POPULAR FLORA. 



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9. rUMITOBT FAMILY. Order FUMARIACEiE. 



Tender herbs with a colorless juice, compound alternate leaves, and irregular flowers 

 with only twa small scale-like sepals, a flattened and closed corolla of 4 petals more or less 

 grown together, the two outside ones larger with small spreading tips, the two inner small 



and with spoon-shaped tips stick- 

 ing together face to face over the 

 anthers and stigma : stamens on 

 the receptacle, 6 in two sets or 

 bundles, one before each of the 

 larger petals, or all joined in one 

 tube below. The middle anther 

 of each set is two-celled ; the side 

 ones only one-celled. Pistil one, 

 in the manner of the Poppy fam- 

 ily. Pod ^ne-celled. Bitterish, 

 harmless, plants, with singularly 

 shaped flowers, some of them 

 handsome. We have four gen- 

 era, two of them of only one 

 species each. 



282. Bulb, and, 2S3, leaf and flowers uf Dicentra No I. 

 of the fiOWtir of a Corydal. 283. One of tlie aels of stamens 



2S4. Flower, natoral size. 285, 286. Same, taken to pieces, SS7. Diagrarr 

 united. 



Flower heart-shaped, or with a spiir on each side at the base. 



Petals all permanently united into a slightly heart-shaped (pale flesh-colored) 

 corolla, which dries without falling and encloses the four-seeded 

 pod. A delicate vine climbing by the tendril-like divisions of its 

 thrice-pinnate leaves, (AdUimia) Smoke-Vine. 



Petals less united, readily separated. Pod several-seeded, (Dicentra) Dicentra 



Flower with a projection or spur at the base on one side only. 



Ovary slender, forming a several-seeded pod, ( Cori/dalis) Corydal. 



Ovary and fruit, round, small, one-seeded, not opening, {Fumaria) Fumitory. 



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