28 SPRING FLORA 



FUMARIACE-ffi. Fumitory Family. 



Herbs with bland or slightly bitter juice, compound 

 dissected exstipulate leaves and inflorescence in 

 racemes, panicles, spikes or solitary. Flowers irregu- 

 lar. Sepals 2, scale-like. Petals 4, in 2 pairs, more or 

 less united. Stamens 6, diadelphous. opposite the 

 larger petals. Ovary 1-celled and 1-seeded, or several- 

 seeded with 2 parietal placentae. (Some writers have 

 united this family with Papaveraceae.) 



Corolla 2-spurred at base 1. Diceutra 



Corolla 1-spurred at base. 



Fruit linear or oblong; dehiscent 2. Corydalis 



Fruit globose or nearly so; indehiscent 3. Fumaria 



1. DICENTRA. (Bicuculla.) Dutchman's Breeches. 



Glabrous perennial herbs from a crown of small grain-like 

 bodies that in our species are borne on the summit of the 

 fusiform fleshy root. Inflorescence solitary, racemose or 

 paniculate. Flowers white or pink, flattened and heart- 

 shaped; the outer pair of petals spurred and spreading, much 

 longer than the clawed and erect inner pair, the petals of 

 which slightly cohere at apex. Filaments dilated. Pla- 

 centae 2. 



1. D. uniflora Kellogg. Squirrel Corn; Bleeding Heart. Leaf 

 usually 1, basal; its blade 1-2 inches long, triangular in out- 

 line, pinnately 3-7-divided, each segment pinnatifid into a few 

 linear-oblong or spatulate lobes. Scape weak, 2-3-bracted, 

 bearing a single flesh -colored flower. % inch long, which is 

 often hidden among dead leaves. March -April. In rich soil on 

 mountain sides. 



2. CORYDALIS. (Capnoides.) Corydal. 



Glaucous leafy-stemmed more or less succulent herbs, with 

 decompound leaves. Inflorescence racemose. Flowers yellow, 

 or pink with yellow tips. Corolla deciduous, one petal of the 

 outer pair spurred at base; the inner pair narrow, keeled at 

 back. Fruit many-seeded. 



1. C. aurea Willd. (Capnoides aurea (Willd.) Kuntze.) 

 Golden Corydal. Winter annual or biennial. Stems hollow, 

 usually spreading, the size varying greatly with place of 

 growth. Flowers few. golden-yellow. Pod spreading or 

 nodding; distinctly torulose, at least after drying. On exposed 

 banks, sometimes among rocks, or tangled among shrubs along 

 mountain streams. April-June. 



3. FUMARIA. Fumitory. 



Annuals, with weak and much branched stems and finely 

 dissected compound leaves. Racemes rather long. Flowers 

 pink-purple with 4 erect-connivent petals, much as in Cory- 

 dalis. Fruit 1-seeded. 



