26 FUMARIACE^E. (FUMITORY FAMILY.) 



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5. GliAtrCIUXII, Tourn. HoRN-PorrY. 



Sepals 2. Petals 4. Stamens indefinite. Style none : stigma 2-lobed or 2- 

 horned. Pod veiy long and linear, completely 2-celled by a spongy false par 

 tition, in which the crestless seeds are partly immersed. Annuals or biennials, 

 with saffron-colored juice, clasping leaves, and solitary yellow flowers. (The 

 Greek name, yXavKiov, from the glaucous foliage.) 



1. r. LtiTEUM, Scop. Glaucous ; lower leaves pinnatifid ; upper ones sin- 

 uate-lobed and toothed, cordate-clasping; pods rough (6' -10' long). Waste 

 places, Maryland and Virginia ; not common. (Adv. from Eu.) 



6. SANGUINARIA, Dill. BLOOD-ROOT. 



Sepals 2. Petals 8-12, spatulate-oblong, the inner narrower. Stamens 

 about 24. Style short : stigma 2-grooved. Pod oblong, turgid, 1 -celled, 2- 

 valved. Seeds with a large crest. A low perennial, with thick prostrate root- 

 stocks, surcharged with red-orange acrid juice, sending up in earliest spring a 

 rounded palmate-lobed leaf, and a 1 -flowered naked scape. Flower white, hand- 

 some. (Name from the color of the juice.) 



1. S. CanadensiS, L. Open rich woods ; common. April, May. 



ESCHSCHOLTZIA CALIFORNIA, and E. DOUGLASII, now common orna- 

 mental annuals in the gardens, are curious Papaveraceous plants from Califor- 

 nia and Oregon. Their juice is colorless, but with the odor of muriatic acid. 



ORDER 11. FUMARIACE^E. (FUMITORY FAMILY.) 



Delicate smooth herbs, with watery juice, compound dissected leaves, irregu- 

 lar flowers, with 4 somewhat united petals, 6 diadelphous stamens, and pods 

 and seeds like those of the Poppy Family. Sepals 2, small and scale-like. 

 Corolla flattened, closed ; the 4 petals in two pairs ; the outer with spread- 

 ing tips, and one or both of them spurred or saccate at the base ; the inner 

 pair narrower, and with their callous crested tips united over the stigma. 

 Stamens in two sets of 3 each, placed opposite the larger petals, hypogy- 

 nous ; their filaments often united ; the middle anther of each set 2-celled, 

 the lateral ones 1-celled. Stigma flattened at right angles with the ovary. 

 Pod 1-celled, either 1 seeded and indehiscent, or several-seeded with 2 pa- 

 rietal placentse. Leaves usually alternate, without stipules. (Slighily 

 bitter, innocent plants.) 



Synopsis. 



* Pod slender : the 2 valves separating from the persistent filiform placentae, 



1. ADLUMIA. Corolla heart-shaped, persistent ; petals united. Seeds crestless. 



2. DICENTBA. Corolla heart-shaped or 2-spurred at the base. Seeds crested. 

 8. CORYDALIS. Corolla 1-spurred at the base. Seeds crested. . 



* * Pod fleshy, indehiscent, globular, 1-seeded. 

 4. FUMARIA. Corolla 1-spnrred at the base Seed creBtless. 



