282 BOTANY AND PHARMACOGNOSY. 



To this family belong a number of other plants which contain 

 principles similar to or identical with those found in Sanguinaria 

 and Chelidonium, and of these the following are common in the 

 United States: Yellow or celandine poppy (Stylophoriim diphyl- 

 liim) and the Dutchman's breeches (Bicuculla Cucullaria) . 



The alkaloid protopine (fumarine) is found in the following 

 plants of this family: Sanguinaria canadensis; Chelidonium 

 majtis; Stylophonnn diphyllum; Eschscholtsia californica; Glan- 



FlG. 148. A group of transplanted bloodroot plants {Sanguinaria canadensis) show- 

 ing i-flowered scapes, and the palmately veined and lobed leaves. 



cimn cornicnlatuui of Middle Europe; Bicuculla Cucullaria; Ad- 

 lumia fungosa, the climbing fumitory of the United States and 

 Canada; Fumaria officinalis, the fumitory of Europe, which is 

 naturalized in the United States and Canada ; Bocconia cordata 

 of China and Japan, and B. frutescens of the West Indies, Mexico 

 and Paraguay. 



The tubers of squirrel corn or corydalis {Bicuculla canadensis) 

 contain the alkaloid corydaline. 



