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Fumewort Family 



Fumariaceae 



Dutchman's-breeches 



Bicuculla cucullaria (Linnaeus) Millspaugh 



Piute T« 



A rather delicate, smooth and somewhat tufted herbaceous plant from 

 a bulbous, perennial base. Leaves all basal, numerous and slender-stalked. 

 pale beneath, finely divided into many narrow segments. Flowers nodding, 

 fragrant, few or several on a slender stalk which rises above the leaves; 

 each flower about one-half to two-thirds of an inch long, and somewhat 

 broader than long across the spreading basal spurs, white or faintly pink, 

 yellow at the summit; the four petals in two pairs, the outer pair oblong, 

 concave, each with a divergent spur at the base and the tip spreading, the 

 inner pair narrow and minutely crested. Fruit an oblong pod, opening 

 into two parts to the base, when mature. 



In rich woods, Nova Scotia to North Carolina, west to Minnesota, 

 Kansas and Missouri. Flowering in April and May. 



The Squirrel Corn or Turkey Corn (Bicuculla canadensis 

 (Goldie) Millspaugh) is similar, but the spurs of the two outer petals are 

 shorter, rounded and not divergent, the inner pair of petals is conspicu- 

 ously crested and the roots have numerous small tubers. The Wild 

 Bleeding Heart (Bicuculla e x i m i a (Ker) Millspaugh) of the 

 western part of the State has pink flowers. 



Mountain Fringe; Alleghany Vine 



Adlumia fungosa (Aiton) Greene 



Plate 79b 



Stems weak, slender, climbing several feet over other plants by its 

 slender petioles from a biennial root. Leaves two to three-pinnate, the 

 leaflets slender stalked, lobed or entire, very thin, ovate or cuneate, about 

 one-fourth of an inch long and pale beneath. Flowers numerous in axillary 



