POrULAK FLORA. 



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9. FUMITORY FAMILY. Order FUMARIACE^. 



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

 with only two 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 

 antiiers 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 

 ^M V^'li *^^S^^^^"^^Aa °^ each set is two-celled ; the side 



'"^ ^^ ' *■ ■ ' ones only one-celled. Pistil one, 



in the manner of the Poppy fam- 

 ily. Pod one-celled. Bitterish, 

 harmless plants, with singularly 

 shaped flowers, some of them 

 handsome. We have four gen- 

 era, two of them of only one 

 species eacli. 



282. Bulb, and, 283, lefif and flowera of Dicentra No. 1. 284. Flower, nntural size. 285, 286. Same, taken lo piecea. 237. Diagranq 

 of the fiower of a Corytlal. 283. One of the sets of stamens united. 



Flower heart-shaped, or with a spur 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, (Adliimia) Smoke-Vike. 



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, ( Corydalis) Coeydal. 



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



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