Puate LITI. 
CORYDALIS sorta, Hook. 
Natural Order PaPAVERACE®. 
Gun. Coar.—Sepals 2 (sometimes wanting), minute, like those of 
Fumaria. Petals 4, irregular, of the two outer ones the uppermost has 
a pouch or spur at the base. -Pod’many-seeded. Seeds lenticular. 
Spec. Coar.—lowers in a terminal raceme ; bracts digitately lobed ; 
pedicels (in specimens) shorter than the pods by one-half or one-third 
‘(“pédicelles aussi longs que la capsule,” Gren. et Godr.). Upper petal 
emarginate. Style angularly bent during flowering. Leaves biternately 
cut, segments lanceolate. Stem furnished with a scale below the leaves. 
Rootstock tuberous, solid, subglobular. 
Corydalis solida, Hook. Brit. Fl. (ed. 4) i. 265; Gren. et Godr. FI. 
de Fr. i. 64; Woods, Tour. Fl. p. 13. C. digitata, Pers. Syn. Plant. ii. 
269. C. bulbosa, DC. FI. Fr. iv. 637. d 
Harirat.—Collected by my father on Mount Aggel, near Mentone, 
April 6th, 1865. 
Remarxs.—Corydalis solida, Hook., is a plant closely allied to C. 
fabacea, Pers. This latter, however, has a raceme of small flowers, 
which are almost hidden among the bracts, and, as its name imports, 
has broad leaf-lobes, each of which is almost as broad as long, and re- 
sembles the leaflet of the Bean. 
I am indebted to the Rev. Wm. Hawker for a specimen of C. fabacea, 
Pers., from the Monte Rotondo in Corsica. This is a plant which should 
be searched for among the mountains of the Riviera. Our Mentonese 
form of C. solida, Hook., appears to differ from the type described by 
Grenier and Godron, Koch, and others, in its much longer pod. 
The structure of the flower of Corydalis is rather complex, but is one 
adapted for insect fertilization, as the spur contains an attractive de- 
posit of nectar. 
_ Mr. Darwin* gives the following account of OC. cava, Schweigg. (C. 
tuberosa, DC.) :— , 
“Corydalis tuberosa properly has one of its two nectaries colourless, 
destitute of nectar, only half the size of the other, and therefore, to a 
certain extent, in a rudimentary state; the pistil is curved towards the 
perfect nectary, and the hood, formed of the inner petals, slips off the 
pistil and stamens in one direction alone, so that, when a bee sucks the 
perfect nectary, the stigma and stamens are exposed and rubbed 
against the insect’s body. In several closely-allied genera, as in Di- 
elytra, etc., there are two perfect nectaries, the pistil is straight, and the 
* © Animals and Plants under Domestication,’ ii. 58, 
