WILD FLOWERS OF NEW YORK II9 



drooping cymes; petals four, united into a narrowly ovate-cordate, spongy 

 corolla about one-half of an inch long and one-fourth of an inch broad 

 at the base, four-lobed at the apex, greenish purple, or pink, usually rather 

 persistent, dry and brownish with age; stamens six, united below and 

 adherent to the petals. Fruiting capsule oblong, included in the persistent, 

 dry corolla. 



In moist woods, thickets and shaded cliffs. New Brunswick to Ontario 

 and Michigan, south to North Carolina and Tennessee. Flowering from 

 June to October. Frequent in cultivation. 



Pink or Pale Corydalis 



Capnoides sempervirens (Linnaeus) Borkhausen 



Plate 80 



Stems and leaves glabrous, glaucous, erect or ascending, 6 inches to 

 2 feet high and freely branching. Lower leaves i to 5 inches long, short 

 petioled, the upper leaves sessile or nearly so, all divided into numerous 

 obovate or cuneate segments, toothed or entire, obtuse. Flowers numerous, 

 panicled, borne in cymose clusters at the ends of the branches. Each 

 flower one-half to two-thirds of an inch long, pink or rarely white with a 

 yellow tip; sepals two, small; corolla irregular, deciduous; petals four, 

 erect-connivent, one of the outer pair with a spur at the base about one- 

 eighth of an inch long, the inner pair narrower, keeled at the back. Cap- 

 sules narrowly linear, erect, i to 2 inches long. 



In rocky pl?"es, Nova Scotia to Alaska, Georgia, Minnesota, Montana 

 and British Columbia. Flowering from May to September. 



Two other species of this genus are occasionally found in this State, 

 both with low, diffusely spreading stems and with yellow flowers. They are 

 the Yellow Corydalis (Capnoides flavulum (Rafinesque) Kuntze) 

 with flowers about one-fourth of an inch long and short spurred; and the 

 Golden Corydalis (C. a u r e u m (Willdenow) Kuntze) with flowers 

 slightly more than one-half of an inch long and spurs one-half the length 

 of the corolla. 



