578 FUMITORY FAMILY 



narrow, recurving to below the middle; inner petals spoon-shaped at apex, 

 expanded downward, then abruptly truncate and borne by a claw-like base; 

 fruiting scapes prostrate. 



Rocky slopes, 6000 to 12,000 feet, Sierra Nevada from Fresno Co. north 

 to Siskiyou Co., thence southerly to Humboldt Co. North to Washington, east 

 to Utah. 



LOGS. South Fork Mt., Humboldt Co., Blasdale; Trinity Summit, Davy 5816; Mt. Bidwell, 

 Austin 4- Bruce; Soupan Sprs., Lassen Peak, Hall <$ Babcock 4298; Truckee, Sonne; betw. 

 Angora Peak and Keith's Dome, Alice M. Ottley 799; Tilden Lake, Jepson 4556; Macomb 

 Eidge, Yosemite Park, Jepson 4557; Mt. Dana, Jepson; Mt. Lyell, Jepson 3331; Nellie Lake, 

 Fresno Co., A. L. Grant 1018. 



Eefs. Di CENTRA UNIFLORA Kell. Proc. Cal. Acad. 4:141, fig. (1871), type loc. Placer Co. 

 (Cisco and Summit); Jepson, Sierra Club Bull. 8:266-269 (1912). Diolytra uniflora Greene, 

 Pitt. 1:187 (1888). Capnorchis uniflora Ktze., Eev. Gen. PI. 15 (1891). BiTcukulla uniflora 

 Howell, Fl. Nw. Am. 34 (1897). 



5. D. pauciflora Wats. Scapes 4 to 5 inches high, 1 to 3-flowered, arising 

 from fleshy creeping rootstocks; leaves similar to D. uniflora; flowers white or 

 flesh-color, outer petals with saccate spur, the upper portion linear-oblong, 4 lines 

 long, recurving or widely spreading; inner petals narrow or ligulate, abruptly 

 expanded into a spatulate apex, contracted at base and borne on a much dilated 

 or oblong claw as long as the blade proper. 



Alpine, 9000 to 10,000 feet, localized in two widely separated regions : Salmon 

 Alps, Scott and Trinity mountains ; Sawtooth Range, Tulare Co. 



Locs. Union Lake Valley, Salmon Mts., Hall 8623; Mineral King (Oontrib. U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. 4:60); Mt. Moses, Purpus 1340. 



Eefs. DICENTRA PAUCIFLORA Wats. Bot. Cal. 2:429 (1880), based on spms. from Scott 

 Mts., Greene, and Castle Lake, Trinity Mts., Lei,. won. Diclytra pauciflora Greene, Pitt. 1:187 

 (1888). Bilcukulla pauciflora Cov. Contrib. U. S. .Nat. Herb. 4:60 (1893). Capnorchis pauci- 

 flora Greene, Fl. Fr. 279 (1891). 



2. CORYDALIS Vent. 



Stems with ample 2 or 3-pinnate leaves. Flowers in racemes. Corolla with 

 only one of the outer petals spurred or gibbous, this becoming posterior by the 

 torsion of the flower; petals all erect and connivent up to the engaged tips of 

 the outer ones. Filaments with nectar-bearing process projecting into the petal- 

 spur. Seeds with a concave aril-like crest. Species 90, North America, Europe. 

 Asia, Africa. (Greek Korydallis, the ancient name of the crested lark.) " 



Flowers white or eream-color; spur 1% to 2 times as long as the petals 1. C. caseana. 



Flowers yellow; spur barely % as long as the petals .._ 2. C. aurea. 



1. C. caseana Gray. Stem l 1 /^ to 3 feet high, arising from thickened roots; 

 leaves % to 1*4 feet long ; leaflets ovate, mucronate, 3 to 9 lines long ; raceme 

 dense, iy 2 to 3 inches long ; corolla white or cream-color, with bluish tips ; petals 

 4 to 5 lines long, the spur nearly straight, iy 2 to 2 times as long. 



Northern Sierra Nevada from Nevada Co. to Plumas Co., 5000 to 6300 feet. 



Locs. Truckee Eiver, Placer Co., Sonne; Indian Valley, Plumas Co., Lemmon; Jamison 

 Creek, Plumas Co., Hall 9308; Butte Creek, Hall 9796; Big Meadows, Plumas Co., Cleveland; 

 Morgan, Tehama Co., Hall $ BaboocJc 4291. 



Eefs. CORYDALIS CASEANA Gray, Proe. Am. Acad. 10:69 (1874), type loc. Big Mdws., 

 Plumas Co., Lemmon, E. L. Case. Capnoides caseanum Greene, Fl. Fr. 280 (1891). Corydalis 

 bidwelliae Wats. Bot. Cal. 2:429 (1880), type loc. Sierra Nevada above Chico, Annie Bidwell. 

 Capnodes bidwellianum Greene I.e. 



2. C. aurea Willd. Branching from the base, spreading, about 10 inches 

 high ; leaves finely dissected ; raceme few-flowered, short, the pedicels 1 to 2 lines 

 long; flowers yellow; petals 3y 2 to 4 lines long, the spur about half as long; 

 capsules terete, at length torulose, 10 lines long; seeds black, glossy. 



Mono Co., 6900 to 7000 feet. Rocky Mts. to Alaska and Nova Scotia. 



Loc. Betw. Pickle Mdws. and Hardy sta., Alice M. Ottley 1133. 



Eefs. CORYDALIS AUREA Willd. Emim. 740 (1809), type loc. Canada; Gray, Gen. PI. TJ. S. 

 1:124, pi. 52 (1848). Fumaria aurea Ker. Bot. Eeg. t. 66 (1815). Capnoides aureum Ktze. 

 Eev. Gen. PI. 14 (1891). 



JEPSON, FLORA OF CALIFORNIA, vol. 1, pp. 553-578, Jan. 21, 1922. 



