196 THE POPPY FAMILY. 



coherent above and winged along their backs. Stamens: six, in two sets and fol- 

 lowing the line of the outer petals. Pistil: one. Capsules: projecting a long bit of 

 the slender styl-e. Leaves: all basal with long, smooth petioles; ternately parted, 

 the divisions having stalks and being pinnately divided into ovate or obovate 

 segments which are again lobed, or toothed; thin; glabrous. An erect herb, one 

 to two feet high. 



Forming thick, fern-like clumps in cool places, for often the flowering 

 scapes are shorter than the foliage, we saw under the high rocks which are 

 so conspicuous in the superb gorge near Johnston City in Tennessee a great 

 deal of this interesting plant. Here indeed was its true home, for in the 

 southern Alleghanies it is a native. It was then late in September and 

 while many of the quaint rose-coloured flowers still blossomed, on the same 

 individuals were many capsules beginning to look well filled out and 

 rounded. On every side of us, in fact, were masses of intense green, 

 although.here and there, as a forerunner of the autumn, flecks of brilliant 

 red were tipping the tree tops. Combined with its unique personality that 

 the plant is so constant a bloomer makes it an excellent one for the border 

 in cultivation. 



B. Canadensis, squirrel corn, bears whitish, often purple-tinted and nod- 

 ding flowers which emit a faint fragrance something like that of hyacinths. 

 Their spurs, which are short and rounded, form a deeply cordate base and 

 the foliage, while bearing the marks of the genus, is noticeable from its 

 silvery^ under-bloom. It arises from a cluster of small, yellow tubers look- 

 ing like grains of corn, and these often the people collect. 



B. Cucidlaria, Dutchman's breeches, soldier's cap or white hearts, sends 

 out its exquisite, elfish little flowers in earliest spring. They are white, tinted 

 with pink and show a yellow summit. Because their spurs diverge very 

 widely at the base they can be quickly told from the bloom of the two pre- 

 ceding species. The plant also is shorter than they, seldom being over ten 

 inches high, and is the one most generally found. 



PINK CORYDALIS. 



Capnoides sempervire7is. . 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Fof<py. Rose-pink and yellozv. Scentless. North Carolina April-September. 



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Flowers: growing loosely in racemes at the ends of axillary and terminal shoots. 

 Calyx: with two small sepals. Civolla : irregular, deciduous, with four united 

 petals, one of the outer pair forming at their base a rounded spur, the interior 

 pair, narrow, keeled. Stamens: six, in two sets. Pistil: one. Capsule: erect; 

 linear; projecting a bit of the style. Leaves: the basal and lower stem ones 

 being long petioled; the upper ones nearly sessile; pinnately decompound; the 

 leaflets with mostly obovate segments, lobed or entire, thin; light green and 

 glaucous underneath. An ere-ct, much branched and glabrous herb. 



High up in the mountains of North Carolina are found in many places long 



