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BICCCULUA. 



stigma divided into 4-6 linear unequal, divergent lobes. Capsule 

 elongated, strongly 10-nerved, dehiscent the whole length, usual- 

 ly from the bottom, by two valves separating from the placental 

 ribs : many seeded. Seeds globular, reticulated or rough tubercu- 

 late. 



E. Uouglasii Benth. PI. Hartw. 296. Perennial, smooth and glaucous, 

 1-2 feet high, rather stout and branching : leaves ternate to triternate, fine- 

 ly divided into oblong-linear lobes : flowers bright yellow, 2 inches in diam- 

 eter, on pedicels 4-6 inches long : torus dilated and broadly rimmed : cap- 

 gule 2-3 inches long, curved : seeds reticulated. Gravelly hillsides and 

 j-iver banks, Oregon and California. 



E. hypecoldes, Benth. Trans. Hort. Sec. Ser. 2, i, 408. Annual: stems 

 slender, paniculately branched from the base : leaves small, mostly pin- 

 nately 5-foliolate ; leaflets finely divided into linear lobes : flowers small, not 

 over an inch in diameter, light yellow, on peduncles 1-3 inches long ; torus 

 but little dilated, and very narrowly rimmed : capsule 1-2 inches long by a 

 line in diameter, tipped with filiform stigmas : seeds reticulate rugose. 

 On openhillsides near Wolf Creek, Josephine county, Oregon, to California. 



Order VI. P.UMARIACE^, DC, Syst. ii, 105. 



Tender herbs with watery and bland juice, dissected compound 

 leaves, and perfect hypogynous flowers. Sepals 2, small aud 

 hyaline. . Petals 4, que or two of them spurred. Stamens 6, 

 diadelphipus. Capsule one-celled with two parietal placentae. 

 Seeds anatropous, with minute embryo in copious albumen. 



1 Bicnculla. Corolla 2-spurred : the two outer and larger petals 

 similar. 



2 Corydalis. Corolla with only one of the outer .petals spurred. 



1 BICUCULLA Adans. Fam. PL ii. 23. 

 DICENTRA Bernh. Unnxa, viii, 557, 468. 



Smooth pereniiials with tuberiferous or granuliferous subter- 

 ranean base, or running rootstocks, ternately or pinnately com- 

 pound leaves and racemous or paniculate flowers. Sepals 2, 

 small and scale-like. Corolla flattened and cordate, at least at 

 base, of two pairs of petals, the outer pair larger, saccate or 

 spurred at base, the tips spreading; the inner much narrower, 

 spoon-shaped, mostly carinate or crested on the back ; the small 

 ' hollowed tips slightly united at the apex, the two forming a cavity 

 . which contains the anthers and stigma. Stamens 6, in two sets ; 

 the filaments slightly adhering in the middle : the middle anther 

 2-celled; the lateral ones 1-eelledi ■ Style slender persistent: stig- 

 ma 2-lobed ; each lobe sometimes 2-cregted or horned. Capsule 

 narrow, 1-celled, with 2 filiforni parietal placentae, from which 

 the valves at maturity separate. 



I B. formosa. Dicentra (Diclylra) formosa DC. Syst-. ii, 109. Stems and 

 scapes from the apex. of thickish, and almost naked creeping rootstock, a 

 span to a foot or more high: leaves twice or thrice ternately compound, 

 the ultimate divisions narrow and incisely pinnatifid : flowers in compound 

 racemes at the summit of the naked scapes: corollas ovate-cordate with 

 rounded somewhat connivent spurs and short spreading tips to the larger 



