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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 



Correa continued. 



C. cardlnalia (cardinal).* Jl. bright scarlet, tipped with green, 

 pendent, from lin. to IJin. in length. March, h. 3ft. A slen- 

 der-growing but elegant shrub; it requires close pruning. 

 SYN. C. speeiosa. See Fig. 528. There are several forms of this 

 species. 



C. Harris!! (Harris's).* Jl. bright scarlet. Of medium-growth, 

 with light green apiculated leaves, and fine branching habit. 

 A garden hybrid, of which C. cardinal* is one of the parents. 

 (P. M. B. vii. 79.) 



C. magnifica (magnificent). /. white, large. A rather strong- 

 growing and free-flowering form. 



C. pulchella (beautiful).* /. solitary, pendulous ; corolla tubular, 

 bright salmon-colour, with the throat ciliated. April. I. ovate, 

 cordate, obtuse, waved, beset with stellate pubescence; adult 

 ones smooth, h. 6ft. 1824. A hybrid. (B. B. 1224.) 

 C. speclosa (showy). A synonym of C. cardinalis. 

 C. ventrieosa (inflated), fl. bright crimson, tipped with green. 



A slender-growing twiggy sort, very pretty and distinct. 

 C. Vlrens (green), JL pendulous ; corolla greenish, lin. or liin. 

 long. November. I. ovate-oblong, somewhat cordate, slightly 

 toothed, beset with glandular tomentum. h. 3ft. to 8ft. New 

 South Wales, Ac., 1800. (B. R. 3.) 



In addition to the above, there are many other seedlings and 

 hybrids, among which are: bicolor, Bidunlli, delicata, hybrida, 

 ochroleuca and rosea-superba. 



CORRUGATE. Wrinkled ; irregularly crumpled np. 

 CORSICAN PINE. See Finns Laricio. 

 CORTEX. The bark, or cortical layer. 

 CORTICAL. Of, or belonging to, the bark. 

 CORTUSA (named after Jacobo Antonio Cortuso, once 

 Director of the Botanic Garden at Padua; died 1593). 

 Bear's-ear Sanicle. ORD. Primulaceee. The only species of 

 the genus is a very pretty alpine perennial, very like 

 Primula cortusoides. It thrives in a compost of moist 

 loam, peat, and sand, with a semi-shaded position, if pro- 

 tected from the wind. Propagated by seed, which must 

 be sown as soon as ripe, in a cold frame ; also by care- 

 fully dividing the roots. Although, for garden purposes, 

 the two plants are here treated as species, C. pubena is 

 a mere form of C. Matthioli. 



C. Matthioli (Matthioli's). JL purple, umbellate, drooping; 



corolla funnel-shaped or campanulate, with a short tube and 



sub-erect limb ; scape about 6m. high. Early summer. I. pe- 



tiolate, rotundate, irregularly toothed or lobed. Swiss Alps, 1596. 



(B. M. 987.) 

 C. M. grandlflora (large-flowered), fl. much larger than in 



the type, very copious, upon stout peduncles 18in. to 24in. high. 



1. also much larger. Siberia, 1880. This is a very vigorous 



variety. 

 C. pubens (downy), fl. magenta-purple, drooping, on slender 



peduncles 4in. to 6in. high. May to June. I. stalked, covered 



with short silky down. Transylvania, 1878. A smaller plant than 



C. Matthioli. 



CORYANTHES (from korys, a helmet, and antlios, 

 a flower ; in reference to the shape of the lip). Helmet- 

 flower. OBD. Orchideas. Very extraordinary and orna- 

 mental stove epiphytal Orchids. The most remarkable 

 species is C. macraniha, and some account of it may be 

 gleaned from the following description, which appeared 

 in the " Botanical Register," over forty years ago : " The 

 plant has the habit of a Stanhopea, and pushes forth from 

 the base of its pseudo-bulbs a pendulous scape, on which 

 two or three flowers are developed ; each flower is placed 

 at the end of a long, stiff, cylindrical-furrowed ovary, 

 and, when expanded, measures something more than Gin. 

 from the tip of one sepal to that of the opposite one. 

 The sepals and petals are nearly of the name colour, being 

 of an ochrey-yellow, spotted irregularly with dull purple. 

 The lip is as fleshy and solid in texture as the sepals and 

 petals are delicate ; it is seated on a dark purple stalk, 

 nearly lin. long. This stalk terminates in a hemispherical 

 greenish-purple cup or cap, and the latter, contracting 

 at its front edge, extends forward into a sort of second 

 stalk of a very vivid blood-colour, the sides of which are 

 thinner than the centre, turned back, and marked with 

 four or five very deep, solid, sharp-edged plaits These 

 edges again expand and form a second cup, less lobed than 

 the first, thinning away very much to the edges, of a 



Coryanth.es continued. 



broad conical figure, with a diameter of at least 2in. at the 

 orifice; this second cup is of an ochrey-yellow, streaked 

 and spotted with pale crimson, and seems intended to 

 catch a watery secretion, which drips into it from two 

 succulent horns, taking their origin in the base of the 

 column, and hanging over the centre of the cup." For 

 culture, see Stanhopea. 



C. macrantha (large-flowered).* fl. lasting but three or four days 



in bloom. May, June, and July. Caraccas. (B. K. 22, 1841.) 



See also description given above. 

 C. maculata (spotted), ft. pale ochraceous-yellow, spotted with 



purple, lasting but three days in beauty. Summer. Demerara, 



1829. (B. M.3102.) 

 C. speeiosa (showy). /. pale yellow, ephemeral in consistency. 



April. Brazil, 182&. SYN. Gongora spec&ta. (B. M.2755.) 



FIG. 529. FLOWERS OP CORYDALIS BRACTEATA. 



CORYDALIS (the old Greek name for the Fumitory ; 

 from korydalos, a lark; the spur of the flower resembles 

 the spur of a lark). ORD. Fumariacece. A genus of very 

 pretty, smooth, usually glaucous herbs. Racemes terminal 

 or opposite the leaves, with a bract under each pedicel ; 

 petals four, the two outer larger, one or both gibbous or 

 spurred, often coherent, in two usually very dissimilar 

 pairs. Leaves much divided, alternate, sub-opposite at the 

 tips. Roots fusiform, tuberous, or fibrous. There are 

 about seventy species. They are well adapted for borders 

 and rockwork; and some of them will thrive well under 

 trees, if the ground be not too dry. The method of culture 

 is exceedingly simple. They are increased by dividing the 

 plants directly after flowering, or by seed ; the bulbous- 



