Genus 



FUiMEWORT FAMILY, 



3. Bicuculla eximia (Ker) Millsp. Wild 

 Bleeding-heart. Fig. 1987. 



Fumaria eximia Ker, Bot. Reg. i : pi. so. 1815. 

 Diclytra eximia DC. Syst. 2: 109. 1821. 

 Dicentra eximia Torr. Fl. N. Y. i : 46. 1843. 

 Bicuculla eximia Millsp. Bull. West Va. Agric. Exp. Sta. 

 2 : 327. 1892. 



Glabrous, somewhat glaucous, weak, io'-2° high; 

 rootstock scaly. Leaves all basal, larger than those 

 of the other eastern species, ternately parted, the 

 divisions stalked, finely pinnatilid into oblong or 

 ovate segments; scape slender, about equalling the 

 leaves; raceme compound; ilowers clustered in 

 cymes, slender-pedicelled, pink, nodding, 8"-io" long, 

 2,"-a" broad at the base ; spurs short, rounded, in- 

 curved; inner petals with projecting crests. 



In rocky places, western New York, south to Georgia 

 and Tennessee along the Alleghanies. Turkey-corn. 

 Stagger-weed. May-Sept. 



2. ADLUMIA Raf. Med. Rep. (II.) 5: 

 352. 1808. 



A glabrous climbing biennial vine, with decompound leaves. Petals 4, all permanently 

 united into a narrowly ovate cordate persistent spongy corolla, 4-lobed at the apex. Stamens 

 6, monadelphous below, diadelphous above, adherent to the petals. Stigmas 2-crested. Cap- 

 sule oblong, included in the persistent corolla. Seeds crestless. Closely related to certain 

 Asiatic species of Bicuculla. [In honor of John Adlum, a gardener of Washington.] 



A monotypic genus of eastern North America. 



I. Adlumia f ungosa (Ait.) Greene. Climbing 

 Fumitory. Fig. 1988. 



Fumaria fungosa Ait. Hort. Kew. 3: i. 1789. 

 Adlumia cirrhosa Raf. Med. Rep. (II.) 5; 352. 1808. 

 A. fungosa Greene; B.S.P. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 3. 1888. 



Weak, slender, climbing over other plants by its 

 slender petioles. Leaves 2-3-pinnate, the primary 

 divisions distant, the second more approximate, all 

 slender-stalked ; ultimate segments lobed or entire, 

 very thin, ovate or cuneate, pale beneath ; flowers 

 numerous in axillary drooping cymes, S"-/' long, 3 " 

 broad at the base, narrowly ovate, greenish purple; 

 capsule 2-valved, few-seeded. 



In moist woods and thickets. New Brunswick to On- 

 tario and Michigan, south to North Carolina and Ten- 



Pi ^l^Wy^ '\ 2 nessee. Recorded from Kansas. Mountain-fringe. 



M ^fffiW ^^ ^ Alleghany-, canary- or cypress-vine. Fairy-creeper. 



'v %!r^ Alleghany- or wood-fringe. June-Oct. 



3. CAPNOIDES [Tourn.] Adans. Fam. PI. 2: 431. 

 [Neckeria Scop. Introd. 313. I777-] 

 [CoRYDALis Medic. Phil. Bot. 96. 1789-] 

 Erect or climbing herbs, with basal and cauline decompound leaves, and racemose flow- 

 ers, terminal, or opposite the petioles. Sepals 2, small. Corolla irregular, deciduous ; petals 

 4 erect-connivent one of the outer pairs spurred at the base, the interior ones narrow, keeled 

 on the back. Stamens 6, in 2 sets, opposite the outer petals. Placentae 2 ; style entire, di- 

 lated or lohed, persistent. Capsule linear or oblong, 2-valved. 

 sion to the smoke-like odor of some species, as in Fumaria.] 



About no species, natives of the north temperate zone and 

 Fumaria senipervirens L. 

 Stems tall ; flowers pink with yellow tips. 

 Stems low, diffuse or ascending ; flowers yellow. 



Flowers 3"-4" long ; spur short. , , . ,. 



Seeds sharp-margined, wrinkled ; pods drooping or spreading. 

 Seeds blunt-margined, smooth, shining; pods ascending. 

 Flowers 6"-8" long ; spur conspicuous. 



^°'^Selds°°smooth or obscurely reticulated ; pods spreading, ascending or pendulous. 



1763. 



[Greek, smoke-like, in allu- 

 South Africa. Type species : 



1. C. senipervirens. 



2. C. fiavuhim. 



3. C. micranthum. 



