POPULAR FLORA. 



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9. FUMITORY FAMILY. Order FUMARIACE^E. 



Tender herbs with a colorless juice, compound alternate leaves, and irregular flowers 

 with only two small scale-like sepals, a ilattened and closed corolla of 4 petals more or less 

 grown together, the two outside ones larger with small spreading tips, the two inner small 



and with spoon-shaped tips stick- 

 ing torrether face to face over the 

 anthers and stigma : stamens on 

 the receptacle, 6 in two sets or 

 bundles, one before each of the 

 larger petals, or all joined in one 

 tube below. The middle anther 

 of each set is two-celled ; the side 

 ones only one-celled. Pistil one, 

 in the manner of the Poppy fam- 

 ily. Pod one-celled. Bitterish, 

 harmless plants, with singularly 

 shaped flowers, some of them 

 handsome. We have four gen- 



era, two of them 

 species each. 



of only one 



282. Eiilh, ajul, 283, leif and flowers uf Dicentra No 1. 284. Flower, natural size. 285, 286. Same, taken to pieces. 287. Diagram 

 of the fiOwer of a Corydal. USi. One of the sets of slarneiis united. 



Flower hcart-sh.iped, or with a spur on each side at the base. 



Petals all permanently united into a slightly heart-shaped (pale flesh-colored) 

 corolla, which dries without falling and encloses the four-seeded 

 pod. A delicate vine climbing by the tendril-like divisions of its 

 thrice-pinnate leaves, {Adlkmia) Smoke- Vine. 



Petals less united, readily separated. Pod several-seeded, {Dicentra) Dicentra 



Flower with a projection or spur at the base on one side only. 



Ovary sleniler, forming a several-seeded pod, ( Corydnlis) Corydal. 



Ovary and fruit, round, small, one-seeded, not opening, (Fummia) Fumitory. 



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