

 yellow flowers has been found in Northampton, Mass. and in Seneca co. N. Y 



Common Side-saddle Flower. 



Order XI. FUMARIACE^.— Fumeworts. 



Sepals 2, deciduous. Petals 4, cruciate, very irregular. 

 Stamens 4, distinct, or 6, in 2 parcels, opposite the outer pe- 

 tals, very seldom all separate. Ovary free, 1 -celled. Stigma 

 with 2 or more points. Fruit either an indehiscent 1 or 2- 

 seeded nut, or a 2-valved many-seeded pod. Seeds horizontal, 

 with fleshy albumen. — Herbs with brittle stems and a watery 

 juice. Leaves usually alternate, many-cleft, often with tendrils. 



1. FUMARIA. Linn.—FnmitoTy. 



(From the Latin fumus, smoke ; perhaps in allusion to the eflfect of its juice 

 and odor on the eyes.) 



Calyx of 2 sepals. Petals 4, one gibbous or spurred at the 

 base. Pouch ovate or globose, 1 -seeded, indehiscent, not pointed 

 with a style. 



P. officinalis Linn. : stem sub-erect ; leaves bipinnate and cleft with 

 linear segments ; racemes rather loose ; fruit-bearing pedicels erect, twice as 

 long as the bracts ; pouch globose, smooth, somewhat retuse. 



Near cultivated ground. N. Y. to Car. May — July, Aug. ®. — Stem a foot 

 high. Flowers rose-colored. Introduced from Europe. Common Fumitory. 



2. DICENTRA. iJorcM.—Dicentra. 

 (From the Greek Jij twice, and Kcvrpov a spur.) 



Petals 4, 2 outer ones equally spurred or gibbous at base. 

 Pod 2-valved, many-seeded. 



1. D. CucvZlaria Torr.: scape naked; raceme, simple, 1-sided; 

 of the inner petals short ; spurs straight, divaricate, acute. Diclytra Cii 

 laria D. C. Fumaria Cucullaria Linn. 



Shady hills. Throughout Can. and N. S. W. to Miss. AprU, May. % — 

 Root bulbous. Scape 6—8 inches high. Leaves 2, tritemately decompound. 



