Vor,. II.] POPPY FAMILY. 105 
8. ADLUMIA Raf. Med. Rep. (II.) 5: 352. 1808. 
Glabrous climbing vines, with decompound leaves. Sepals 2, scale-like. Petals 4, all 
permanently united into a narrowly ovate cordate persistent spongy corolla 4-lobed at the 
apex. Stamens 6, monadelphous below, diadelphous above, adherent to the petals. Cap- 
sule oblong, included in the persistent corolla. Seeds crestless. Closely related to certain 
Asiatic species of Bicuculla, [In honor of John Adlum, a gardener of Washington. ] 
A monotypic genus of eastern North America. 
1. Adlumia fungosa ( Ait.) Greene. 
Climbing Fumitory. (Fig. 1672.) 
Fumaria fungosa Ait. Hort. Kew. 3:1. 1789. 
Adlumia cirrhosa Rat. Med. Rep. (II.) 5: 352. 1808. 
A. fungosa Greene; B.S.P. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 3. 1888. 
Weak, slender, climbing over other plants byits | 
slender petioles. Leaves bipinnate, the primary 
divisions distant, the second more approximate, 
all slender-stalked; ultimate segments lobed or _ |{\ 
entire, very thin, ovate or cuneate, pale beneath; i YS AN \ 
flowers numerous in axillary drooping cymes, 5//— fi Z| = Wate 
7’’ long, 3’’ broad at the base, narrowly ovate, My > 
greenish purple; capsule 2-valved, few-seeded. 7 \ 
In moist woods and thickets, New Brunswick to y i”, 
Ontario and Michigan, south to North Carolina and 3 
Kansas. Called also Mountain Fringe and Alleghany \ 
Vine. June-Oct. 
Q- CAPNOIDES Adans. Fam. Pl. 2: ‘eit, Ww 7lsie, 
[NECKERIA Scop. Introd. 313. 1777.] 
[CorRyYDALIS Vent. Choix, 19. 1803. ] 
Erect or climbing herbs, with basal and cauline decompound leaves, and racemose flow- 
ers, terminal, or opposite the petioles. Sepals 2,small. Corollairregular, deciduous; petals 
4, erect-connivent, one of the outer pair spurred at the base, the interior ones narrow, keeled 
on the back. Stamens 6, in 2 sets, opposite the outer petals. Placentae 2; style entire, di- 
lated or lobed, persistent, Capsule linear or oblong, 2-valved. [Greek, smoke-like, in 
allusion to the smoke-like odor of some species, as in /umaria. ] 
About 110 species, natives of the north temperate zone and South Africa. 
Stems tall; flowers pink with yellow tips. : I. C, sempervirens. 
Stems low, diffuse or ascending; flowers yellow. 
Flowers 3/’-4'' long; spur short. ; : 
Seeds sharp-margined, wrinkled; pods drooping or spreading. 2. C. flavulum. 
Seeds blunt-margined, smooth, shining; pods ascending. 3. C. micranthum., 
Flowers 6''-8"’ long; spur conspicuous. 
Pods smooth. : ; 
Seeds smooth or obscurely reticulated; pods spreading or pendulous. 
Capsules spreading or drooping, distinctly torulose; eastern, 4. C. aureum. 
Capsules ascending, terete or slightly torulose; western. 5. C. montanum. 
Seeds finely reticulated; pods ascending. . C. curvisiliqum. 
Pods densely covered with transparent vesicles. . C. crystallinum. 
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1. Capnoides sempérvirens (L,.) Borck. 
Pink Corydalis. (Fig. 1673.) 
Fumaria sempervirens I, Sp. Pl. 700. 1753. 
Capnoides sempervirens Borck. in Roem. Arch. 1: Part 2, 44. 1797. 
Corydalis sempervirens Pers. Syn. 2: 269. 1807. 
Corydalis glauca Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 463. 1814. 
Glabrous, glaucous, erect or ascending, 1°-2° high, freely 
branching. Lower leaves 1/-4’ long, short-petioled, the 
upper nearly sessile, pinnately decompound, the primary di- 
visions distant, the ultimate segments obovate or cuneate, 
toothed or entire, obtuse, often mucronulate; flowers numer- 
ous, panicled, borne in cymose clusters at the ends of the 
branches, 5//-8’’ long, pink with a yellow tip; spur rounded, 
about 1/’ long; capsules narrowly linear, erect, 1/—2/ long, 
nodose when mature; seeds shining, minutely reticulated. 
In rocky places, Nova Scotia to the Canadian Rocky Moun- 
tains, south to North Carolina and Minnesota, Also in British 
Columbia and Alaska. Ascends to 4500 ft. in North Carolina. 
April-Sept. 
