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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
Fumariacece or Fumitory Family .—Delicate herbs rarely 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. 191.—Transverse 
section of flower of 
Poppy. (Sayre.) 
Fig. 192. —Gyne- 
cium of Poppy, with 
one stamen remaining. 
(Sayre.) 
Fig. 193. —Trans¬ 
verse section of ovary 
of Poppy. (Sayre.) 
Official drug Part used Botanical name Habitat 
f Tubers of Dicentra (Bicuculla) 
Corydalis N.F. ) canadensis 
^ Bulbs of Dicentra Cucullaria 
Crucifer oe 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 
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