POPULAR FLORA. 
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9. FUMITORY FAMILY. Order FUMARIACEiE. 
Tender herbs with a colorless juice, compound alternate leaves, and irregular flowers 
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 
anthers 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 
of 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 each. 
282. Bulb, and, 283, leaf and flowers of Dicentra No. 1. 284. Flower, natural size. 285, 286. Same, taken to pieces. 287. Diagram 
of the f.ower of a Corydal. 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, ( Adlinnia ) Smoke-Vine. 
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) Corydal. 
Ovary and fruit, round, small, one-seeded, not opening, ( Fumaria) Fumitory. 
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