12 Fumitory (FumariacecB). [No. 3 



No. 3.— Family FUMARlACE^E. (Fumitory Fam.) 

 Genus Adlumia, Raf. 



From the name of John Adlum, a cultivator of the vine in Washington, D. C. 



Fig. 5. — Mountain-Fringe. Climbing Fumitory. A. fungbsa 

 (Ait.), Green. A. cirrhbsa, Raf. 



Flowers, white or purplish, drooping, irregular, very numer- 

 ous, in clusters. Petals, four, united in two pairs, the 

 outer pair with spreading tips, the inner pair with the 

 tips crested and joining over the stigma. Corolla, 

 flattened, egg-shape, two-lipped at the summit, at 

 the base somewhat heart-shaped. Sepals, two, 

 minute, scale-like. Stamens, six, the lower parts of 

 the filaments united into a tube which is joined to 

 the corolla, the upper parts arranged in two sets. 

 Style, slender. Stigma, two-crested. Seed-case, small, 

 free, one-celled, four- to eight-seeded. June, Oc- 

 tober. 



Leaves, twice compound, dividing in threes, alternate, 

 without stipules. Leaflets, delicate, smooth, with 

 their edges two- to three-lobed. 



Fruit, oblong, four- to eight-seeded. Seeds, shining, 

 kidney-shape. A capsule. 



Found, in damp woods and over rocky hills from Canada 

 to North Carolina, and westward. Often cultivated 

 for ornament. 



A delicate herbaceous vine, with watery and slightly 

 bitter juice ; a biennial, eight to fifteen feet in length ; 

 climbing extensively by help of its slender, tendril-like 

 leaf-stems. 



