Nearly allied to D. formosa, with which it has been confounded; but distinguished
by its less compound raceme, broader flowers, shorter wings of the
inner petals, and entire stigma. D. formosa appears to be confined to the
mountains of the Southern States.
5. D. lachenaliafolia (D C .): spur very short and obtuse; scape 3-4-
flowered; pedicels longer than the calyx; leaves many-cleft, with linear very
acute lobes. DC. syst. 2. p. I l l ; Hook. fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 36. Fumaria
tenuifoha, Ledeb. in mem. acad. St. Petersb. 5. (1815) p. 550; Cham. &
Schlecht. in Linncea, 1. p. 558.
Islands near the coast of extreme N. W. America, Pallas. Also found
in Siberia and Kamtschatka.—Rhizoma fleshy, horizontal. Leaves several
on long petioles; lo)>es crowded, linear, attenuated at' each end. Scapes
several, 3-6 inches high. Flowers purple, 2-3, in a short loose raceme, the
lower ones pendulous, the upper one erect. Pedicels variable in length,
often 3-4 lines long (sometimes 5 lines, Cham. <f Schlecht.). Corolla 8 lines
long. DC. -Stigma 5-toothed. Pallas—We have seen no specimens of
this plant. The preceding species should be compared with it.
D. tenuifolia, DC. syst. 2. p. 110. ( Corydalis tenuifolia, Pursh) not baying, been
found on the N. W. coast, as was supposed by Pursh, but in Kamtschatka, is omitted
from our Flora; as is likewise D. bracteosa, DC. 1. c., another very doubtful native
of N. America.
2. ADLUMIA. R a f. in Desv.jour. hot. 2. p. 169; DC.
Petals united into a spongy persistent monopetalous corolla, bigibbous at
the base, 4-lobed at the apex. Capsule pod-shaped, linear-oblong, many-
seeded—Herbaceous, climbing by the cirrhose petioles. Flowers in supra-
axillary racemose cymes.
A. cirrhosa (Raf. 1. c.)—DC. syst. 2. p. I l l ; Darlingt. fl. Cest. p 399
Corydalis fungosa, Vent, choix. t. 19; Pursh ! Jl. 2. p. 463. Fumaria fungosa,
Willd. sp. 3. p. 857. F. recta, Michx. fl. 2. p. 51.
Shady rocky places, and along streams, Canada! to N. Carolina! July-
■ Sept. (2) Stem 8—15^ feet long, branching and climbing over shrubs and
other plants. Leaves biternately divided; the primary divisions distant ; petioles
twining like tendrils; ultimate segments obovate-cuneiform incisely
2-3-lobed, petiolulate. Flowers numerous, pedicellate, pale violet, or nearly
white. Filaments united below into a tube, distinct above. Capsule included
in the marcescent corolla. Seeds 4-8, reniform-globose, somewhat compressed.
3. CORYDALIS. DC. syst. 2. p. 113.
Only one of the exterior petals spurred at the base. Capsule pod-shaped,
few- or many-seeded: style persistent.—Cauline leaves few or numerous.
Racemes simple, terminal or opposite the leaves: pedicels ebracteolate.
§ 1. Annual or biennial, with fibrous w o ts : stems branching, lea fy : pods
linear, many-seeded.—Capnites, DC. (partly.)
1. C. aurea (Willd.): stem diffuse; leaves somewhat glaucous; bipinnate;
ultimate segments oblong, acute; bracts lanceolate or ovate, acuminate •
pods terete torulose.— Willd. enum. p. 740; DC. prodr. 1. p. 128-
P u rsh ' H. 2. p. 463; Hook.! fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 37. C. flavula, R a f. in
Desv. 'jour. bat. 2. p. 224; DC. 1. c. Fumaria aurea, Ker hot. reg. t. 66.
Rocky woods, Canada! to Georgia! west to Arkansas I Missouri! & the
Rocky Mountains. April-Aug,—Q) or © Stem 6-12 inches long. Leaves
slender finely divided. Racemes terminal, and opposite the leaves or supraaxillary,
5-15-flowered. Flowers varying in size, in shady situations and
early in the season often scarcely 4 lines in length; but in open places and
in mature plants nearly three-fourths of an inch long, golden yellow. Bracts
often longer than the pedicels, and sometimes even extending'beyondAhe-
flower. Petals distinct, spur incurved. Stigma small, with 2 spreading
lobes. Pods 8-10 lines long, and a line in diameter, smooth or rarely (in
specimens from Arkansas) hispid.—W e have seen the pollen-tubes__very
distinctly in this plant, even in specimens collected many years ago.
2. C. glauca (Pursh): erect, very glaucous ; leaves bipinnate; ultimate
segments cuneiform, somewhat 3-lobed ; racemes often clustered; bracts
linear, shorter than the pedicels ; pods scarcely torulose.—Pursh, fl. 2. p.
463; DC. prodr. l.p . 128 ; Hook. ! fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 37. Fumaria sem-
pervirens, L in n .; Michx. Jl. 2. p. 51. F. glauca, Bot. mag. 179.
Rocky places, Canada ! to N. Carolina! May—July. (5) or (2) Stem 1—
2 feet high, much branching. ' Raceme short, 6-lO-flpwered. Sepals purple.
Petals rose-color and yellow; the inner ones with slender claws: spur short,
rounded. Stigma with small somewhat spreading lobes. Pods I f inch
long ; the valves at length separating from the persistent placentae. -
§2. Perennial: stem simple, rising from a large and thickened almost
ligneous root (rhizoma?) : cauline leaves* 1-2 : “pods ovate or elliptical,
2-4-seeded, opening elastically, the valves rolling back to the base.
—Halticosia,”* Nutt, mss:
3. C. Scouleri (Hook.) : raceme nearly simple, shorter than the almost solitary
3-4-pinnate le a f; leaflets oval or oblong, oblique, decurrent, entire or
lobed; bracts oblong, longer than the pedicels. Hook. fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 36. t.
14. C. paeoniaefolia, Pers. syn. 2. p. 269? ; DC. 1. c. ? ex Hook.
Deep shady woods, N. W. America: plentiful near the confluence of the
Oregon, .with thé sea, Dr. Scouler—Root tortuous, scaly at the neck.
Leaves very few (blackish when dry), one or more rather small radical ones ;
the lower cauline one very large ; the upper small. Flowers rosë-color, pendulous,
1—14 inch in length, in a loose raceme : spur straight, attenuated, twice
the length of the petals: pedicels strongly curved downwards after flowering.
Stigma capitate, apiculate. Hook.—We are suspicious that both this and the
succeeding species will prove to be identical with C. paeoniaefolia of Siberia
and Kamtschatka, which extends, according to Chamisso, nearly to America;
but the question can only be decided by comparison with the original specimens
in Willdenow’s herbarium. The raceme, according to Hooker, is
more compound in that species than in C. Scouleri; but Chamisso remarks
(Linncea, l.p . 563.) that the racemes in his specimens are more commonly
simple.
4. C. macrophylla (Nutt.! mss.) : “ raceme simple, shorter than the biternately
pinnate leaves; leaflets linear-oblong, straight; bracts linear, longer
than the pedicels.
* “To this section belongs Q. impatiens, DC. and perhaps some other species.”
Nutt.