FUMARIACEAE (FUMITORY FAMILY) 417 



* CproUa bigibbous or 2-8purred, the 2 outer petals alike ; pod several-seeded. 



1. Adlumia. Petals united into a spongy persistent subcordate corolla. Seeds crestless. 



2. Dicentra. Corolla oordate or 2-8purred at base, less united. Seeds crested. 



* * Corolla with but one petal spurred at base, deciduous. 



3. Corydalis. Pod with few to many crested or ariled seeds. 



4. Fumaria. Fruit a globular l-seeded nutlet. Seed crestless. 



1. ADLtrMIA Raf. Climbing Fumitory 



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

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

 Stigma 2-crested. Filaments monadelphous below in a tube which is adherent 

 to the corolla, diadelphous at the summit. — A climbing biennial, with thrice- 

 pinnate leaves, cut-lobed delicate leaflets, and ample panicles of drooping white 

 or purplish flowers. (Dedicated to Major J. Adlmn, amateur botanist.) 



1. A. fungdsa (Ait.) Greene. — Wet or recently burned woods; e. Que. to 

 Ont., Wise, and s. in the mts. to N. C. June-Oct. (A. cirrhosa Raf.) — 

 Handsome delicate vine climbing by the slender young leaf-stalks over high 

 pushes ; often cultivated, and frequently escaping. 



2. DIC:i;NTRA Bemh. 



Petals slightly cohering into a heart-shaped or 2-spurred corolla, either de- 

 ciduous or witherinji^ersistent. Stigma 2-crested and sometimes 2-horned. 

 Filaments slightly ifcited into two sets. Pod 10-20-seeded. Seeds crested. — 

 Low stemless peffifinials (as to our wild species) with ternately compound and 

 dissected leaves^^and racemose nodding flowers. Pedicels 2-bracted. (Name 

 from 5(s, twice, mid K^vrpov, a spar ; — accidentally printed Diclttra in the first 

 Instance, which by an erroneous conjecture was changed afterwards into 

 DiELTTRA.) BiKUKULLA Adans. BicucuLLA Millsp. 



* Raceme simple, few-flowered. 



1. D. CucuUllria (L.) Bemh. (Dptchman's Breeches.) Scape and slen- 

 der-petioled leaves from a sort of granulate bulb ; lobes of leaves linear ; corolla 

 with 2 divergent spurs longer than the pedicel ; crest of the inner petals minute. 

 {Bicuculla Millsp.) — Rich woods, N. S. to L. Huron and Minn., s. to N. C. 

 and Mo. — A very delicate plant, sending up in early spring, from the cluster 

 of grain-like tubers crowded together in the form of a scaly bulb, the finely cut 

 leaves and the slender scape, bearing 4-10 pretty, but odd, white flowers tipped 

 with cream-color. 



2. D. canadensis (Goldie) Walp. (Squirrel Corn.) Subterranean shoots 

 bearing scattered grain-like tubers (resembling peas or grains of Indian corn, 

 yellow); leaves as in no. 1 ; corolla merely heart-shaped, the spurs very short and 

 rounded ; crest of the inner petals conspicuous, projecting. {Bicuculla Millsp.) 

 — Rich woods, N. S. to Ont. and Minn., s. to Va., Ky., and Mo. Apr., May. — 

 Flowers greenish white tinged with rose, with the fragrance of hyacinths. 



* * Racemes compound, clustered. 



3. D. eximia (Ker) Torr. Subterranean shoots scaly ; divisions and lobes 

 of the leaves broadly oblong ; corolla oblong, 2-saccate at the base ; crest' of the 

 inner petals projecting. (^Bicuculla Millsp.) — Rocks, w. N. Y., rare, and 

 south w. along the Alleghenies. May-Aug. — Coarser-leaved than the others; 

 scapes 1.5-2.5 dm. high. 



3. CORYDALIS [Dill.] Medic. 



Corolla 1-spurred at the base (on the upper side), deciduous. Style per- 

 sistent. Pod many-seeded. Seeds crested or ariled. Flowers in racemes. 

 Our species are biennial, leafy-stemmed, and pale or glaucous. (The ancient 

 Greek name for the crested lark.) Capnoides Adans. Capnodes Ktze. 



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