POPPY FAMILY. Papaveraceae. 



Climbing A beautiful and delicate vine climbing 



Fumitory, or and trailing over thickets or shrubbery, 

 Mountain with an attenuate, sack-shaped white 



Adhonia flower tinted greenish and magenta-pink, 



cirrhosa or very pale pink, in drooping clusters. 



White, tinted The leaves are compound, smooth, prettily 

 magenta-pink subdivided, mostly three-lobed, and the 

 une- co er Y [ ne pi^^g \yy means f their slender 

 stems. The weak and slender stem 8-12 feet long. In 

 moist situations, woods and thickets, from N. Eng., west 

 to Wis. and eastern Kan., and south to N. Car., among 

 the mountains. Named for John Adlum, of Washington, 

 a horticulturist, first interested in the cultivation of 

 grapes in this country. 



This is one of the daintiest wild flowers 

 Dutchman's * ,1 i-i. -vr 



B . of the spring, common in southern New 



1 tin ntra York, but rare or entirely absent in north- 



CucuUatria eastern New England. It occurs f re- 



White, (juently in Vermont, but is quite unknown 



A el rH W Ma PPed m the u P lands of Nevv Hampshire. The 

 plant is characterized by a feathery com- 

 pound leaf, long-stemmed and proceeding from the root, 

 thin, grayish (almost sage) green in tint, blue and paler 

 beneath ; the leaflets are finely slashed and are distrib- 

 uted trifoliately, i. e., in three parts. The flowering 

 stalk also proceeds from the root, and bears 4-8, rarely 

 more, nodding white flowers, of four petals joined in 

 pairs and forming, two of them, a double, two-spurred, 

 somewhat heart-shaped sack, the other two, within the 

 sack, very small, narrow, and protectingly adjusted over 

 the slightly protruding stamens. The spurs are stained 

 with light yellow. The flower is cross-fertilized mostly 

 by the agency of the early bumblebees (Bombus separa- 

 tes, B. virginious, JJ. vtogans, and B. pennsylvanicus). 

 Prof. Robertson (see Botanical Oazette, vol. 14, p. 120) 

 explains in detail the character of the flower and its vis- 

 iting insects. Honeybees collect only pollen; their 

 tongues are too short to reach, the nectar which is se- 

 creted in two long processes of the middle stamens ; the 

 proboscis of the bumblebee, 8 mm. long, reaches it, that 

 of the honeybee, 6 mm., can not. The honeybee 

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