tion. It seems well suited to cultivation in a cool frame. It 
flowers copiously in May. Mr. Nuttall detected it as far south 
as Monterey. 
Descr. Roots perennial, but long, slender, straggling. Stems 
more or less compact, four to eight or ten inches long, dichoto- 
mously branched, angular, herbaceous, nearly glabrous, as is the 
whole plant. Leaves two to three inches long, submembrana- 
ceous, broad, cordately rhomboid, full green, obtuse, reticulately 
veined, coarsely crenato-serrate, decurrent from the sinus upon 
the long slender petiole, three to four inches long. Stipules ob- 
long or linear-oblong, moderately large, pinnatifid at the base. 
Pedunceles solitary, axillary, twice as long as the leaves, angular, 
with a pair of subulate sfipu/es situated much above the middle, 
which are opposite or alternate. /V/owers of a rich golden yel- 
low; three lower petals streaked with deep blood-colour at the 
base ; two upper ones each with a very large blotch at the back, 
of the same colour. Calye as in the genus. Lateral petals 
with a tuft of hairs at the base of the lamina: two upper ones 
with long claws. Spur nearly obsolete. Stamens: two inferior, 
anthers with a crest or thick wing at the back. Ovary oblongo- 
ovate. Style club-shaped. Capitate stigma with a longitudinal 
cleft, and a small spur at the base of the cleft; a circle of 
hairs half surrounds the stigma. 
Fig. 1. Lateral petal. 2. Inferior petal (nectary, Z.). 3. Stamen and pistil. 
4. One of the inferior anthers. 5. Pistil :—magnified. 
