CORYDALIS. 
C. persica, like a much more ferny-fronded C. rutaefolium, of ample 
leafage, the lobe at the end being bigger than the side ones. The 
clear pink blossoms are often more than an inch in length. 
C. rosea is a lax spreading floppet of dank rocky places, with long 
spires of pale pink. 
C. rutaefolia, from beside the melting snows of Asia Minor (as 
C. cava from those of our European Alps) is similar in habit—ferny 
fat-lobed leaves, one or two, springing from a bulb, which here is 
solid ; and the spike rises to some 6 inches, bearing large flowers of a 
pleasant pink. There is also, in the screes of Lassiti in Crete, a minor 
form, with only one or two blossoms, and those of deeper and more 
brilliant colour. This is C. alpina, Koch. 
C. scaberula is a veryhandsoms thriving Corydal of high stony places 
in the Da-Tu g Alps, Kansu-Tibet, forming dense clumys of foliage, 
with many dense 6-inch spikes of dark-tipped claret-coloured bloom. 
C. Semenowit, an oriental of some 8 inches in graceful sprays like 
a Thalictrum’s, with little loose heads of bright yellow bloom on the 
laterals. 
C. Sewerzowit grows a foot or more in height, and has fleshy, 
glaucous leaves with a scant and long-stemmed furnishing of yellow 
flowers tipped with brown. 
C. solida, a beautiful species, forming wide massive tufts of ferny 
foliage from solid bulbs, and sending clear of them, to the height of 
some 16 inches or rather less, a profusion of flower-heads of purple from 
March to May : it prefers rather deep shade. 
C. tenella is a little frailer, laxer, Caucasian form of C. solida. 
C. thalictrifolia, new from China, is not quite so sound in temper as 
C. cheilanthifolia, though hardly less be-praised. In sheltered warm 
corners, kept sheltered and dry in winter, it forms a woody stock, 
which in summer becomes a mound of drooping leafage less like that of 
Thalictrum than that of the Great Celandine, and rather heavy in 
effect for the comparatively small spires of golden yellow blossom 
that continue to surmount it all the summer through. 
C. tomentosa has specially glaucous, downy leaves and erect, foot- 
high spikes of green-tipped golden helmets in May and June. 
C. verticillaris is a native of North Persia conspicuous in the special 
fineness of its foliage. 
C. Wilsonii, a Chinese novelty, quite hardy, that should have the 
advantage of a sheltered sunny place in light and well-drained soil. 
It produces smooth grey-green leaves of extreme fineness and ferny 
delicacy, very feathery; and its stems of 8 inches or so carry blossoms 
of deep canary yellow touched with green, in April. 
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