22 FUMARIACE^E. 



SARRACENIA. Linn. Side-saddle Flower. 



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

 Tournefort.) 



Sepals 5, 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. 1\.. 

 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 XL FUMARIACE^E. 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. Fumitory. 



(From the Latin fumus, smoke ; perhaps in allusion to the effect 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. 



F. 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. (J). Stem a foot 

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



2. DICENTRA. Borckh. Dicentra. 

 (From the Greek Sis twice, and Ktvrpov a spur.) 



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

 Pod 2-valved, many-seeded. 



1. D. Cucullaria Torr.: scape naked; raceme, siim)Je, l-sided: wino 

 of'tiie inner petals short; spurs straight, divaricate, aci>tfv Didytra C 

 laria D. C. Fumaria Cucullaria Linn. 



Shady hills. Throughout Can. and N. S. W. to Miss. An-1. '.T:i 

 Root bulbous. Scape 6 8 inches high. Leaves 2, tritei..udy A-i 



