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funnel-form, with a broadly dilated rim:- pod long and slender. Cali- 

 fornia. 



3. SANGUINARIA. Bloodroot. 



Low, acaulescent perennial, from thick, horizontal, pointed and scarred 

 rootstocks, with juice red and acrid: in very early spring a naked scape, 

 carrying 1 terminal white Hower, enfolded at first by long-petioled kidney- 

 shaped or cordate, glaufous, palmately veined leaf, sepals 2, soon falling: 

 petals 8-12, unequal, in 2 rows, not lasting: stamens many: fruit a capsule, 

 oblong, swollen, 1-celled, many-seeded, 2-valved, dehiscent at base. 



8. Canadensis, Linn. Flower large, white, fragile, on a scape about 6 

 in. tall: glabrous and glaucous: leaves with rounded lobes and sinuses. 

 Common in rich, open woods and on sunny banks; early spring. 



4. STYLOPHOBUM. Celandine Poppy. 



Hairy herbs with yellow juice, and pinnately divided leaves: flowers 

 large, yeliow: style 1: the stigma 3-4-lobed. 



S. diph^Uum, Nutt. Low perennial, usually with two opposite, pin- 

 nately parted leaves on the stem: leaves often marked with white, 5-7-lobed: 

 flowers few, in umbels, large, 1)4-2 in. across, clear yellow. Frequent in 

 rich woods in central states. May. 



5. CHELIDONIUM. Celandine. 



Rather weak, branching herbs: perennial: leaves alternate, pinnatified: 

 juice deep yellow: flowers yellow, small, the bud nodding: sepals 2: petals 

 4: stamens many. 



C. majus, Linn. Along roadsides, about fences, as a weed, growing 1-4 

 ft. high: leaves thin, once or twice pinnatified: flowers in loose umbels, 

 soon perishing, about >2-% in, in diameter. 



XIX. FUMARIACE^ 



Smooth, succulent herbs with noticeably delicate, finely dissected, 

 or lace-like leaves, alternate or radical, exstipulate: flowers small, 

 irregular, racemose: 2 very small sepals, scale-like: petals 4, small, 

 partially united : 6 diadelphous stamens (2 sets of 3 each): ovaries 1- 

 celled, fruit a pod, 1-eelled, 1-seeded and indehiscent, or several- 

 seeded with 2 parietal placentse. 



A. Corolla 2- spurred at base, or heart-shaped: fis. pendent .A. Bicentra 

 AA. Corolla with 1 spur at base. 



B. Pod slender, several-seeded: seeds arilled, or crested... 2. Conjdalis 

 BB. Pod globular, 1-seeded, indehiscent 3. Fumaria 



