26 FUMARIACE^E. (FUMITORY FAMILY.) 



X 5. GLAtlCIUlfl, 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- 

 tirion, in which the crestless seeds are ]>artly immersed. Annuals or biennials, 

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

 Greek name, yKavmov, from the glaucous foliage.) 



1. O. LtiTEUM, Scop. Glaucous; lower leaves pinnatifid ; upper ones sin- 

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

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



6. SANGUINARIA, Dill. BLOOD-ROOT. 



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

 about 24. Style short: stigma 2-groovcd. 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 palmatc-lobed leaf, and a 1 -flowered naked scape. Flower white, hand- 

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



1. S. Canadensis, L. Open rich woods ; common. April, May. 



ESCHSCHOLTZIA CALIFORNIA, and E. DouGLAsn, now common orna- 

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

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



ORDER 11. FUMARIACE^E. (FUMITORY FAMILY.) 



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

 lar flowers, tvith 4 somewhat united peta},s, 6 diadelphous stamens, and pods 

 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-ceIlod, 

 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 slendar : the 2 valves separating from the persistent filiform placentae. 



1. ADUJMIA. Corolla heart-flhaped, perriatant ; petals united. Seeds crest! 



2. DICENTHA. Corolla honrt-sh;<iH>(l or 2-spurred at the base. Seeds crested. 

 8. COKYDALIS. Corolla 1-spurred at the base. Seeds crested. 



* * Pod Ik-shy, iiulfhisi-ent, globulur, 1-seeded, 

 4. FUMA11IA. Corolla 1-spurred at the baae Seed crestless. 



