26 FUMARIACE^E. (FUMITORY FAMILY.) 



S. GLAtcIUM, Tourn. Horn-Poppy. 



Sepals 2. Petals 4. Stamens indefinite. Style none : stigma 2-lobed or 2- 

 horned. Pod very long and linear, completely 2-celled by a spongy false par- 

 tition, in which the crestless seeds are partly immersed. — Annuals or biennials, 

 with saffron-colored juice, clasping leaves, and solitary yellow flowers. (The 

 Greek name, y\avKiov, from the glaucous foliage.) 



1. €r. luteum, Scop. Glaucous ; lower leaves pinnatifid ; upper ones sin- 

 uatc-lobed and toothed, cordate-clasping; pods rough (6' -10' long). — Waste 

 places, Maryland and Virginia ; not common. (Adv. from Eu.) 



6. SANGIJINAKIA, Dili. Blood-root. 



Sepals 2. Petals 8-12, spatulate-oblong, the inner narrower. Stamens 

 about 24. Style short : stigma 2-grooved. Pod oblong, turgid, 1 -celled, 2- 

 valved. Seeds with a large crest. — A low perennial, with thick prostrate root- 

 stocks, surcharged with red-orange acrid juice, sending up in earliest spring a 

 rounded palmate-lobed leaf, and a 1 -flowered naked scape. Elower white, hand- 

 some. (Name from the color of the juice.) 



1. §. Craaiadeassis, L. — Open rich woods ; common. April, May. 



Eschsciioltzia Californica, and E. DouglAsii, now common orna- 

 mental annuals in the gardens, arc curious Papaveraceous plants from Califor- 

 nia and Oregon. Their juice is colorless, but with the odor of muriatic acid. 



Order 11. FUMARIACEJJ. (Fumitory Family.) 



Delicate smooth herbs, with watery juice, compound dissected leaves, irregu- 

 lar flowers, with 4 somewhat united petals, 6 diadelphous stamens, and j)ods 

 and seeds like those of the Poppy Family. — Sepals 2, small and scale-like. 

 Corolla flattened, closed ; the 4 petals in two pairs ; the outer with spread- 

 ing tips, and one or both of them spurred or saccate at the base ; the inner 

 pair narrower, and with their callous crested tips united over the stigma. 

 Stamens in two sets of 3 each, placed opposite the larger petals, hypogy- 

 nous ; their filaments often united ; the middle anther of each set 2-eelled, 

 the lateral ones 1-celled. Stigma flattened at right angles with the ovary. 

 Pod 1-celled, either 1 seeded and indehiscent, or several-seeded with 2 pa- 

 rietal placentas. — Leaves usually alternate, without stipules. (Slightly 

 bitter, innocent plants.) 



Synopsis. 



* Pod slendsr : the 2 valves separating from the persistent filiform placental. 



1. ADLUMTA. Corolla heart-shaped, persistent ; petals united. Seeds crestless. 



2. DICENTRA. Corolla, heart-shaped or "-spurred at the base. Seeds crested. 



3. COUYDALIS. Corolla 1-spurred at the base. Seeds crested. 



* # Pod fleshy, indehiscent, globular, 1-seeded. 



4. FOMARIA. Corolla 1-spurred at the base Seed crestless. 



