Anyone interested in the history of the generic appella- 
tions Dicentra, Dielytra and Diclytra, should turn to the 
‘Botanische Zeitung,’ vol. xv. (1857), p. 641, and 
vol. xvii, (1859), p. 157. 
Descr.—A_ perennial, glabrous, glaucous, erect herb, 
two to four feet high, sometimes becoming woody at the 
base, and persistent through the winter. Stems stiff, with 
few branches. Leaves large, pinnately divided to the second 
or third degree; ultimate lobes small, linear or cuneate, 
somewhat acute. Panicles much-branched, many-flowered, 
one to two feet long. Flowers of a brilliant, golden 
yellow, one inch to one inch and a quarter in diameter, 
shortly stalked, nearly erect. Bracts and_bracteoles 
minute, scale-like. Sepals two, small, broadly ovate, fall- 
ing in the expansion of the flower. Petals four, of two 
shapes, about an inch long; two outer saccate and 
rounded at the base, ovate-oblong above the middle, acute, 
spreading ; two inner oblong, concave, keeled down the 
back, more or less cohering their whole length, and en- 
closing the stamens and pistil. Stamens six, in two 
bundles of three, opposite the outer petals; filaments 
glabrous, filiform above the middle. Ovary one-celled, 
glabrous; stigma capitate, two-lobed; placentas two, 
parietal, very narrow, bearing numerous ovules. Capsule. 
club-shaped, including the persistent style one inch and a 
quarter to one inch and a half long, naked, many-seeded. 
Seeds numerous, kidney-shaped, flattened, about three- 
quarters of a line long, smooth.—W. B. H. 
Fig. 1, a Hower; 2, an inner petal; 3, a bundle of stamens; 4, a pistil :— 
all enlarged, 
