CORYDALIS. 
C. juncea attains to 2 feet, with erect spikes of bright golden 
blooms and hardly any leaves at all, those few being more like bracts. 
(Nepal and Sikkim, 12,000 to 14,000 feet.) 
C. Kolpakowskyana, from the Levant; about 8 inches high with 
yellow flowers. 
C. latiflora has a spindle-shaped root, and is only 3 or 4 inches 
tall, with flowers three-quarters of an inch long and very wide, bright 
pale-blue, with darker tips, showing up well above the leaves, which 
are many and glaucous-grey. 
C. Ledebouriana.— Quite like C. rutaefolia, but with a laxer shower 
of pink blooms, and fruiting capsules sticking out horizontal instead 
of turning down. 
C. longiflora justifies itself by having blossoms of 14 in. in length, 
and purple in colour. (Altai and Siberia.) 
C. lutea, an ever-blooming, golden-flowered, ferny weed in every 
rock-garden, with a cream-white form which is equally pretty, and 
seeds true. 
C. Marshalliana, from the shady places of Northern Persia, has 
ampler foliage than C. cava, and yellow blossoms. 
C. melanochlora is another of my failures. Its deliciously haw- 
thorn-scented heads of black-eyed white-and-azure helmets nestle 
close upon the rich blue-grey foliage in all the bare high-alpine 
shingles of the Kansu-Tibetan March at 15,000 feet. 
C. Moorcroftiana, a robust and spreading plant, rather like C. 
conorrhiza but much larger, spreading and branching, and the foliage - 
hoar-frosted with roughness. (Tibet and Afghanistan.) 
C. nobilis, one of the finest ; a Siberian plant and rather leafy, in 
foliage suggesting Callianthemum coriandrifolium, akin to C. lutea, but 
magnificently larger in the leaf, and attaining 18 inches, with a per- 
petual profusion of fragrant yellow flowers with a dark tip. 
C. ochroleuca blooms through the season, with pale blossoms on 
foot-high stems. 
C. ophiocarpa, from moist places in Sikkim at about 9000 feet, 
throws up spikes of yellow on stems of 2 or 3 feet, and is distinct in 
the serpentine pods that follow its spires of blossom, above the very 
delicate and dainty fernlike foliage of opalescent blue tone and fleshy 
consistency. 
C. parnassica is a small C. cava irom Parnassus, lower, neater, 
glaucous-grey, with the leaves on the stem oblong and not rounded. 
Purple flowers. 
C. pauciflora is a common plant all across Asia, glaucous-leaved, 
with dense and few-flowered heads of violet. 
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