

BLEEDING HEART FAMILY. Fumariaceae. 
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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. uniflora 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- 
ee some plant is striking and Japanese in 
sib Gamal effect, and the coloring of the feathery, 
(Dicentra) pale-green foliage and the golden-yellow 
Yellow flowers is exceedingly odd and beautiful. 
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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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