DIADELFHiA BENTANDRIA. PetaloStcmum» 
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DIADELFHiA FENTANDRIA. PetaloStcmum» 
Aug. V. V. Flowers white. This singular plant ap- 
pears, at first sight, to belong 4;o the class Syngenesia^ 
and certainly is the connecting link between that class 
and the present. 
Cucullaria. 
II. HEXANDRIA. 
558. CORYDALIS. Vent, choixdepl, I 9 . 
Fumaria. Gen.pl. 1\5A. 
♦ 
* Corollis licalcaratis. Perizomanthi. 
1. C. scapo nudo, racemo simplici secundo, nectariis diva- 
ricatis longitudine corollae, stylo incluso, radice bulbosa. 
— Pers. syn. 2 . p. 26g. 
Fumaria Cucullaria. Willd. sp. pl. 3. p. S5f 
Icon. Bot. mag. 1 127- Roh. ic. 222 . Pluk. aim. t. 90 . 
, /.3. 
On the side of shady hills, in rich vegetable mould, 
among rocks : Canada to Virginia. % . May. v. v. 
Flowers white, with a yellow mouth. This singularly 
constructed flower is known among the inhabitants by 
the name of Breeches -flower or Yellow -breeches ; and 
as 1 consider that all those species with two spurs or 
nectaries might form, with propriety, a good genus, 
I have given it the name of Perixomanthus. 
formosa. 
2 . C. scapo nudo, racemo subcomposito nutante multifloro, 
nectariis brevissimis incurvis, stylo porrecto, laciniis 
foliorum oblongis inciso-pinnatifidis, radice tuberosa. 
Icon. Bot. rep. 3Q3. Bot. mag. 1335. sub Fumaria. 
In Canada, and on the highest peaks of the Virginia and 
Carolina mountains, in the cliffs of shady rocks. 1/ . 
May — July. v. v. Flowers a lively bright red. This 
elegant perennial deserves a place in every collection. 
The Canada plant is somewhat different irx aspect from 
the Virginian, but not sufficiently distinct to make it a 
species. 
tenuifolia. 
3 . C. scapo nudo, racemo simplici nutante paucifloro, nec- 
tariis brevissimis incurvis, stylo longe exerto, foliis te- 
nuissime laciniatis, radice tuberosa. 
On the north-west coast. If. . June, v, s. in Herh 
