50 SELECTED WESTERN FLORA 



2. D. azureum, Michx. Prairie Larkspur. 



Stem 1-2 ft. high, grayish, pubescent; leaves deeply 3-5-parted, the divi- 

 sions also deeply cleft into narrow linear lobes; flowers sky-blue. South of 

 Lake Winnipeg (Dr. Houghton). Plains near Wood Mountain (Dawson). 

 Cypress Hills (Macoun). Prairies and foothills of Alta. 



XXXI. BERBERIDACE.ffi. 



Shrubs or herbs with colorless juice but sometimes yellow wood ; 

 leaves with petioles dilated at the base or stipulate; flowers regular, 

 hypogenous, perfect, symmetrical, usually 3-merous, the parts dis- 

 tinct, deciduous, and each arranged in 2 series. 



1. BERBERIS. Baeberry. 



Flowers small, yellow, mostly in racemes and scented, the fila- 

 ments sensitive. Shrubs with yellow bitter wood and inner bark. 



, 1. B. repens, Lindl. 



Dwarf, less than 1 ft. high; leaflets 3-7, glaucous, obtuse, weakly spiny- 

 toothed. Crow's-nest Pass, Rocky Mts. (Dawson). 



XXXII. FUMARIACE.® (Fumitory Family). 



Smooth succulent herbs with compound much-dissected leaves 

 and irregular flowers. Sepals 2, small; petals 4, in two pairs, the 

 one pair with spreading tips, and one or both spurred, the other pair 

 narrow with the tips united over the stigma; stamens 6, in two sets 

 of 3 each, opposite the larger petals, hypogenous; pods 1-celled and 

 1 or many-seeded. Harmless herbs. 



1. CORtDALIS. 



CoroUa 1-spurred, deciduous; style persistent; pod many-seeded; 

 flowers in racemes. Leafy glaucous herbs. 



1. C. afirea, Willd. Golden Cortdalis. 



Usually spreading; corolla golden yellow, about § in. long, spur barely 

 half the length of the body of the corolla. Waste places and newly cleared 

 land, Man.-Alta. 



Var. occidentUis, Engelm. With spur almost as long as the body o{ 

 corolla. Prairies, Alta. 



