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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 



Fumariacea or Fumitory Family. Delicate herbs rarely shrubs 

 containing milky watery to watery latex. Leaves more or less 

 compound. Inflorescence a raceme or spike. Flowers irregular, 

 zygomprphic, one or both of the petals of which having a spur. 

 Fruit a one-chambered capsule. Seeds albuminous. Idioblasts 

 common. 



FIG. 191. Transverse 

 section of flower of 

 Poppy. (Sayre.) 



PIG. 192. Gyne- 

 cium of Poppy, with 

 one stamen remaining. 

 (Sayre.) 



PIG. 193. Trans- 

 verse section of ovary 

 of Poppy. (Sayre.) 



Habitat 



United-Spates and 

 Canada \ 



Official drug Part used Botanical name 



f Tubers of Dicentra (Bicuculla) 

 Corydalis N.F. < canadensis 



i Bulbs of Dicentra Cucullaria 



Crucifera or Mustard Family. Herbs, rarely shrubs, -mostly of 

 temperate regions. Stem and branches upright or diffuse spreading 

 (Arabis). Leaves alternate, simple rarely compound, exstipulate, 

 entire or toothed, often more or less hairy. Inflorescence at first 

 a corymb or shortened raceme, later elongating into a loose raceme. 

 Bracts at base rarely reduced, usually absent. Flowers regular 

 rarely irregular (Candytuft) tetramerous. Sepals four, green, 

 equal or two laterals, at times pouched as nectar receptacles. Petals 

 four, yellow to white or to pink or purple, cruciform, often divisible 

 into claw and blade. Stamens six to four long anteroposterior, 

 two short lateral and often with nectar knobs or discs, hence termed 

 tetradynamous, insertion hypogynous. Pistil syncarpous bicar- 

 pellate, superior, carpels lateral. Ovary one-celled but . falsely 

 two-celled by a placental replum, style simple, stigma rounded or 

 bifid or bilobed. Ovules several, rarely few, attached to marginal 



