FUMITORY FAMILY. Fumariaceae. 



Climbing A beautiful and delicate vine climbing 



Fumitory, or and trailing over thickets or shrubbery, 

 Mountain with an attenuate, sack-shaped white 



Adiwmia flower tinted greenish and magenta-pink, 



fungosa or very pale pink, in drooping clusters. 



White, tinted The leaves are compound, smooth, prettily 

 magenta- pink subdivided, mostly three-lobed, and the 

 June-October vine climbs by mea ns of their slender 

 stems. The weak and slender stem 8-12 feet long. In 

 moist situations, woods and 1 thickets, from N. Eng., west 

 to Wis. and eastern Kan., and south to N. Car., among 

 the mountains. Named for John Adlum, of Washington, 

 a horticulturist, first interested in the cultivation of 

 grapes in this country. 



This is one of the daintiest wild flowers 

 Breeches ^ ^ ne s P r i n S' common in southern New 



Dicentra York, but rare or entirely absent in north- 



Cucullaria eastern New England. It occurs fre- 

 White, quently in Vermont, but is quite unknown 



in the u P lands of New Hampshire. The 

 plant is characterized by a feathery com- 

 pound leaf, long-stemmed and proceeding from the root, 

 thin, grayish (almost sage) green in tint, blue and paler 

 beneath ; the leaflets are finely slashed and are distrib- 

 uted trifoliately, i. e. , in three parts. The flowering 

 stalk also proceeds from the root, and bears 4-8, rarely 

 more, nodding white flowers, of four petals joined in 

 pairs and forming, two of them, a double, two-spurred, 

 somewhat heart-shaped sack, the other two, within the 

 sack, very small, narrow, and protectingly adjusted over 

 the slightly protruding stamens. The spurs are stained 

 with light yellow. The flower is cross-fertilized mostly 

 by the agency of the early bumblebees (Bombus separa- 

 tus, B. virginicus, B. vagans, and B. pennsylvanicus). 

 Prof. Robertson (see Botanical Gazette, vol. 14, p. 120) 

 explains in detail the character of the flower and its vis- 

 iting insects. Honeybees collect only pollen ; their 

 tongues are too short to reach the nectar which is se- 

 creted in two long processes of the middle stamens ; the 

 proboscis of the bumblebee, 8 mm. long, reaches it, that 

 of the honeybee, 6 mm., can not. The honeybee 

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