22 ADDISONIA 
though its delicate beauty and grace entitle it to a place in every 
“well considered garden” along with the “ bleeding heart,” that old- 
time favorite. 
The plants from which this illustration was made have been 
grown for many years in my garden from seeds obtained at Buckhill 
Falls, Pennsylvania, and seem to endure our hot summers and 
violent thunder storms and full sunshine, as well as strong winds. 
Furthermore it is an annual, reproducing itself readily from seed, 
and may readily be transplanted in early spring. 
The climbing fumitory is a delicate glabrous plant with pale- 
green foliage; its three-parted, bipinnate leaves are divided into 
slender distant segments with cuneate toothed leaflets, which are 
in in texture, with the petioles twisting around other plants, thus 
enabling it to reach to a height of eight to ten feet, making a tangle 
sometimes quite dense in growth he stems are weak and brittle, 
of a pale red color, and seldom more than one-eighth of an inch in 
diameter. The flowers are borne in loose, axillary, drooping clus- 
ters, and are pale pink in color and slender in form. Each blossom 
is borne on a short curved stalk and is about three-fourths of an 
inch long by less than a quarter of an inch wide at base, tapering 
to the slightly opened mouth where the two united petals spread 
apart and show the stamens within. The sepals consist of two 
small bracts which usually fall off as the flower develops, as in many 
other members of the poppy family. The stamens are six in number, 
united below, diadelphous above and more or less adherent to the 
petals. The pods about equal the flowers in length, are pale green 
and slender, split in half when ripe and produce about ten to twelve 
small, glossy-black seeds which mature from June to October. 
EvizaBpetu G. BRITTON. 
EXPLANATION oF Puats. Fig. 1.—Flowering stem. Fig. 2.—Flower, sepals 
absent, X 3. Fig, 3—Sepal, X 8 Fig. 4.—Pod, X 3. Fig. 5.—Seed, X 3. 
