194 THE LAUREL FAMILY. 



well known. While.still its leaves are used to make a wholesome sort of tea, 

 however, it must be acknowledged that most of its former glamour has 

 departed and the sassafras is now simply recognised as containing " a mild 

 aromatic stimulant." 



THE POPPY FAfllLY. 



PapaverdcecE. 



A group of herbs with coloured, or milky sap, simple or compound 

 alternate leaves ; and which bear perfect, regular or irregular flowers 

 solitary, or in clustered inflorescejices. 



CLiriBlNQ FUMITORY. ALLEGHANY VINE. HOUNTAIN 



FRINGE. 



A dliini ia fungbsa . 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Poppy. GreenisJi piLrplc. Scentless. Tennessee and North Carolina June-October. 



northward. 



Flowers : growing in drooping, axillary cymes. Sepals : two. Petals : four, 

 united into a long cordate persistent corolla, four lobed at the apex ; persistent. 

 Stajuens: six, monadelphous below, diadelphous above. Capsule: oblong, within 

 the corolla. Leaves: biphmately divided, the leaflets small; obovate and irregu- 

 larly lobed, or entire, thin; smooth. A slender vine climbing by means of its 

 tendril-like petioles. 



We notice something very neat and dainty about both the flowers and 

 foliage of this vine, as it is seen climbing boldly through moist thickets and 

 woods. This, however, it does not begin to do until the second year of its 

 growth when it is considerably changed in appearance from its more youth- 

 ful days. And later when the capsules mature it is interesting to pull them 

 out from within the withered corolla by projections at their bases and to 

 find further that they are filled with tiny, shining black seeds. The genus 

 is one that is monotypic. 



WILD BLEEDING HEART. {Plate LVIII) 



BicuciiUa c.ximia. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Poppy. Deep pink. Scentless. Tetinessee to New York. April-October. 



Flowers : irregular ; clustered loosely in compound racemes and nodding from 

 slender pedicels, bracted at their bases. Sepals : two ; appearing like scales. 

 Corolla : cordate, the four petals in pairs, slightly united, the exterior pair with 

 spurs at the 'base and diverging at the apex ; the inner pair raised on long claws, 



