CORYDALIS. 
masses so handsome that they can be divided at will, or multiplied 
from fresh-ripened seed sown at the end of August. In the garden 
their favourite flowering moment seems to be July. 
Corydalis.—aA large race of rock or woodland plants, bulbous 
or tuberous, all for cultivation in half-sunny places in light, rich 
soil. There are countless species; all have beautiful foliage, ample 
and usually suggestive of blue-grey maiden-hair; and some have 
spikes of fine size or colour. See Appendix. 
C. angustifolia, a frailer more delicate C. solida, with pink flowers, 
each about an inch long, with the lobes of the leaves much narrower. 
(Woods of South Russia.) 
C. australis, clear pink, about 8 inches high. 
C. bracteata, for sunny or half shady places; foliage glaucous, 
and flowers pale yellow, with touches of green in the spike. Six 
inches. (A plant of Altai.) 
C. bulbosa, or cava, very near C. solida, but that the bulb is hollow. 
(European Alps.) 
C. capnoeides from 8. Europe, is an early bloomer, with yellow 
flowers on a 6-inch stem. 
C. cashmiriana, about 6 inches, with the basal leaves soon dying. 
The flowers are half an inch long, rich blue with darker tips. (Sikkim- 
Kashmir, 9000 to 12,000 feet.) 
C. caucasica.—Like a finer, larger, looser C. solida, with purple 
blossoms. 
C. cheilanthifolia, a rather handsome plant, with long and very 
fernlike green foliage, and upstanding long spikes of yellow blossoms 
attaining 10 inches in height ; a hardy Chinese species, but rare and 
choice, asking for a rich, well-drained, stony soil in the sunny and 
sheltered rockwork. 
C. conorrhiza sends up many stems from 3 to 7 inches high, carry- 
ing purple flowers. (Armenia and Trans-caucasus.) 
C. curviflora is a gloriously lovely species with loose showers of 
purest azure blossom, in all the scrubby places of the ranges up the 
Northern March of Tibet. I failed to introduce it, alas! 
C. glauca, blue grey foliage and pink blooms from March to July. 
(America.) 
C. Gortshakowii, woody and green-leaved (not glaucous), with big 
yellow blossoms ; rather like C. nobilis, but the 18-inch stems are leafy 
all the way up. (From the woods of Alatau.) 
C. Griffithit, a species from Afghanistan, recalling C. persicum 
but with flowers of half the size, and a much larger terminal lobe 
to the leaf. 
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