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BOTANY AND PHARMACOGNOSY. 



To this family belong a number of other plants which contain 

 principles similar to or identical with those found in Sanguinaria 

 and Chelidonium, and of these the following are common in the 

 United States: Yellow or celandine poppy (Stylophormn diphyl- 

 Iinn) and the Dutchman's breeches {Bicnciilla CucuUaria). 



The alkaloid protopine (fumarine) is found in the following 

 plants of this family: Sanguinaria canadensis; Chelidonium 

 majiis; Sfyloplwnini diphyllum; Eschscholtsia californica; Glaii- 



Fig. 148. A group of transplanted bloodroot plants {Sanguinaria cai:aJensis) show- 

 ing i-flowered scapes, and the palmately veined and lobed leaves. 



cium cornicitlahim of Middle Europe; BicncuUa CucuUaria: Ad- 

 lumia fnngosa, the climbing fumitory of the United States and 

 Canada ; Fumaria officinalis, the fumitor}- of Europe, which is 

 naturalized in the United States and Canada ; Bocconia cordata 

 of China and Japan, and B. frntescens of the West Indies, Mexico 

 and Paraguay : Dicentra pttsilla of Japan and several species of 

 corydalis. The tubers of squirrel corn or corydalis (Bicuculla 

 canadensis) contain the alkaloidal corydaline. 



