50 FUMITORY FAMILY. 



spoon-shaped tip?, which enclose the anthers of the 6 stamens in 

 two sets, along with the stigrna : the middle anther of each set is 

 2-celled, the lateral ones 1 -celled. Delicate or tender and very 

 smooth herbs, with colorless and inert juice, and much dissected 

 or compound leave-. 



* G>rolla heart-shaped or 2-spurred at base : pod several-seeded. 



1. DICKNTRA. Petals slightly cohering with eacli other. Seeds crested. 



2. ADLUMIA. Petals all permanently united into one slightly heart-shaped 



body, which encloses the small pod. Seeds crestless. Climbing by the very 



compound leaves. 



* # Corolla, with only one petal spurred at base. 



8. CORYDALIS. Ovary and pod slender, several-ceded. Seeds crested. 

 4. FUMAKIA. Ovary and small closed fruit globular, 1-seeded. 



1. DICENTRA (meaning two-spurred in Greek). Commonly but wrongly 

 named DICLYTRA or DIELYTUA. 1J. Fl. in spring. 



# Wild species, low, with delicate decompound leaves and few-flowered scapes sent 

 up from the ground in early $prwg. 



D. Cucullaria, DUTCHMAN'S BREECHES. Common in leaf-mould in 

 woods X. Foliage and flowers from a sort of granular-scaly bulb ; corolla 

 white tipped with yellow, with the two diverging spurs at the base longer than 

 the pedicel. 



D. Canad6nsis, CANADIAN* D. or SQUIRREL-CORN. With the last N. 

 Separate yellow grains, like Indian corn, in place of a scaly bulb ; the corolla 

 narrower and merely heart- shaped at base, white or delicately flesh-colared, 

 sweet-scented ; inner petals much crested at tip. 



D. eximia is rarer, wild along the Alleghanics, occasionally cult., has 

 coarser foliage, and more numerous flowers than the last, pink-purple, and pro- 

 duced throughout the summer, from tufted scaly rootstocks. 



* * Cultivated exotic, taller and coarser, leafy-stemmed, many-flowered. 



D. spectabilis, SHOWY D. or BLEEDING HEART. From X. China, 

 very ornamental through spring and early summer, with ample Peony-like 

 leaves, and long drooping racemes of bright pink-red heart-shaped flowers 

 (!' long) : the two small sepals fall off in the bud. 



2. ADLtfMIA, CLIMBING FUMITORY. (Named in honor of a Mr. 

 Adlum.) (a) The only species is 



A. Cirrhbsa. Wild in low shady grounds from Xew York W. & S. and 

 cult. ; climbing over bushes or low trees, by means of its 2 -3-pinnately com- 

 pound delicate leaves, the stalks of the leaflets acting like tendrils ; flowers flesh- 

 colored, panicle*!, all summer. 



3. CORYDALIS. (Greek name for Fumitory.) Our species arc leaiv- 

 stcmmed, or (a), wild in rocky places, fl. spring and summer. 



C. glauca, PALE CORYDALIS. Common, f>'-3 high, very glaucous, with 

 the whitish flowers variegated with vcllow and pink, a short and rounded spur, 

 u'ld erect pods. 



C. flayula, YELLOWISH C. From IVnn. S. & W. : has the flowers pale 

 yellow, with the tips of the outer petals wing-crestnl ; seeds sharp-edged : other- 

 wise like the next. 



C. aiirca, GOLDEN C. From Vermont W. S. Low and spreading ; 

 flowers golden-yellow with a longish spur, and crestlcss tips, hanging pods, and 

 smooth blunt-Gaged seeds. 



4. FUMARIA, FUMITORY. (Name from fumus, smoke.) Low, 

 'aty-stcmmcd, with finely cut compound leaves. 



P. officinalis, COMMON F. Common in old gardens, waste places, and 

 / * /.dung-heaps ; a delicate small weed, with a close spike of small pinkish crimson- 

 ' tipped flowers, in summer. 



