48 FUMARIACEiE. Cohtdalis. 



3. CORYDALIS. DC. syst. 2. p. 113; Endl. gen. 4839. 



\Conj<Udii is ihc Greek name for Fomitory.] 



Corolla with only one of the exterior petals (the posterior one) spurred at the base. Style 

 mostly persistent; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule pod-shaped; few or many-seeded. Seeds 

 lenticular, black and shining, strophiolale. — Racemes terminal or opposite the leaves, sim- 

 ple : pedicels without bracteoles. 



1. CoRYDALis AUREA, WUld. Goldeu Corydolis. 



Annual or biennial ; stem diffuse; leaves somewhat glaucous, bipinnately divided ; ultimate 

 Bfigments oblong, acute ; bracts lanceolate or ovale, acuminate ; pods terete, torulose. — 

 Willd.enum.p.l\0; DC.prodr. l.p. 123; Pursh, Jl. 2. p. A63 ; Hook.fl.Bor.-Am. l.p.37; 

 Darlingt.Jl. Cest. p. 400; Torr. ^ Gr.jl. N. Am. l.p. 68. Fumaria aurea, Ker, hot. reg. 

 (.66. 



Root fibrous. Stems branching, 6-12 inches long, slender. Leaves thin and deUcatc, 

 divided into rather narrow oblong segments. Racemes terminal and opposite the leaves, or 

 supra-axillary, 5 - 15-flowered. Flower golden yellow; the early ones (especially in shady- 

 places) 3 — 4 lines, the later three-fourths of ^n inch long. Bracts variable in form and size, 

 at first longer than the pedicels, but shorter at maturity, often with one or two teeth. Petals 

 distinct : spur incurved, about one-fourth as.long as the rest of the petal. Stigma with 2 

 spreading lobes. Pods three-fourths of an inch long, strongly iorulose. Seeds obovoid- 

 lenticular, highly polished, with a short incurved beak, and a conspicuous membranaceous 

 strophiole. 



Rocky woods. April - September. Not rare. 



2. CoRYDALis GLAUCA, Pursh. Glaucous ConjdalU. 



Plant erect, glaucous,, annual or biennial ; leaves bipinnately divided ; ultimate segments 

 cuneiform, somewhat 3-clefi ; racemes often clustered ; bracts linear, shorter than the pedicels ; 

 pods long, terete, scarcely torulose. — Pursh, fl. 2. p. 463; DC. prodr. 1. p. 128; Hook, 

 ft. Bor-Am. 1. p. 37 ; Darlingt.Jl. Cest. p. 605,- Torr. <^ Gr.jl. N.Am. l.p. 69. Fumaria 

 sempervirens, Linn.; Michx.jl. 2. p. 51. F. glauca, Bot. mag. t. 179. 



Stem 1-2 feet high, more or less brandling. Leaves 1-3 inches long ; the radical ones 

 clustered, on long petioles. Racemes 6 - 10-flower,ed, the flowers 6-7 lines in length, 

 spreading somewhat horizontally. Calyx purple. Corolla bright rose-color, tinged with yellow 

 and green ; the spur short and obtuse. Stigma with spreading lobes. Pods an inch and a 

 half long ; the valves at length separating from the persistent placentae. Seeds lenlicular- 

 rcniform, shining, but marked with fine rugx in a radiating manner : strophiole small and 

 spongy. 



Rocky hills and river banks ; rather common. May - August. An ornamental plant. 



