BLEEDING HEART FAMILY. Fumariaceae. 



rootstock and grows in shady spots, in rich, moist woods, 

 at moderate altitudes, but is not very common. It is 

 found in the Yosemite Valley. B. uniflbra is a diminutive 

 alpine plant, from one to three inches high, usually with 

 only one white or flesh-colored flower, about half an inch 

 long, which is often hidden among dead leaves. This 

 grows in rich soil on mountain sides in the Wasatch and 

 Teton Mountains and in the Sierra Nevada, and is found 

 in the Yosemite Valley and on Mt. Lyall, at a height of 

 ten thousand five hundred feet. This is called Squirrel 

 Corn and Steer's Head. 



The general appearance of this hand- 

 Golden Eardrops some lant ig striking and Japanese in 



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chrysdntha effect, and the coloring of the feathery, 



(Dicenira) pale-green foliage and the golden-yellow 



Yellow flowers is exceedingly odd and beautiful. 



Summer Th j finely-cut leaves are sometimes 



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a foot long, and resemble delicate ferns, 



and the smooth, stout, rather coarse flower-stems bear a 

 few pretty flowers, which are a soft shade of yellow, about 

 three-quarters of an inch long, the usual Bleeding Heart 

 shape, but not drooping, and with a strong narcotic odor, 

 much like that of poppies. This is sometimes as much as! 

 four feet high and grows in sunny places on dry ridges in 

 the Coast Ranges, but is nowhere common. 



There 'are many kinds of Capnoides, natives of the 

 north temperate zone and Africa. They have oddly- 

 shaped flowers, something like Bleeding Heart, but with 

 only one spur, at the back on the upper side, instead of two. 

 The name is from the Greek, meaning "smokelike, " in 

 allusion to the odor of some kinds. 



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