FUMITORY FAMILY 



Stamens.— Six in two sets; filaments of each set more or less grown 

 togethSr, curved to conform to the shape of the outer petals; all the anthers 

 tightly pressed together and around the stigma at the union of the tips 

 of the inner petals. 



Ovary. — Long, slender; style slender. 



Capsule. — Several -seeded. 



Although Linnffius possessed dried specimens of Bleeding Heart, 

 the first living plant seen in Europe was sent by Robert Fortune 

 to the London Horticultural Society in 1846, and bloomed on their 

 grounds in May, 1847. Going to China, in 1842, as a repre- 

 sentative of the society, Mr. Fortune selected and sent home 

 many plants; among them Bleeding Heart, Weigela, and the 

 Chusan Daisy, the parent of the present Pompon Chrysanthemum. 



Dicentra spectabilis has certainly proved an acquisition to our 

 garden flora, its beauty is of such rare and unusual type. The 

 long drooping sprays of pendent rose-colored hearts are certainly 

 unique among floral forms. 



The plant, too, is hardy and, best of all, an early bloomer. The 

 blooming spray has little value as a cut flower, but it adorns the 

 garden walk wondrously. The gardepers have meddled very 

 little with the plant except to feed it generously and it remains a 

 primitive. It can be forced, but this is scarcely worth while. 



DICENTRA. SQUIRREL CORN 



Dicentra canadensis. 



Root. — Fibrous, with subterranean shoots bearing scattered tubers, 

 resembling yellow peas. 



Leaves. — Gray-green, radical, with slender petioles, ternately com- 

 pound and dissected; lobes linear. 



Flowers. — Four to ten on a slender scape, odd shaped, white tinged 

 with rose, slightly fragrant. 



Calyx. — ^Two small and scale-like sepals. 



Corolla. — Heart-shaped; spurs very short and rounded; the four 

 petals in two pairs; the crest of the inner petals conspicuous, projecting. 



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