60 fcmaeiacejE. (fumitory familt.) 



1. C. mIjcs, L. (Celandine.) "Waste grounds near dwellings. May- 

 Aug. (Adv. from Eu.) 



5. SANGUINARIA, Dill. Blood-root. 



Sepals 2. Petals 8 - 12, spatulate-oblong, the inner narrower. Stamens 

 about 24. Style short; stigma 2-grooved. Pod oblong, turgid, 1-celled, 2- 

 valved. Seeds with a large crest. — A low perennial, with thick prostrate 

 rootstocks, surcharged with red-orange acrid juice, sending up in earliest 

 spring a rounded palmate-lobed leaf, and a 1-flowered naked scape. Flower 

 white, handsome, the bud erect, the petals not crumpled. (Name from the 

 color of the juice. ) 



1. S. Canadensis, L. — Open rich woods ; common. April, May. 



6. GLAtrCIUM, Tourn. Hokn-Poppt. 



Sepals 2. Petals 4. Style none: stigma 2-lobed or 2-horned. Pod very 

 long and linear, completely 2-celled by a spongy false partition ; seeds crestless. 

 — Annuals or biennials, with saffron-colored juice, clasping leaves, and solitary 

 yellow flowers. (The Greek name, yXavKwv, from the glaucous foliage.) 



1. G. LUTEUji, Scop. Lower leaves pinnatifid; upper ones sinuate-lobed 

 and toothed, cordate-clasping; pods rough, (6'- 10' long). — Waste places S. 

 E. New England, Maryland, and Virginia; not common. (Adv. from Eu.) 



Okdee 9. FUMARIACEjE. (Fumitory Family.) 



Delicate smooth herhs, with watery juice, compound dissected leaves, ir- 

 regular flowers, with 4 somewhat united petals, 6 diadelphous stamens, and 

 2-merous pods and seeds like those of the Poppy Family. — Sepals 2, small 

 and scale-like. Corolla flattened, closed ; the 4 petals in two pairs ; the 

 outer with spreading tips, and one or both of them spurred or saccate at 

 the base ; the inner pair narrower, and with their callous crested tips united 

 over the stigma. Stamens in two sets of 3 each, placed opposite the larger 

 petals, hypogynous ; their filaments often united ; the middle anther of 

 each set 2-celled, the lateral ones 1-celled. Pod 1-celled, either 1-seeded 

 and indeliiscent, or several-seeded with 2 parietal placenta;. — Leaves usu- 

 ally alternate, without stipules. (Slightly bitter, innocent plants.) 



* Pod slender : the 2 valves separatinj from the persistent filiform placentiE. 



1. Adlumla. Corolla heart-shaped, persistent ; petals all united. Seeds crestless. 



2. Dicentra. Corolla heart-shaped or 2-spurred at the base. Seeds crested. 



3. Corydalis. Corolla 1-spurred at the base. Seeds crested or arilled. 



» * Pod fleshy, indehiscent, globular, 1-seeded. 



4. Fumaria. Corolla l-spurred at the base. Seed crestless. 



1. ADLUMIA, Eaf. Climbing Fumitort. 



Petals all permanently united in a cordate-ovate corolla, becoming spongy- 

 cellular and persistent, enclosing the small, few-seeded pod. Seeds not crested. 



