_Poppy Family_
Herbs with milky or coloured sap and alternate leaves or the upper
rarely opposite, flowers perfect, regular or irregular; sepals 2,
rarely 3 or 4, soon falling off; petals 4—6 or rarely more, folded
together, often wrinkled; stamens numerous.
[Illustration: _a_ Delphinium Menziesii DC. Blue Larkspur.
_b_ Lithophragma parviflora (Hook.) Nutt. Lithophragma.
(¾ Nat.)]
[Sidenote: =Capnodes aureum= (Willd.) Kuntze. _Golden Corydalis._]
Smooth, 4—12 inches long, diffusely branching. Leaves all but the
uppermost petioled, finely cut into oblong-obovate or wedge-shaped
segments. Flowers numerous in an oblong head, bright golden yellow,
nearly half an inch long; spur ½ the length of the body of the corolla,
outer petals keeled, not crested; pods spreading or pendulose,
torulose; seeds obtuse, margined, shining, obscurely ridged.
Frequent throughout the Rockies in open ground at the lower altitudes
where it has been recently burned or cleared; flowering during most of
the summer.