Class XVII. Order II. 263 



yellow. Calyx of two serrate, ovate, acuminate leaves. Corolla 

 placed transversely, its base a single rounded spur, its mouth 

 closed ad consisting of four lips, the t\vo lateral ones coher- 

 ing at their tips. Stamens in two bundles of three each. Germ 

 long, linear, curved upward. Siliques linear, slender. Bien- 

 nial. 



CORYDALIS FUNGOSA. Pers. Climbing Corydalis. 



Stem climbing ; leaves furnished wiih tendrils ; 

 racemes axillary ; corymbs nodding, corollas monope- 

 talous, bigibbous at base. 

 Syn. FUJ\MRIA FUWOOSA. Willd. 



FuMARIA RECTA. MX. 



Stem smooth, striated, climbing. Leaves decompound-pin- 

 nate, the segments twice ternate, the leafets obtusely three 

 lobed, smooth, paler beneath ; the partial petioles reflexed, 

 and serving the purpose of tendrils. Flowers in axillary racemes, 

 pale flesh coloured. Peduncles clavate. Calyx of two minute 

 deciduous leaves. Corolla flesh coloured, oblong ovate, com- 

 pressed, slightly hearted at base, fungus or cellular with two 

 internal cavities, tapering to a neck and ending in two cordate 

 lips, and two smaller lateral spatulate lips cohering at top, with 

 two bundles of three or four stamens each inside. Germ linear 

 with a bifid, four toothed, flabelliforrn stigma. Siliquc many 

 seeded. Brought to the Botanic garden from the State of Maine. 

 It flowers all summer, forming handsome festoons and bovvers. 

 Perennial. 



CORYDALIS CUCULLARIA. Pers. Dutchman's Breeches. 



Scape naked ; raceme simple, one sided ; nectaries 

 two, divaricate, as long as the corolla ; style included ; 

 root tuberous. 



8yil. FffMARld CUCULLARIA. L. 



A delicate, fine leaved plant. Root solid, being a collection 

 of small solid bulbs or tubers, of different sizes inclosed in a 

 common scaly sheath. Leaves radical, somewhat glaucous, 

 ternate, the divisions bipinnate, the last subdivisions linear- 



