Conjfluluf. FUMARIACE.E. 97 



Coulter, Mau. Rocky Mt. Reg. U. — l?liu' Mountains and Enf^lo Cn-i-k Range, along alpine 

 watercourses, Cusi<k, 1877; W. Malio, on the ridge aUovc Clearwater, W'aison, lnH). 

 Largest leaves :i feet long. 



C. Brandegei, Watson, 1. c. Stem.s 2 to 5 feet higii : dornal i-rest of the ho«)dK oltnolL-te 

 anil rounded summit not eniarginatc, hut margins roi-urve<l : capt<ulej< Hliort-uviil to ohloiig, 

 oblusc, reHe.xed on the asceuding pedicels: seeds with a small ariilifonu ercst. — Ci.ulti r, 

 1. c. — Mountains of S. W. Colorado, liraudeyte, 1874, Lieul. McCauley, 1877; Utah, in tlif 

 Wasatcii Mouutains, at about 10,000 feet, on rather dry banks, M. E. Jimis, 18"'J, llookrr &. 

 Grai/, 1887. 

 § 3. Annuals or (chiefly) biennials, mostly branclRd from the Iklsu, with fiin-ly 



dissected leaves and siliqiiilorm capsule. 



* Stem strict: flowers purple or rose-colored with yellow tips. 



C. glauca, Pdrsh. a foot or two high, except in depauperate specimens, very glaucous: 

 lobes of the leaves mostly sjjatulate : racemes short, panicled at the naked summit of the 

 liranches: flowers barely half inch long: spur short and roundeil : capsnie .^lender and 

 linear; seeds minutely rugulose transversely. — Fl. ii. 4f>:^ ; Hook. P^l. Bor.-Ain. i.37; Torr. 

 & Gray, Fl. i. 69. Fnmaria sempervirens, L. Spec. ii. 700, but in no way evergreen. F.plnura, 

 Curtis, Bot. Mag. t. 179. Capnoide.s sempervirens, Borkli. in Hum. 1. c. 44. Corydalls sem- 

 pervirens, Pers. Syn. ii. 269. — Rocky or sterile ground, Nova Scotia t<» the northern Rocky 

 Mountains (and even to Brit. Columbia and Arctic Coast), south to Tcxits; fl. summer. 

 * * Low, ascending or diffuse : flowers yellow : apparently all biennials or winter-aTinuals, 

 but a common western one seemingly more enduring.' 

 H— Hood or sac of the outer petals at most cariuate but not wing-crested upon the back. 



C. aurea, Willd. Comnu)nly low and sj)readiug : flowers golden yellow, about li;i" 

 long, on rather slender ])eilirels in a sliort raceme ; spur l)arely lialf the length of tl 

 somewhat decurved : capsules spreading or pendulous, about inch long, terete, i 

 when dry, lO-12-seeded : seeds turgid, obtuse at margin, the shining surface ouscurtiv it- 

 ticulat.^d. — Enum. 740; DC. Syst. ii. 12.5, partly; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 37 ; Torr. &. (iniy, 

 Fl. i. 68, mainly; Gray, Gen. 111. I. 124, t. 52, & Man. 29. C. aurea, var. inirrantlia, Wats. 

 Bot. King Exp. 14. C. aurea, var. macmutlui. Wood, Bot. & Fl. 34. Fauhnii aurea, Ker, 

 Bot. Reg. t. 66.* — Rocky banks, Lower Canada and N. New England, northwest nanl to Int. 

 61°, west to Brit. Columbia and Oregon, scmth to Texiis, Arizona. (Adj. Mex., but n.^ 

 Ja])ai'i.) Western forms with spur almost as long as the body of the corolla and passing 

 into 



Var. OCCidentalis, Engelm. More erect and cespitose, from a stouter and some- 

 times more enduring r(Jot: flowers rather larger and s]»ur (almost as long as the body) 

 commonly ascending : capsules thicker, less tonilose, sometimes miiuitely prninos.'. i - 

 incurved-ascendiug on short spreading pedicels : seeds less turgid and aculish at the n; 

 — Engelm. in Gray (PI. Fendl. 6), Man. ed. 5, 62. C. wmitana, Kngclm. I. c. ; Wo.,,;, i: ... 

 & Fl. 34.8 — Colorado, New Mexico, W^. Texa-s, Arizona. (Adj. Me.\.) The typical form 

 of this (well represented by Pringle's 198 from Chihuahua, and the plant about El Paso) by 

 itself seems quite specifically distinct, and nearly approaches the next species. 



C. CUrvisiliqua, Exgklm. Commonly robust, ascending or erect, a f«Mit or less hich : 

 flowers golden yellow, ovser lialf inch long, in a spiciforin raceme; spur equjilling t' 

 in length, commonly' ascending: capsules rather stout, quatlr.mgnlar, inch and a In 

 2 lines thick, incurved-a.«icending orstraighti.sh on verj- short and thickish diverging j ■ 

 seeds turgid-lenticular with acute margins, the surface thickly and minutely muricul.iii. — 

 Engelm. in Gray, Man. ed. 5, 63. C. auren, var. curvisiliqua. Gray, Pro<-. Acail. Phila«i. 

 1863, .57 (but the plant of Hall & Harbour is rather C. nurea, vnr. orcithtilivi'' • - - • 

 var.,Gr.ay. PI. Wright, ii. lO,'* — Woods and thickets. New Braunfels, &c.. Ton 

 -1— -»— \ conspicuous wing-liko crest on the Imck of the IkhmI or sa( if tfi. • 

 developed in cleistogamous flowers). 



1 For Dr. Gr.ay'.s preliminary treatment of tliis difTicult pronp, -spc 1' 



2 Add syn. Capnnides aurcum , Kuntze, ncc. to Rritton, Mem. Torr. CI;!,, \. i'^'.. 

 * Add .syn. Capnoides monUinum, Rritton, 1. r. 166. 



4 .\iM svn. Cnjmoidi's rurviiiUquum, Kuntze. ace. to Uiition. 1. o. 



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