FUMARIACE.E. (FUMITORY FAMILY.) 21 



crested. Perennial herbs, with yellow juice, 1 - 2-phmatifid leaves, and showy 

 loug-peduiicled yellow flowers. 



1 . S. diphyllum, Nutt. jStem 1 - 1^ high ; leaves petioled, 5 - 7-lobed ; 

 peduncles terminal, single or clustered ; flowers 1' wide, bright yellow. Rich 

 woods. Tennessee. 



3. CHELIDONIUM, L. CELANDINE. 



Sepals 2. Petals 4. Stigma 2-lobed. Capsule linear, 2-valved. Seed 

 crested. Herbs, with yellow juice, piunately divided leaves, and small yel- 

 low umbelled flowers. 



1. C. majus, L. Glabrous, branching, l-2 high; divisions of the 

 leaves lobed and toothed; umbel peduncled, 4-flowered ; capsule knotty. 

 Waste ground. Introduced. 



4. SANGUINARIA, L. PUCCOON, BLOODKOOT. 



Sepals 2. Petals 8 -12. Stigmas 2. Capsule 2-valved, the valves separat- 

 ing from the filiform persistent placenta. Seeds crested. A stemless peren- 

 nial herb, with orange-colored juice. Rhizoma thick. Leaves reniform, with 

 5-7 wavy or toothed lobes. Flowers white, solitary at the summit of the 

 naked scape, fugacious. 



1. S. Canadensis, L. Rich woods, Florida and northward. March. 

 Scape 4' - G' high. Flowers 1' wide, appearing with the leaves. 



ORDER 10. FUMARIACE^E. (FUMITORY FAMILY.) 



Smooth herbs with watery juice, alternate compound dissected 

 leaves, without stipules, and irregular flowers. Sepals 2. Petals 4; 

 the two outer or one of them spurred or gibbous at the base ; the two 

 inner callous at the apex, and cohering over the stigma. Stamens 6, 

 commonly united in two sets of three each, placed opposite the outer 

 petals, hypogynous : anther of the middle stamen 2-celled, of the lat- 

 eral ones 1-celled. Capsule 1 -celled and 2-valved, with two parietal 

 placenta?, or 1-seeded and indehiscent. Embryo minute in fleshy 

 albumen. 



1. ADLUMIA- Raf. CLIMBING FUMITORY. 



Petals united, free at the summit, the two outer gibbous at the base. Fila- 

 ments united. Stigma 2-crested. Capsule linear-oblong, 4 - 8-seeded. Seed 

 reniform, crestless. A smooth biennial vine. Leaves 3-piuuate, with ten- 

 dril-like petioles. Flowers purplish, in axillary drooping panicles. 



1 A. cirrhosa, Raf. Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. 

 Stem climbing high. Leaflets thin, obovate, 2 <*-lobed. Corolla thick and 

 spongy. 



2. DICENTRA, Bork. DUTCHMAN'S BKKECHES. 



Petals conuivent but scarcely united, the two outer spurred or gilibous at 

 the base, the inner erested. Filaments slightly united in two sets. Stigma 



