24 CRVcatSLM. 



Shady rooks. April — August. Stem 8 to 12 incuts high, with finely divided 

 leaves. Flowers bright yellow and showy. Pbds 1-iuch long. 



2. C. glauca, Pursh. Pale Gorydalu. 



Stem erect, branched : leaves glaucous, decompound : segments cuneate, tried; 

 bracts oblong, acute, shorter than the pedieals; spur short and rounded ; pods 

 eract, slender, elongated ; seeds with a small entire crest. 



Rocky woods: common. May— July. Stem 1 to 2 feet high. Leaves 1 to 3 

 inches long: the lower ones on long petioles. Flowers whitish, tinged waa 

 yellow, and tlesh colcr. 



3. ADLUMIA. Raf. Climbing Fumitory. 



In honor of Mr. John Adlum. a distinguished cultivator of the vine. 



Sepals 2, minute. Petals 4, united in a spongy niono- 

 petalous corolla, persistent, and with 2 protuberances at the 

 base; 4-lobed at the apex. Pod 2-valved, few seeded. — 

 A climbing biennial vine, with 2-pihnate leaves, cut-lobsd 

 delicate leaflets^ and numerous panicles of drooling flowers. 



A. CIRRHOSA, Raf. Alleghany Vine. Mountain Fringe. 



Woods and rocky hills. July — Sept. A slender climber 8 to 15 feet long. 

 Leaves pinnately divided: the midrib t'.vining like a tendril. Flou-ers in compound 

 axillary racemes, pale violet or nearly white. 



FUMARIA. Linn. Fumitory. 



Lat. fumus, smoke: from its disagreeable smell. 



Sepals 2, caducous. Petals 4, unequal, one of them 

 spurred at the base. Filaments in 2 sets, each with 3 

 anthers. Fruit small, indehiscent, globular, 1-seeded. — 

 Branched annual*, with finely dissected compound leaves, and 

 disc racemes or spikes. 



F. OFFICTaKaLIS, L. Common Fumitory. 



Ltcvcs bi-pinnate. leaflets lanceolate, cut into linear segments; raceme loo« ; 

 sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, shorter than the corolla. 



Near cultivated grounds. May — July. Stem 10 to 15 inches high. Flowers 

 rose-colored. Introduced from Europe. 



Order 12. CRUGIFERJE. 



Herbs with a ptinger.t watery juvy\ often accompanied by an etherial oil; end 

 cruciform tctradynamous flowers: leaves alternate: fruit a siliqiie or rilicle. 

 Flower? yellow or white, rarely purple or red : without bracts, generally in 

 racemes. Sepals 4. deciduous. Petals i. regular, their claws inserted into the 

 receptacle, placed opposite each other in pairs, their spreading limbs forming a 

 cross. Stamens 6, of which 2 on opposite sides are shorter, solitary, and opposite 

 the lateral sepals. Ovary, superior, 1-celled: stigmas 2. Tod usually 2-celled, 

 2-valved, 1 or many-seeded, indehiscent, or opening by the valves. Seeds attached 

 In a single row, by a cord to each of the placenta*, generally pendulous, withcut 

 albuiasu. Emsbto with the 2 cotyledons variously folded on the radicle. 



