©. Corydalis (Dill.) Medic. 
@ f eS TEPC EnhSeSehohenneS> Flowers in racemes, or 
panicles. Corolla with only one petal Spurred, all connivent, forming a 
more or less trumpet-shaped flower. Filements united into two sets, the 
upper provided with a linear process which extends into the spur. eee 
ameter > -. 
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' OF lowers purplish; plants commonly 1 m, tall ], Ce Cusickii 
O Flowers golden yellow; plants 25-40 om. tall ©. Ce aurea 
1. Ce Cusickii Wats. Stems stout and fistulous, from a very deep 
taproot, 1m. or more tall; leaves 3-4 times pimately divided, the blades 
50-60 cm. Tong, or more, the leaflets alternate, 1-2.5 om. long, elliptical 
or oval, acute or obtuse, lightly mucronate, Shortly petiolate or Sessile, 
glabrous on both surfaces; flowers in dense terminal racemes or panicles, 
the individual racemes 5-15 em. long, 5-4 cm. wide, many-flowered, bracts 
subfoliar, oblanceolate, or lanceolate, 1 cm. long or less, pedicels 45 mM e 
long; sepals mimute, soon deciduous, 1-2 mn. long, ovate, toothed; upper 
petal 20-22 mm. longy including the Spur, lightly hooded at the apex, white, 
the spur stout, 10-12 em. long, the lower petal lightly saccate at the base; 
inner petals similar, fiddle-shaped, joined at the purple 3-ribbed tip, the 
blades 6-7 mm. long, abruptly clawed, the claw 4m. long; stamens united in 
two sets, anthers .8 mm. long, linear, filaments united nearly throughout and 
dilated, 7 mn. long, the upper prolonged into a linear appendage of subequal 
length, which projects into the Spur; Ovary cylindrical, 4 mm. long, the 
q style abruptly bent, subequal, the stigma flattened, 1.3 mm. long, irregularly 
5-lobed; capsule 10-12 mm. long, clavate, torulose, elastically dehiscent from 
GP the apex downward; seeds black and shining, reniform, 2 mm. in diameter. ——> 
c= ~~? (Capmoides Cusickii Hellen). 
Rare, but locally abundant, apparently occurring only in the southern 
part of our region along shaded streams; abundant on Gold Creek near Elk River. 
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nO” —»st. Joe-Clearwater Divide Q520 im, Leiborg 1190; shaded alluvial stream 
bottom, Orogrande Cr., 3000 ft., Epling and Houck 9558; Lolo trail, Watson; 
Gold Cr., Epling. 
ee C. aurea Willd. Glabrous annual or biennial herbs with glaucous foliage, : 
25-40 cme tall, stems Several, ascending, the internodes 5=25 cne long; leat=> = 3 
“blades 3-8 om. long, triangular in outline, 2-3 times pinnate, the ultimate 
segnonts 1-3 mn. wide, obtuse, the petioles as long as the blades or longer; 
flowers few in axillary racemes 1-1.5 cme long, subtended by greonish membren- 
ous bracts 4-5 mm. loms; flowers vellow, 11-12 mn. long, the spur 3-4 mn. 
long, curving doymward, rounded and blunt, the unspurred petal 8-8.5 mm. long, ' 
the inner 7-7.5 mm. long, the claw half as long as the blade; pods about 2 om. 
long, tipped by the acuminate Style, moniliform; seeds reniform, 1.7 mm. long, 
very black and shining.~__-, (Gapnoides aureun Ktze.). 
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