Adlumia
(from adlumino, to fringe with purple; flowers bordered with purple). ORD. Fumariaceae. An interesting, delicate, and nearly hardy climber from North America. Flowers with four spongy, cohering petals. A warm, good soil is most suitable; sow seeds about May in a shady spot. It is a biennial, but in favourable spots is self-sowing, and thus may be treated as a perennial. If placed either against a wall or in the open it is a pretty subject for trailing over a shrub or twiggy branch. From its fragile character, it can only be seen to the best advantage under glass.
A. cirrhosa (tendrilled).* fl. pale rose-coloured, about 1/2in. long; peduncles axillary, generally four-flowered. June. l. tripinnate, pale green. h. 15ft. 1788. The Maidenhair Fern-like leaves are borne in profusion on the slender twining stems. SYN. Corydalis fungosa.