FLMITOKY FAMILY. 



IX. FUMARIACE^, FUMITORY FAMILY. 



Sepals 2, s{;ale-likc ; petals 4, much Livi^er, also in-e.sjular 

 and closed, the 2 outer with spreading tips and 1 or both 

 spurred or saccate at base, the 2 inner and smaller petals 

 united by their spoon-shaped tijjs, which inclose the anthers 

 of the 6 stamens in 2 sets along with the stigma ; the middle 

 anther of each set is 2-celled, the lateral ones being 1-celled. 

 Delicate or tender and very smooth herbs, with colorless and 

 inert juice, and much dissected or compound leaves. 



* Corolla heart-shaped or •l-spurred at base ; pod several-seeded. 

 1. DICEXTHA. Petals slightly cohering: with each other. Seeds crested. 

 \i. -YDLr.MIA. Petals all permanently united into one slightly heart-shaped body, which 

 incloses the small pod. Seeds erestless. Climbing by the very compound leaves. 

 « * Corolla loith only one petal spurred at base. 



3. CORYDALIS. Ovary and pod slender, several-seeded. Seeds crested. 



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



1. DICENTRA (meaning 2-spurred in Greek). Often named Diclv- 

 Tii.v or DiKi.vTRA. % Flo\Yers in spring. 



* American species, loir, with delicate decompound leaves and feio-Jiowered 



scapes scut up from the (/round in early spring. 

 ■<- liarcmes simple, feio-flowered ; divisions of leaves linear. 



D. CucuUaria, DC. Dutchman's Breeche.s. Common in leaf 

 mold in woods N. Foliage and iiowers from a sort of granular-scaly 

 bulb ; corolla white, tipped with yellow, with the 2 diverging spurs at the 

 base longer than the pedicel, the inner petals minutely crested. 



D. Canadensis, YiV. Canadian D. or Squikrel Corn. With the 

 last N. ITiidcrground shoots bearing 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-colored, sweet-scented ; inner 

 petals prominently crested at tip. 



-f- -1- Racemes compound, althoufjh small, clustered; divisions of leaces 

 broad-oblony. 



D. exlmia. DC. A rare species in W. X. Y. and S. in AUeghanies, 

 also cult., has reddish-purple, drooping, narrow flowers with short- 

 hooked spurs ; underground shoots scaly. 



D. formbsa, DC, of the Pacific coast, also cult., has broader flowers 

 than the last and spurs not hooked. 



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

 D. spectdbilis, DC. Snowv D. or Bli;i;iii\<; Hkart, very ornamental 



through spring and early sununer. with ample Teony-like leaves, and long 

 drooping racemes of brii,dit pink-red (or white), heart-shaped flowers 

 (1' long) 1 ; the 2 small sepals fall off in the bud. China. 



2. ADLUMIA, ADLUMIA or CLIMBINCi FUMITORY. (Named 

 for John Adlum, of Washington, D. C, one of the earliest cultivators 

 of native grapes, and author of the first American book upon the 



subject.) (D A single species. 



