12 FUMAEIACE^;. 



glabrous above, glaucescent: branches many from the annual root, 

 decumbent at base, 1 ft. high or less, slender, sparingly leafy: leaves 

 small, segments rather few, linear-cuneiform: calyx oblong-conical, Y^ in. 

 long, abruptly slender-pointed: torus short-tubular, \% lines deep; outer 

 margin a mere herbaceous ring, the inner erect, hyaline : petals 1 in. 

 long: seeds with a faint irregular reticulation.— Vaca Mts. to Tamalpais. 



7. E. rhombipetala, Greene. Glaucous and tuberculate-scabrous 

 throughout; stemless or the stems stout, depressed, very leafy, the stout 

 4-angled peduncles little exceeding the subradical leaves: torus sub- 

 cylindrical, with 2 minute approximate scarious margins-: petals % in- 

 long, rhombic-ovate, fugacious: capsules very large for the plant (3 — 4 in. 

 long): seeds large, very distinctly and regularly favose-reticulate. — 

 In grain fields along the eastern foothills of the Mt. Diablo Range. 



ObderVI. FUMARIACE/E. 



Glabrous often glaucous herbs, with watery juice, alternate pinnately 

 or ternately divided or dissected leaves without stipules, and racemose 

 flowers. Sepals 2, small, deciduous. Petals 4, in 2 dissimilar pairs; one 

 or both of the outer ones saccate at base; inner pair cohering by the 

 callous apex and enclosing the anthers and stigma. Stamens 6, 

 hypogynous; filaments in 2 parcels placed opposite the outer petals, 

 usually diadelphous; anther of the middle stamen in each parcel 2-celled, 

 those of the lateral 1-celled. Fruit a several-seeded siliquose 2-valved, 

 1-celled capsule, or indehiscent. 



1. CAPNORCHIS, Boerhaave. Perennials, with tuberiferious or 

 granular or scaly subterranean stem or crown, fibrous rootlets, ternately 

 or pinnately compound leaves, and racemose or paniculate flowers. 

 Corolla flattened and cordate; the two outer petals larger, saccate or 

 spurred at base. 



1. C. formosa (Andr.), O. Ktze. Eootstock rather large, creeping, 

 nearly naked: leaves and scapes 2 ft. high, the former twice or thrice 

 pinnately compound, the final divisions incisely pinnatifld: fl. compound- 

 racemose at summit of the naked scape: corolla rose-purple, ovate-cordate, 

 with short spreading tips to the larger petals. — Common in the woods of 

 Marin Co. April— June. 



2. C. chrysantha (H. & A.), Planch. Very glaucous: leaves bipin- 

 nate, the larger a foot long, the divisions cleft into few and narrow 

 lobes: stem leafy, 2—5 ft. high, ending in a large racemose panicle of 

 yellow flowers: corolla linear-oblong, only slightly cordate. — Santa Cruz 

 Mts. and Mt. Diablo. May— July. 



