CRUCIFERA. (MUSTARD FAMILY.) 23. 
Stemless perennial herbs, with ternately-compound and dissected leaves. Flow- 
ers racemose, nodding. 
1. D. Cucullaria, DC. Rhizoma granular, bulb-like ; scape simple, 
4 - 10-flowered, longer than the (1-3) long-petioled linear-lobed leaves ; corolla 
whitish, with two divergent, wing-like spurs, longer than the pedicel ; inner petals 
minutely crested. — Rich. woods, North Carolina and northward. April. — 
Scape 6/-9* high. 
2. D. eximia, DC. Rhizoma granular, scaly; raceme compound, many- 
flowered, shorter than the (3-8) oblong-lobed leaves; corolla rose-color, 2-gibbous 
at the base; inner petals conspicuously crested ; stigm’a 2-horned at the apex. — 
Mountain rodki; North Carolina and northward. June ~ September. — Scape 
8/-12' high. Bracts purplish. 
3. CORYDALIS, Vent. 
Sepals minute. Petals separate, deciduous ; one of the outer ones sac-liKe 
at the base. Filaments united nearly to the summit, with a gland at the base. 
Stigma 2-lobed. Capsule many-seeded. Seed crested. — Caulescent, annual or 
biennial herbs, with bipinnate dissected leaves, and flowers in lateral and termi- 
nal racemes. 
1. C. aurea, Willd. Stems diffuse ; racemes stipe ants knotted, 
drooping ; crest of the seeds scalloped ; Howes ye ellow. — Banks of the Apa- 
lachicola River (and as ‘an annual weed in gardens), Florida to Mississippi 
and northward. March and April. — Stems 6'—19/ long. Leaves finely dis- 
sected. 
2. C. glauca, Pursh. Stems erect; racemes compound; capsule even, 
erect, crest of the seeds entire, flowers whitish, tinged with yellow and reddish. 
— Mountains of North Carolina and northward. May.— Plant glaucous, 19-20 
high. Divisions of the leaves coarser than the last. 
Orprr 12. CRUCIFERAE. (MUSTARD FawiLY.) : 
Herbs with pungent watery juice, alternate exstipulate leaves, : RP. reg- 
ular hypogynous racemose or corymbose flowers, on bractless pedicels. i 
Fruit a silique or silicle. — Sepals 4, deciduous. Petals 4, regular, placed 
opposite each other in pairs, their spreading limbs forming a cross. Sta- n 
mens 6 (rarely fewer), two of them shorter. Capsule 2-celled by a mem- - 
branaceous partition which unites the two marginal placentze, from which | 
the two valves separate at maturity, or indehiscent and nut-like, or sepa- 
rating into 1-seeded joints. Seeds campylotropous, without albumen, - 
filled with Abe bene cane c eo Ew 
