06 ^ FUMARTACEiE. Dicenlra. 



Bot. Mex. Bound. 32 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 24. Capnorchis chiysantha, Planchon, 

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

 first coll. by Douglas ; fl. summer. 

 D. OChxoleuca, Engelm. Flowers an inch long, ocliroleucons ; only the tips of the outer 

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

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

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

 Bernardino Co., Ljjoii.^ 



3. COIl"^DALIS, Vent. (KopvSaAAis, Latin Corydalm, 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, & 

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

 CorydaUs, Dill.), «fec. 



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

 C- pauciflora, Pers. A sj)an high, from a simple or double oblong tuber, l-3-leaved below : 



leavc.-i 1 -2-tcrnately divided or jjarted ; divisions obovato or spatulate, mostly entire ; raceme 



capituliforra, 2-7-tlowered, 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 pancijlora, Steph. in Willd. Spec. iii. 861. — N. Alaska 



and Islands. (E. Siberia to Caucasus.) 



C. amhi'gua, Cham. & Schlecht., comes as near as Arakamtcliem Island, on the Asiatic side 

 of Bering Strait, Wriyht. 



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

 leaves and many-flowefed 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. p(eonuffolia,FeTS., 

 Si C. girjantea, 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 bluisli 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 d(irsal crest : mature fruit unknown, tlie forming capsules barely half inch long, 

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

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

 Big Spring district in Plumas Co., Bolander,E. L. Case, Lemmon, Mrs.Ausfin, Mrs. Bidv^ell, 

 Pnrrif. 



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

 of inner petals violet ; hood of outer petals emarginate 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" (Cusich); seeds nearly smooth with a conspicuous orbicular carunculate crest. — 



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



