DUTCHMAN'S BREECHES (Dicentra Cucullaria), a North American plant of the fumitory family (Fumariaceae), known also by various local names, as butterfly-banner, boys and-girls, ear-drops and soldier's cap, native to woods from Nova Scotia to South Dakota and southward to North Carolina and Kansas. It is a smooth, delicate plant, rising from a granulated bulb, with the slender-stalked, finely dissected leaves, appearing to spring from the surface of the ground. In shape the irregular flowers, about a in. broad, re semble a pair of baggy trousers, whence the popular name. The flowers are white or pinkish, tipped with yellow, and hang tremulously from a slender stalk, 5 in. to 1 o in. long. This plant, which blossoms abundantly in early spring, is one of the most dainty of North American wild flowers. (See DICENTRA.)