VOL. II.] 



POPPY FAMILY. 



105 



1808. 

 1888. 



8. ADLUMIA Raf. Med. Rep. (II.) 5: 352. 1808. 



Glabrous climbing vines, with decompound leaves. Sepals 2, scale-like. Petals 4, all 

 permanently united into a narrowly ovate cordate persistent spongy corolla 4-lobed at the 

 apex. Stamens 6, monadelphous below, diadelphous above, adherent to the petals. Cap- 

 sule oblong, included in the persistent corolla. Seeds crestless. Closely related to certain 

 Asiatic species of Bicuctilla. [In honor of John Adlum, a gardener of Washington.] 



A monotypic genus of eastern North America. 



i. Adlumia fungosa (Ait.) Greene. 

 Climbing Fumitory. (Fig. 1672.) 



Fumaria fungosa Ait. Ilort. Kew. 3: i. 1789. 

 Adlumia cirrhosa Raf. Med. Rep. (II.) 5 : 35 2 - 

 A. fungosa Greene; B.S.P. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 3. 



Weak, slender, climbing over other plants by its 

 slender petioles. Leaves bipinnate, the primary 

 divisions distant, the second more approximate, 

 all slender-stalked; ultimate segments lobed or 

 entire, very thin, ovate or cuneate, pale beneath; 

 flowers numerous in axillary drooping cymes, 5"- 

 7" long, s" broad at the base, narrowly ovate, 

 greenish purple; capsule 2-valved, few-seeded. 



In moist woods and thickets, New Brunswick to 

 Ontario and Michigan, south to North Carolina and 

 Kansas. Called also Mountain Fringe and Alleghany 

 Vine. June-Oct. 



9. CAPNOIDES Adans. Fam. PI. 2: 431. 1763. 

 [NECKERIA Scop. Introd. 313. 1777.] 

 [CORYDALIS Vent Choix, 19. 1803.] 



Erect or climbing herbs, with basal and cauline decompound leaves, and racemose flow- 

 ers, terminal, or opposite the petioles. Sepals 2, small. Corolla irregular, deciduous; petals 

 4, erect-connivent, one of the outer pair spurred at the base, the interior ones narrow, keeled 

 on the back. Stamens 6, in 2 sets, opposite the outer petals. Placentae 2; style entire, di- 

 lated or lobed, persistent. Capsule linear or oblong, 2-valved. [Greek, smoke-like, in 

 allusion to the smoke-like odor of some species, as in Fumaria.] 



About no species, natives of the north temperate zone and South Africa. 



Stems tall; flowers pink with yellow tips. I. C. sempervirens. 



Stems low, diffuse or ascending; flowers yellow. 

 Flowers ^"-4" long; spur short. 



Seeds sharp-margined, wrinkled; pods drooping or spreading. 2. C.flavulum. 



Seeds blunt-margined, smooth, shining; pods ascending. 3. C. micrantfijim. 



Flowers 6" -8" long; spur conspicuous. 

 Pods smooth. 



Seeds smooth or obscurely reticulated; pods spreading or pendulous. 



Capsules spreading or drooping, distinctly torulose; eastern. 4. C. aureum. 

 Capsules ascending, terete or slightly torulose; western. 5. C. montanum. 



Seeds finely reticulated; pods ascending. 6. C. curvisiliqum. 



Pods densely covered with transparent vesicles. 7. C. crystallinum. 



i. Capnoides sempervirens (L. ) Borck. 

 Pink Corydalis. (Fig. 1673.) 



Fumaria sfmfierz'irens L. Sp. PI. 700. 1753. 



Capnoides semperz'irens Borck. in Roem. Arch, i: Part 2, 44. 1797. 



Corydalis sempervirens Pers. Syn. 2: 269. 1807. 



Corydalis glauca Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 463. 1814. 



Glabrous, glaucous, erect or ascending, i-2 high, freely 

 branching. Lower leaves i'-4' long, short- petioled, the 

 upper nearly sessile, pinnately decompound, the primary di- 

 visions distant, the ultimate segments obovate or cuneate, 

 toothed or entire, obtuse, often mucronulate; flowers numer- 

 ous, panicled, borne in cymose clusters at the ends of the 

 branches, 5"-8" long, pink with a yellow tip; spur rounded, 

 about \" long; capsules narrowly linear, erect, i / -2 / long, 

 nodose when mature; seeds shining, minutely reticulated. 



In rocky places, Nova Scotia to the Canadian Rocky Moun- 

 tains, south to North Carolina and Minnesota. Also in British 

 Columbia and Alaska. Ascends to 4500 ft. in North Carolina. 

 April-Sept. 



