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broad at the base, white, or faintly pink, yellow at the summit; spurs widely 

 divergent. In woods, N. S. to Minn., Wash.. N. Car., Neb. and Mo. April-May. 



2. Bicuculla Canadensis (Goldie) Millsp. SQUIRREL CORN. (I. F. f. 1670.) 

 Similar, the rootstock bearing numerous small tubers. Leaves decidedly glaucous 

 beneath; flowers nodding, short-pedicelled, 14-18 mm. long, 10 mm. broad at the 

 base, greenish white, purplish tinged, slightly fragrant; spurs short, rounded. 

 In rich woods, N. S. to Minn., Va., Ky., Neb. and Mo. May-June. 



3. Bicuculla exiraia (Ker) Millsp. WILD BLEEDING-HEART. (I. F. f. 1671.) 

 Glabrous, somewhat glaucous, 3-6 dm. high; rootstock scaly. Leaves larger than 

 those of the preceding species, ternately parted, the divisions stalked, finely 

 pinnatifid into oblong or ovate segments; scape slender, about equalling the leaves; 

 raceme compound; flowers clustered in cymes, slender- pedicelled, pink, nodding, 

 16-20 mm. long, 6-8 mm. broad at the base; spurs short, rounded, incurved; 

 outer petals spreading at the apex. In rocky places, W. N. Y. to Ga. and 

 Tenn. May-Sept. 



8. ADLUMIA Raf. 



A glabrous climbing vine, with decompound leaves. Sepals 2, scale-like. 

 Petals 4, permanently united into a narrowly ovate cordate persistent spongy 

 corolla 4-lobed at the apex. Stamens 6, monadelphous below, diadelphous above, 

 adherent to the petals. Capsule oblong, included in the persistent corolla. Seeds 

 crestless. Closely related to certain Asiatic species of Bicuculla. [In honor of 

 John Adlum, a gardener of Washington. ] A monotypic genus of eastern N. Am. 



i. Adlumia fungosa (Ait.) Greene. CLIMBING FUMITORY. ALLEGHANY 

 VINE. (I. F. f. 1672.) Weak, slender, climbing by slender petioles. Leaves 

 bipinnate, the divisions slender-stalked ; ultimate segments lobed or entire, very 

 thin, ovate or cuneate, pale beneath; flowers numerous in axillary drooping cymes, 

 10-14 mm. long, 6 mm. broad at the base, greenish purple; capsule 2-valved. few- 

 seeded. In moist woods and thickets, N. B. to Ont., N. Car. and Tenn. June-Oct. 



9. CAPNOIDES Adan. [CORYDALIS Vent.] (See Appendix.) 



Herbs, with decompound leaves, and racemose flowers. Sepals 2, small. 

 Corolla irregular, deciduous; petals 4, erect-connivent, one of the outer pair spurred 

 at the base, the interior ones narrow, keeled on the back. Stamens 6, in 2 sets, 

 opposite, the outer petals. Placentae 2 ; style entire, dilated or lobed, persistent. 

 Capsule linear or oblong, 2-valved. [Greek, smoke-like, in allusion to the smoke- 

 like odor of some species, as in Fumaria.] About no species, natives of the north 

 temperate zone and South Africa. 



Stems tall; flowers pink with yellow tips. i. C. sempervirens. 



Stems low, diffuse or ascending; flowers yellow. 

 Flowers 6-8 mm. long; spur short. 



Seeds sharp-margined, wrinkled; pods drooping or spreading. 



2. C. flavulum. 



Seeds blunt-margined, smooth, shining: pods ascending. 3. C. micranthum. 

 Flowers 8-16 mm. long ; spur conspicuous. 

 Pods smooth. 



Seeds smooth or obscurely reticulated. 



Capsules spreading or drooping, distinctly tcrulose ; eastern. 



4. C. aureum. 

 Capsules ascending, terete or slightly torulose; western. 



5. C. tnontanum. 

 Seeds finely muriculate ; pods ascending. 6. C. curvisiliquum. 



Pods densely covered with transparent vesicles. 7. C. crystallinum. 



i. Capnoides sempervirens (L.) Borck. PINK CORYDALIS. (I. F. f. 1673.) 

 Glabrous, glaucous, 3-6 dm. high. Lower leaves 2-10 cm. long, short-petioled, 

 the upper nearly sessile, pinnately decompound, the ultimate segments obovate or 

 cuneate, toothed or entire, obtuse, often mucronulate; flowers numerous, 10-16 mm. 

 long, pink with a yellow tip; spur rounded, about 2 mm. long; capsules narrowly 

 linear, erect, 2-5 cm. long, nodose when mature ; seeds shining, minutely reticu- 

 lated. In rocky places, N. S. to Alaska. N. Car. and Minn. April-Sept. 



