Macleaya. | Fumanacee. 9 
Hutch. in Kew Bull. p. 282 (1920). Bocconia cordata Willd. Sp. Pl. II, 
p. 841 (1797); Bot. Mag. t. 1905 (1817). 
ARGEMONE Linn. 
Annual herb, with yellow latex; fls. in few-fld. terminal 
cymes; ovary I-celled; style very short; stigmas 4~-7-lobed; 
ovules on 4~7 parietal placentas.—Sp. 12; natives of America. 
A. MEXICANA Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 508 (1753); Hk. f. & Th. in Fl. Brit. 
Pd. 1, p. 117 (1872). 
Stem erect, 2-3 ft.; latex yellow; leaves sessile, semiamp- 
lexical, variegated, glaucous green and white, 13-4 in. long, 
set with numerous marginal spines; flowers 2 in. diam.; 
sepals spinosely horned; capsule 1% in., longitudinally 
dehiscent in the upper 4. 
Waste places in the low country; rather common. FI. Dec. Apr. ; 
bright yellow. 
VIIb.—FUMARIACEZ:. 
Herbs; 1. usually compound; stip. wanting; infl. racemose; 
fl. irregular, bisexual; sepals 2; petals 4, the outer pair 
larger; stamens 6, 2 with 2-celled, 4 with 1-celled anthers; 
ovary I-celled; ovules 2 or more, amphitropous; placentation 
parietal; style long or short; fruit a 1-seeded nut or many- 
seeded capsule; seeds with endosperm, embryo minute. 
Fruit a 1-seeded nut : : . Fumaria. 
Fruit a many-seeded capsule . . Dactylicapnos. 
FuMaria Linn. 
Herbs; erect or scandent; 1. divided; fl. small; style fili- 
form; ovules 2, on 2 placentas; fruit a 1-seeded nut.—Sp. 40; 
weeds of cultivation in the temperate regions of the Old 
World. 
F. muraLis Sonder ex Koch, Syn. ed. 2, p. 1017 (1845); Pugsley in 
Journ. Bot. L, Suppl. p. 22 (1912). 
A diffuse herb; leaves divided; racemes rather lax, 
equalling the peduncles; bracts linear; fruiting peduncles 
usually straight; sepals ovate, toothed; corolla pinkish- 
purple, blackish tipped; fruits sub-globose. 
Nuvara Eliya, in cultivated ground. Fl. Oct. Dec. 
Native of Europe and N. Africa, also found in Brazil and S. Africa. 
DactTyLIcAPNos Wall. 
D. scanpens Hutch. in Kew Bull. 1921, p. 105. Dietlytra scandens 
D. Don. Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 198 (1825). Dicentra scandens Walp. 
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