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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
Fumariacea or Fumitory Family . — Delicate herbs larely shrubs 
containing milky watery to watery latex. Leaves more or less 
compound. Inflorescence a raceme or spike. Flowers irregular, 
zygomorphic, one or both of the petals of which having a spur. Fruit 
a one-chambered capsule. Seeds albuminous. Idioblasts common. 
Fig. 148. — Transverse sec- 
tion of flower of Poppy. 
(Sayre.) 
Fig. 149. — Gynecium of 
Poppy, with one stamen 
remaining. (Sayre.) 
Fig. 150. — Trans- 
verse section of ovary 
of Poppy. (Sayre.) 
Part used Botanical name Habitat 
Tubers of Dicentra (Bicuculla) 
canadensis 
Bulbs of Dicentra Cucullaria 
Cruciferce or Mustard Family. — Herbs, rarely shrubs, mostly of 
temperate regions. Stem and branches upright or diffuse spreading 
(. Arabis ). Leaves alternate, simple rarely compound, exstipulate, 
entire or toothed, often more or less hairy. Inflorescence at first 
a corymb or shortened raceme, later elongating into a loose raceme. 
Bracts at base rarely reduced, usually absent. Flowers regular— 
rarely irregular (Candytuft) — tetramerous. Sepals four, green, 
equal or two laterals, at times pouched as nectar receptacles. Petals 
four, yellow to white or to pink or purple, cruciform, often divisible 
into claw and blade. Stamens six to four long anteroposterior, 
two short lateral and often with nectar knobs or discs, hence termed 
tetradynamous, insertion hypogynous. Pistil syncarpous bicar- 
pellate, superior, carpels lateral. Ovary one-celled but falsely 
two-celled by a placental replum, style simple, stigma rounded or 
bifid or bilobed. Ovules several, rarely few, attached to marginal 
United States and 
Canada 
Official drug 
Corydalis N.F. 
