F umaria. L. 16. 6.
F. officinalis. L. Fumitory. Introduced from Europe, but
growing about gardens and fields ; rather handsome, glaucous,
pinnate leaves, red or crimson flowers, seed in a pouch or pod ;
stem a foot or more high ; flowers in July. Annual.
On account of the disagreeable smell, named from the Latin
for smoke. Loudon.
C orydalis. Vent.
The Greek name of Fumitory. Loudon.
C. cucullaria. Pers. Colic Weed. Bears a cluster of white
flowers closed at the tc5p, on radical and leafless white stems about
six or eight inches high ; leaves radical, much-divided into leaflets,
delicate green, slightly glaucous ; blooms in May, along hedges
and light woods ; root bulbous, or a collection of small solid tubers.
C. glauca, P h ., and C. formosa, P h ., are both beautiful plants
of the woods, and might ornament any garden ; flower in May.
C. fungosa. Pers. Climbing Colic Weed ; has already been
introduced from our woods into the gardens and yards, where it
climbs or follows the trail placed for it often twenty feet in length,
forming fine arches and arbours, end bearing numerous clusters of
whitish or flesh-colored flowers ; the corolla has a spongy mass
inside, as if one petal. Stem, climbing by tendrils, and full of
flowers ; blossoms in July.
The species have suffered much in their names, which have
been repeatedly changed.
ORDER 11. CA P PER ID EiE. C aper T r ib e .
Monosepalous or polysepalous, four divisions, and hs many
petals cruciate ; stamens definite or indefinite, rarely tetradyna-
mous, commonly many, mostly perigynous ; ovary on a short
stem ; leaves various and inflorescence also ; some are herbaceous.
C leome . L. 6. 1.
C. dodecandra. L. Stem branched, viscid, pubescent, strong
odor, ternate leaves, and purplish white flowers in a raceme ;
pods swollen, hairy viscid blossoms in June, in sandy places.
Narcotic, anthelmintic, emetic, cathartic.
ORDER 22. B ERBERIDEiE.
Sepals or leaves of calyx, 3 to 6, deciduous, having scales
around them; petals once or twice as many as sepals, hypogy-
nous, with an appendage inside at the base ; stamens opposite the
petals, and of equal number with them ; single 1-celled ovary;
shrubby, or herbaceous, with compound leaves. Only one herbaceous
genus belongs to our State.
L eon t ic e . L . 6. 1.
L . thalictroides. L. Poppoose Root, and False Cohosh.
Stem a foot or more high, with a single, much-divided leaf,
and having 2 -3-lobed leafets ; flowers small and yellowish-
green ; sepals and petals each 6, and a scale at the base of the
petals ; berries deep blue .; blossoms in April and May ; in drying,
the plant becomes black ; it is dark-colored in its younger
state. Is the Caulophyllum of Mx.
The other genus is the Barberry, so well known for its red,
finely acid berries.
ORDER 24. MALVACEiE.
Calyx generally divided into 5 parts, sometimes 3, or 4, or 5
sepals, more or less united at the base, often with a surrounding
one or more leafed involucre ; hypogynous petals, usually 5 ;
anthers mostly very numerous, with their filaments monadelphous,
or in one set ; many fruit-vessels, united round a common axis,
and each bearing a style, form the ovarium ; leaves alternate ;
some of the plants herbaceous, and contain much mucilage ; used
as emollients ; natives of the torrid and warm temperate zones.
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