96 FUMARIACE^. Dicentra. 



Bot. Mex. Bound. 32 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 24. Capnorchis chri/santha, Planchou, 

 Fl. Serres, viii. 193, t. 820. — Dry hills, California, from Lake Co. to San Diego and farther, 

 first coll. by Douglas ; fl. summer. 



D. OChroleuca, Engelm. Flowers an inch long, ochroleucous ; only the tips of the outer 

 petals spreading ; the inner with purple tips and still larger winged crests : otherwise like 

 the preceding, of which it may be a form. — Bot. Gaz. vi. 223. — Valleys of the Santa 

 Monica Mountains near Los Angeles, California, Engelmann ; sandy washes, Temescal, San 

 Bernardino Co., Lyon.^ 



3. CORx DALIS, Vent. (Kopv8aA.Ais, Latin Corydalus, ancient name of 

 the crested lark.) — Herbs of wide range and various habit ; none of ours at all 

 cirrhose and climbing. —Vent. Choix Cels, 19; DC. Fl. Fr. ed. 3, iv. 636, «fe 

 Syst. ii. 113; Benth. «& Hook. Gen. i. 55, excl. Gysticapnos (which is original 

 Corydalis, Dill.), &c. 



§ 1. Perennial and simple-stemmed from a tuber. — Bulbocapnos, Bernh, 



C. pauciflora, Pers. A span high, from a simple or double oblong tuber, 1-3-leaved below : 

 leaves 1-2-ternately divided or parted; divisions obovate or spatulate, mostly entire; raceme 

 capituliform, 2-7-flowered, leafy bracteate : corolla three fourths inch long, long-spurred, 

 purple. — Syn. ii. 269 ; Deless. Ic. Sel. ii. t. 9 ; Hook. Fl. Bor -Am. i. 37 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. 

 i. 70; Ledeb. Ic. t. 450. Fumaria pauciflora, Steph. in Willd. Spec. iii. 86L — N. Alaska 

 and Islands. (E. Siberia to Caucasus.) 

 C. AMBiGUA, Cham. & Schlecht., comes as near as Arakamtchem Island, on the Asiatic side 



of Bering Strait, Wright. 



§ 2. Perennial, from thickened roots, branching, with ample 2-3-pinnate 

 leaves and many-flowered racemes : stigma with 6 lobes or processes, one pair 

 terminal, one medial, and one basal : capsules oval or oblong, rather few-seeded. 

 Western. 



* Flowers rose-colored : root tuberous-thickened : stem squamose at base, leafless for con- 

 siderable height, then few- and large-leaved. ( Here the Siberian C. poiouiie/blia, Pers., 

 & C. gigantea, Trautv. & Meyer.) 



C. Scouleri, Hook. Stem a foot to a yard high, 1-3-leaved above : larger leaves thrice 

 pinnate, then pinnately parted into oblong obtuse divisions of an inch or two in length, 

 glaucous beneath : corolla fully inch long, cylindrical spur thrice the length of the body. — 

 Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 36, t. 14. C. Scouleri & C. macrophylla (Nutt.), Torr. & Gray, FL i. 69. — 

 Woods of Columbia River near the coast, Scouler, Cooper, &c. 



* * Flowers cream-color or white, mostly with bluish tips : stems erect from strong peren- 

 nial roots, 2 to 5 feet high, leafy throughout, glaucescent : leaflets oval or oblong, half 

 inch to inch long, mucronate : racemes terminal, dense : corolla inch or less long ; the 

 nearly straight spur fully twice the length of the rest of the flower : species or forms, 

 probably all to be reunited. 



C. Caseana, Gray. Stem rather lax and succulent : hood of the outer petals concave, with 

 spreading margins, pointless or short-pointed, and bearing a rather broad and apically pro- 

 jecting dorsal crest : mature fruit unknown, the forming capsules barely half inch long, 

 elliptical, obtuse. — Proc. Am. Acad. x. 69 ; Wats. Bot. Calif, ii. 429. C. Bidwelliic, Wats. 

 1. c. — In water or on very wet banks. Sierra Nevada, California, from Truckee River to the 

 Big Spring district in Plumas Co., Bolander, E. L. Case, Lemmon, Mrs. Austin, Mrs. Bidwelt, 

 Parry. 



C. Cusickii, Watson, 1. c. 430. Raceme more bracteate : flowers white or purplish, with tips 

 of inner petals violet ; hood of outer petals emai-ginate by the development of broad thin 

 margins which are recurved over the narrow and undulate dorsal crest : capsule oblong, 

 turgid, half inch long, " elastically dehiscent from the apex downward, forcibly projecting 

 the seeds" {Cusick); seeds nearly smooth with a conspicuous orbicular carunculate crest. — 



1 Near Cholame, San Luis Obispo Co., Lemmon; San Rafael Mts., Ford. 



