No. 556 



Flowers Unsymmetrical and Irregular, Often 

 Pea-like, Violet-like, or Spurred, or Otherwise 

 not symmetrical. See Figs. 558-621. 



(Nos. 557-621.) 

 There are about 50 wild flowers in this group. Nearly all 

 have separate petals, but these are not regular and of the 

 usual shape, but modified to form an unsymmetrical and ir- 

 regular flower. Sometimes there is a distinct spur, as in the 

 Columbine, Jewel-weed, and the Violets. Others are pea-like, 

 as in the garden Sweet-pea, while in the Milkworts, the sepals 

 are unequal in length and some of the petals slightly united 

 to form a short tube. The whole group may be divided thus : 



Flowers irregular, but not spurred no. 583 



Flowers with one or more petals produced into a spur (See Fig. 

 558-582) 

 Leaves not divided or dissected, except in some violets (See no. 



570) no. 565 



Leaves compound, or divided, or dissected 



Flowers blue or crimson no. 562 



Flowers white, yellow, or pinkish purple 



Fumewort Family no. 557 



557. FUMEWORT FAMILY. FUMARIACEAE. 



Weak and quickly wilting herbs with dissected, usually 

 smooth, leaves. Flowers in various kinds of clusters, with 2 

 sepals and 4 petals, some of which unite to form a spur 

 at the base of the flower. Fruit a dry pod. (For the Climb- 

 ing Fumitory see, among the vines. No. 236.) 



Leaves wholly basal ; flowers cream white 



Dutchman's Breeches no. 558 



Leaves partly basal, but some borne on the stem 



Spurs yellow Golden Corydalis no. 559 



Spurs yellow, tipped with pink Pink Corydalis no. 560 



Spurs purplish-pink Hedge Fumitory no 561 



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