94 FUMARIACEJ:. Dkemra. 



norchis, Borkh. 1. c. Diclytra, DC. Syst. ii. 1 07. Dielytra, Hook. Fl. Bur.-Am. 

 i. 35. Capnorchis (Boerh.), Planch. Fl. Serres, viii. 828. Bicucullata, Juss. 

 fide L. Gen. ed. 6, no. 841).-' (Much uouki liave been saved if Bernhardi had 

 taken the name Capnorchis.) 



§ 1. CUCULLAKIA. Acaulesceut" and scapose : corolla white or tipped with 

 cream-color or flesh-color, flattened: a gland or gibbosity at base of middle fila- 

 ments, the more conspicuous as the nectariferous petals are more saccate : seeds 

 crested. — Capnorckis, Boerh. Ind. Alt. PI. Hart. Lugd.-Bat. 309, not Borkh. 

 Bicucullata or Cucullaria, Juss. 



* Inflorescence .simple aud racemiform, several-one-flowered, the uppermost flower earliest: 

 petioles aud scapes a span high : leaves ternately decompound, tlie lobes linear or nearly 

 so. — jyicentra, Bernh. Linntea, viii. 468. 

 D. TEXUiFOLiA, DC. (that is, Diclytra tenuifolia & D. lachennliajlora, DC. Syst. ii. 110, 

 Cori/dalis tenuifolia, Fursh), described from Pallius's specimens, belongs to the Asiatic coast and 

 is not know-n on the American side. It is distinguished by its fibrous roots from a small root- 

 stock, very much and finely dissected leaves, the divisions very narrow, acute, and crowded, 

 1-5-flowered scape, corolla nearly an inch. long, the narrow upper half of the outer petals 

 recurving. 



D. pauciflora, Watson. A span or more high from thickish-filiform and fleshy creei)iiig 

 and branching rootstocks which bear small granular bulblets: leaves small, 2-3-ternate and 

 tlie divisions laciniately subpinnatifid into lanceolate- or spatulate-linear lobes : scape bearing 

 2 or -3 or sometimes solitary nodding flowers : corolla almost inch long, white or sliglitly 

 fle.~h-colored, withering-persi:?tent ; outer petals with saccate spar and linear-oblong recurving 

 tip considerably shorter than the body ; inner witli ligulate claw abruptly contracted at apex 

 into a short stalk, which abruptly dilates into the elongated ligulate-spatulate lamina : style 

 elongated. — Bot. Calif, ii. 429. — N. California, Jiear snow on Scott Mountains, in summer, 

 G refine ; also, at less elevation, near Castle Lake, Lemmon.^ 

 D. uniflora, Kellogg. Smaller, 2 to 4 inches high, from a fascicle of narrow-fusiform 

 and pei-peudicular fleshy tubers : leaves less com])Ound and lobes more spatulate : scape 

 1-2-flowered : flower seemingly erect, half incli long ; outer petals merely gibbous-saccate at 

 ba.«ie, their spatulate-linear recurving tips very much longer than the body ; inner with 

 lamina dilated and hastate at base directly from the oblong-lmear claw : style short. — I'roc. 

 Calif. Acad. Sci. iv. 141, with fig.; Brew". & AVats. Bot. Calif, i. 24; Coulter, Man. Rocky 

 Mt. Reg. 14. — Sierra Nevada, California, near Cisco and Sierra Valley, Kellof/u, Lemmon ; 

 high mountains of Wyoming and Utah, Coulter, C'hadbourne, &c. ; Mt. Adams, Washing- 

 ton, Sulcsdorf. 

 D. Canadensis, DC. (SoriRRKL-coRN.) A span or two high, from filiform creeping 

 mot stocks bearing clusters of golden yellow fleshy grains about the size of those of Indian 

 corn (each the t1'i>rKened base of a petiole or in place of it) : leaves usually once or twice 

 ternately and then quinatcly compound, then pinnately parted into linear divisions : scape 

 bearing few or several nodding fragrant flowers : corolla pearl-white or tinged with rose, 

 tardily deciduous, at most inch long, cordate in outline (the saccate bases short and round- 

 i.<h), outer petals connivent up to the short ovate-saccate spreading tips ; inner conspicu- 

 ously wing-crested on the back at summit. — Prodr. i. 126 {Diclytra); Hook. Bot. Slag, 

 t. 3031 (Dielytra); Torr. & Gray, Fl. i, 67 (Dieli/tra) ; Gray, Gen. 111. i. 120. t. .50. 

 D. eximia. Beck, Bot. 23 (Diclytra). D. eximia, var.. Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 3.5 (Dielytra) ; 

 Darlingt. Fl. Ce.st. 399 (Dielytra). Corydnlis formo.sa, FuTsh,'F\. u. 4e,2, Tpurily. C. Cana- 

 densis. Gt)ldie, Edinb. Phil. .Jour. vi. 330; Thom.a.s, Am. Jour. Sci. xxvi. 114, with plate.8 — 

 Woods in vegetable mould. Nova Scotia to Michigan, Penns'U .inla :in(l Kinitnoky, but 

 chiefly northward ; fl. spring. 



1 Add sj'n. Capn'iTchis & Capnode.i, Greene, Fl. Francis. 278, 280. 



2 Reported by Coville (Contrib. U. S. Nnt. Herb. iv. 60) from near Mineral King, Tulare Co., 

 Calif., wliieh greatly extend.s the ranjre of the species. 



8 .\dd syn. BicncHlla Cana<len.'ns, Millsf). Fl. W. Va. 327. 



