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4. Corydalis aurea Willd. Golden Corydalis. Fig. 1916. 



Corydalis aurea Willd. Enura. Hort. Ber. 740. 1809. 

 Capnodes aureum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 1: 14. 1891. 

 Corydalis oregana Fedde, Rep. Spec. Nov. 11: 290. 1912. 

 Corydalis washingtoniana Fedde, op. cit. 10: 419. 1912. 



Winter annual or possibly biennial, diffusely branching and leafy from the base, 1-4 dm. 

 high. Leaves bipinnate, the leaflets pinnatifid; racemes short, mostly few-flowered; flowers 

 golden yellow, 12-15 mm. long; spur about half as long as the petals, curved downward; capsules 

 linear, 2-3 cm. long, about 2 mm. thick, more or less pendulous and curved, torulose. 



Dry or moist soils, Arid Transition and Upper Sonoran Zones; British Columbia, eastern Washington, 

 eastern Oregon, and northeastern California to New England and Texas. Type locality: "In Canada." May- 

 Aug. 



3. FUMARIA [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 699. 1753. 



Annual glaucous herbs, with diffusely branching, erect or scandent stems. Leaves 

 decompound with small narrow segments. Racemes terminal or opposite the leaf. Sepals 

 2, scale-like. Petals 4, erect-connivent, the outer dissimilar, one of them spurred, the 

 inner pair narrow, coherent at apex, carinate or crested on the back. Stamens 6, diadel- 

 phous, opposite the outer petals. Style filiform, with a small, entire or obscurely 2-lobed 

 stigma; ovary with 1 ovule near the base. Fruit subglobose, indehiscent, 1-seeded. [Name 

 Latin, meaning smoke, in allusion to the smoke-like smell of some species.] 



About IS species, all natives of the Old World. Type species, Fumaria officinalis L. 



1. Fumaria officinalis L. Fumitory. Fig. 1917. 



Fumaria officinalis L. Sp. PI. 700. 1753. 



Glabrous and glaucous, the stems diffusely branched, spreading or ascending, 2-8 dm. long. 

 Leaves petioled, finely dissected into narrow, linear or cuneate segments; racemes narrow, 2.5- 

 7.5 cm. long ; bracts small ; pedicels 2-4 mm. long ; flowers purple, darker at the apex, 4-6 mm. 

 long ; nutlet depressed-globose, 2 mm. in diameter. 



Waste places, Willamette Valley, Oregon, and central California. Adventive from Europe. April-June. 



Fumaria parviflora Lam. Encycl. 2: 567. 1786. Segments of the leaflets narrowly linear, acute, chan- 

 neled; flowers 3-4 mm. long, cream-colored except the purple tips of the inner petals; nutlet apiculate. Edges 

 of gardens and waste places, Santa Clara Valley, California. Adventive from Europe. April-May. 



Family 52. BRASSICACEAE. 

 Mustard Family. 



Herbs or rarely suftrutescent plants, with acrid juice, alternate leaves and race- 

 mose or corymbose flowers. Sepals 4, deciduous or persistent, the 2 outer narrow, 

 the inner similar, or concave or saccate at base. Petals 4, rarely 2 or none, hypog- 

 ynous, cruciate, nearly equal, usually clawed. Stamens 6, rarely 2 or 4, hypog- 

 ynous, tetradynamous. Pistil 1, compound, consisting of 2 united carpels, the 

 parietal placentae united by dissepiment ; style generally persistent, sometimes 

 none ; stigma discoid or more or less 2-lobed. Fruit a silique or silicle, 2-celled or 



1915 

 1915. Corydalis Cusickii 



1916 

 1916. Corydalis aurea 



1917 

 1917. Fumaria officinalis 



