Descr. Root perennial. Stem twelve to eighteen inches 

 high, glabrous, branched ; branches ten to fourteen flowered. 

 Badical leaves two to two and a half inches diameter, three- 

 to seven-lohed to the middle or nearly to the base, segments 

 obovate-cuneate with three to seven broad, ovate, or rounded 

 apiculate lobes at the top ; petioles three to five inches 

 long ; cauline leaves shortly petioled, three to five cleft. 

 Racemes three to seven inches long ; pedicels, one to one and 

 a half inches long, spreading ; bracts small, linear ; bracteoles 

 linear-oblong, pubescent. Flowers, including the spur, oue 

 and a half inches long. Sepals bright orange-red, concave, 

 obtuse, scarcely spreading ; spur stout, nearly straight, a little 

 longer than the rest of the flower. Petals about as long as 

 the sepals, linear-oblong, bright yellow; two upper 2-fid 

 at the tip, ciliate. Carpels three, spreading and recurved, 

 reticulate, veined ; style slender. — /. D. H. 



Fig. 1. Flower with the sepals and two lower petals removed ; 2, carpels: 

 — both magnified. 



