114 The Flora of Wiltshire. 



ORDER. FUMARIACE^ (DE CAND.) 



CoRYDALIS, (De CAND.) 



Linn. CI. xvii. Ord. i. 

 Name. Korydalis, the ancient Greek name for Fumitory. From 

 korudalos, a lark, on account of the spurred flower resembling the 

 foot of that bird. 



1. " C. lutea," (Lindl.) yellow Corydalis. Finmria Engl. Bot. t. 

 588. Reich. Icones, t. 6, 4459. 



Locality. Old walls, rare. P. May, August. Area. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



South Division. 



1. South-east District, "Old walls in the neighbourhood of Salis- 

 bury," Mr. James Hussey. 



2. South Middle District, Devizes. 



3. South-west District, "Clay Hill Farm," Miss Griffith. "On a 

 wall at Road Hill," Rev. Edward Peacock, in litt. April 1859. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District, Walls at Corsham. " Chippenham," Dr. 

 R. C. Alexander Prior, and Mr. 0. E. Broome. " Langley Burrell," 

 Mr. C. E. Broome. 



5. North-east District, Old walls at Swindon and Purton. 

 Naturalized on old garden walls in many parts of the county, 



where it has escaped from cultivation. It is a troublesome weed 

 in the flower garden, springing rapidly from seed, which it per- 

 fects in great abundance. 



" C. solida," (Hook) solid, bulbous rooted Corydalis. Engl. Bot. 

 t. 1471. Reich. Icones, t. 7,/. 4462. Has been observed at Great 

 Bedwyn by Mr. William Bartlett, but I fear under circumstances 

 that will scarcely warrant its being considered indigenous or even 

 naturalized. Miss L. Meredith also reports "C. solida," (Hook) as 

 occurring in Stocky Lane, Bromham, 1 but at the same time intima- 



1 It is not improbable that this plant escaped from the garden at Nonsuch 

 House, formerly the residence of the late James Norris, Esq., who devoted his 

 leisure time in studying the " Natural History of bis native county, (Wilts.) 

 He was particularly attached to the study of botany, and contributed much 

 valuable information to the 3rd edition of Dr. Withering's "Arrangement of 

 British plants," published in 1796. ('' This edition of Withering," says the late 

 Sir James Smith, " is the last which its worthy author completed." It is the 

 only one quoted by Sir James himself in the pages of his English Flora. His 



