Tap. 7954, 
DICENTRA cuHrysantHa. 
Native of California, 
Nat. Ord. Fumariace, 
Genus Dicentra, Borkh, ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 59.) 
DicentRA chrysantha; herba perennis, basi interdum lignescens et per 
hiemem persistens, glabra, glauca, erecta, 2-4 ped. alta, caulibus 
rigidis pauciramosis, foliis amplis bi- vel tripinnatisectis segmentis 
lobisque ultimis linearibus vel cuneatis acutiusculis, paniculis multi- 
ramosis multifloris 1-2 ped. longis, floribus aureis 1-12 poll. diametro 
breviter pedicellatis suberectis, bracteis bracteolisque minutis squami- 
formibus, sepalis 2 parvis late ovatis caducis, petalis 4 dimorphis 
circiter pollicaribus 2 exterioribus basi saccatis rotundatis supra medium 
ovato-oblongis acutis patentibus 2 interioribus oblongis concavis dorso 
carinatis per totam longitudinem conniventibus stamina stylumque in- 
cludentibus, staminibus 6 in phalanges 2 petalis exterioribus oppositas 
connatis, filamentis glabris supra medium filiformibus, ovario unilocu- 
lari glabro stigmate capitato bilobato, placentis 2 parietalibus linearibus 
multiovulatis, capsula clavata cum stylo persistente 13-11 poll. longa 
levi polysperma, seminibus numerosis reniformibus compressis circiter 
# lin. longis leevibus. 
D. chrysantha, Walp. Rep. vol. i. p. 118. S. Wats. Bot. Calif. vol. i. p. 24. 
W. Irving in The Garden, vol. lxiv. (1903), p. 334. H.N.E. in op. cit. 
vol. lxv. p. 18. : 
Dielytra chrysantha, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 320, t. 73. Pat. Fl. 
Gard. vol. iii. (1852-3), p. 151, t. 103. 
Capnorchis chrysantha, Planch. in Flore des Serres, vol. viii. p. 193, t. 820. 
Bikukulla chrysantha, Coville in Contr, U.S. Nat, Herb, vol. iv. (1893), p. 60. 
Dicentra chrysantha, Walp., was originally discovered 
by David Douglas, and subsequently by William Lobb, 
who collected for Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter, where plants 
were raised from seed, and flowered for the first time in 
September, 1852. It inhabits dry hills of the Coast 
Range, Southern California, at elevations of 2,500 to 
4,000 feet, and should therefore be given a sheltered 
situation and a southern exposure. At Kew it succeeds 
well under a south wall, and last year, in spite of the 
unfavourable weather, it flowered from July till nearly the 
end of October. Canon Ellacombe, writing in ‘“ The 
Garden,” sums up his experience of the plant in a few 
words, to the effect that it is hardy, short-lived, and never 
produces seed. 
May Ist, 1904. 
