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KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Corolla purplish pink; plants tall, about 1 meter high.......... 4. C. brandeget. 
Corolla bright yellow; plants low, usually less than 30 cm. high. 
Pods not torulose, slightly curved; pedicels erect or ascend- 
ing; racemes many-flowered, dense; spur about equal- 
ing the body of the flower; stems stout, mostly erect.. 1. C. montanum. 
Pods torulose, incurved-ascending; pedicels reflexed; ra- 
cemes few-flowered, lax; spur about half as long as the 
body; stems slender, weakly ascending or prostrate. 
Bracts narrowly lanceolate to oblong, 8 mm. long or 
usually less; petioles without pinne near the 
base.....-..-------2 22 eee eee eee eee eee eee eee 2. C. aureum. 
Bracts rather broadly oblanceolate, 12 to 25 mm. long; 
a pair of pinne present almost at the base of the 
petiole. ..............2 2220-2 e eee ee eee eee eee eee 3. C. euchlamydeum. 
1. Capnoides montanum (Engelm.) Britton, Mem. Torrey Club 5: 166. 1894. 
Corydalis montana Engelm.; A. Gray, Mem., Amer. Acad. n. ser. 4: 6. 1849. 
Corydalis aurea occidentalis Engelm.; A. Gray, Man. ed. 5. 62. 1867. 
Type Locauiry: Rocks, Santa Fe Creek, New Mexico. Type collected by Fend- 
ler (no. 17). 
Ranae: South Dakota to Utah, Arizona, and Texas, south into Mexico. 
New Mexico: Santa Fe Creek; Burro Mountains; Mangas Springs; Black Range; 
Mesilla Valley; Organ Mountains; near Gray; mountains west of San Antonio. Open 
slopes, in the Lower and Upper Sonoran zones. 
2. Capnoides aureum (Willd.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 14. 1891. 
Corydalis aurea Willd. Enum. Pl. 740. 1809. 
Type nocauiry: ‘Habitat in Canada.”’ 
RANGE: British America to Pennsylvania, Texas, and California. 
New Mexico: Chama; Tierra Amarilla; Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; Zuni; 
Magdalena Mountains; Sandia Mountains; Mogollon Mountains; Black Range; San 
Luis Mountains; Organ Mountains. Damp thickets, in the Transition Zone. 
3. Capnoides euchlamydeum Woot. & Stand]. Contr. U. 8. Nat. Herb. 16: 122. 
19138. 
Type LocaLity: Cloudcroft, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico. Type collected 
by Wooton, August 8, 1899. 
Rance: Damp woods in the Sacramento and White mountains of New Mexico, in 
the Transition Zone. 
4. Capnoides brandegei (S. Wats.) Heller, Cat. N. Amer. Pl. 4. 1898. 
Corydalis brandegei 8S. Wats. Bot. Calif. 2: 430. 1880. 
TypE Locauity: ‘‘Mountains of southern Colorado and in the Wahsatch.” 
Ranae: Utah and Colorado to northern New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Chama (Standley 6706). Damp canyons, in the Canadian Zone. 
56. BRASSICACEAE. Mustard Family. 
Herbaceous annuals, biennials, or perennials, sometimes with woody base, with 
watery, acrid or pungent sap; leaves alternate; flowers in mostly terminal racemes, 
generally small; sepals 4, deciduous; petals 4, rarely wanting; stamens 6, tetrady- 
namous, rarely 2 or 4; ovary 2-celled by a thin partition, rarely l-celled; fruit a 
silique or silicle. (The fruit is necessary for the determination of genera and species.) 
