POPPY FAMILY. Papaveraceas. 



alights on the flower, forces its head between the inner 

 petals, and gathers onl}^ the pollen with its front feet ! 

 Such a pendulous position as the flower compels is ex- 

 tremely difficult for insects other than bees to maintain. 

 Butterflies therefore visit the flower with less success 

 than bumblebees. Pieris rapce (Cabbage butterfly, white), 

 Papilio ajax (buff and black, crimson spots), and Danais 

 archippus (the Monarch, black-and-tan) are common 

 visitors ; so are the little long-tongued flies of the tribe 

 Boinhylius (the beelike flies). Flowering stem 5-9 inches 

 high. In thin woodlands and on rocky slopes from N. 

 Eng., south to N. Car,, and west to Neb., S. Dak., and 

 Mo. The name from the Greek, meaning twice-spurred. 



^ . . ^ A similar species with more attenuate 



Squirrel Corn ^ , . . , , . . , 



Dicentra flowers, white or greenish white tinted 



Canadensis with magenta-pink, 4-8 on the stalk, all 

 White, very short-stemmed, and narrow at the 



magenta=pink j^ slightly fragrant. 6-12 inches high, 

 May-June ,. f , • t^^i ^ i 



the roots oearing many little tubers re- 

 sembling j'ellow peas, hence the common name. Rich 

 woodlands, from Me., south along the mountains to Va., 

 and west to Minn. , Neb. , and Mo. 



Dicentra exima is a tall rare species, with less finely 

 cut leaves, large and smooth, and with narrow magenta- 

 pink flowers. Sometimes cultivated. 1-2 feet high. 

 Rocky slopes. Western N. Y., south to Ga. and Tenn., 

 along the mountains. 



PIC d V ^^^^^ is another conspicuously delicate 

 Corydalis wild flower of spring. Its relationship 



gJauca with Dicentra is manifested by the pale 



Pale pink foliage and the attenuated sacklike blos- 



ay-August ^^^^^ . ^^^ ^^^^^ England it seems almost to 

 supplant Dutchman's Breeches. The pale or whitish 

 green leaves are compound, and cut into ornamental 

 segments which are generally three-lobed. The pale 

 crimson-pink, or sometimes magenta-pink, slightly 

 curved corolla is half an inch or more long, somewhat 

 round at the top (which is really the bottom), and two- 

 flanged at the bottom or mouth, w^hich is golden yellow. 

 The leaves are scattered alternately on the plant-stem at 

 the branching summit of which are groups of rarely 

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