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ular or scaly snbterrauean stem or crown, fibrous rootlets, ternately or 

 pinnately compound leaves, and racemose or paniculate flowers; the 

 corolla often persistent over the mature fruit. Corolla flattened and 

 cordate; the 2 outer petals larger, saccate or spurred at base. 



* Flo ire rs ov a scape; seeds shining. 



1. C. foriiiosa, O. Ktze. Eev. Gen. 15 (1891); Andr. Bot. Bep. vi. t. 393 

 (1800), under Fnmavia; Pursh, Fl. ii. 462 (1814), under Corydalis; DC. 

 Syst. ii. 109 (1821j, under Diclylra. Rootstock rather large, creeping, 

 nearly naked: leaves and scapes 2 ft. high, the former twice or thrice 

 pinnately compound, the final divisions incisely pinnatifid: fl. compound- 

 racemose at summit of the naked scape: corolla rose-purple, ovate- 

 cordate, with short spreading tips to the larger petals. — Common in 

 woods of the Coast Eange and Sierra Nevada, in middle and northern 

 parts of the State, and far northward. 



2. C. uniflora, O. Ktze. 1. c; Kell. Proe. Calif. Acad. iv. 141 (1871), 

 under Dicenlra; Greene, Pitt. i. 187 (1888), under Diclylra. Roots fleshy 

 and fasciculate, the cluster surmounted by bulb-like fleshy grains, and 

 sending up leaves and a scape 3 — 5 in. high: blade of leaves of ovate 

 oiitline, ternately or pinnately divided, the few segments pinnatifid, into 

 few linear-oblong or spatulate lobes: fl. mostly solitary at summit of 

 scape, narrowly oblong-cordate, flesh-color, the 2 outer petals tapering 

 above, at length reflexed. — At rather high elevations in the Sierra, near 

 Cisco, etc. 



3. C. pauciflora, Greene. Wats. Bot. Calif, ii. 429 (1880), under 

 Dicenlra; Greene, Pitt. 1. c, under Diclylra. Rootstock running and 

 tuberiferous : scape and leaves very slender, 4 — 8 in. high, the latter 

 biternate with very narrow segments: fl. 1 — 3, rose-color; spurs of outer 

 petals stout, straight, not divergent; tips of same spreading or reflexed. — 

 A species of the high mountains west of Mt. Shasta; to be expected in 

 the Trinity Mts. 



* * Floorers panicled ur thyrsoidly arranged on a rigid leafy stem; seeds dull. 



4. C. chrysantha, Planch. Fl. Serr. viii. 193. t. 820 (1853); H. & A. 

 Bot. Beech. 320. t. 73 (1840), under Diclylra; B. & W. Bot. Calif, i. 24 

 (1876), under Dicenlra. Pale and glaucous, 2 — 5 ft. high: leaves bipin- 

 nate, the larger 1 ft. long or more; the divisions cleft into few narrow 

 lobes: racemose panicle 1 — 2 ft. long: corolla linear-oblong, only slightly 

 cordate, golden-yellow: capsule oblong-ovate. — On dry hills from Lake 

 Co., and through the Mt. Diablo Range, to the southern part of the State. 



5. C. ochroleuca, Greene. Engelm. Bot. Gaz. vi. 223 (1881), under 

 Dicenlra; Greene, Pitt. i. 187 (1888), under Diclylra. Lower and rather 

 stouter than the last: inflorescence thyrsoidly condensed; the somewhat 



