CORONILLA CORYDALIS. 



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Coronilla minima (Least C.) A 

 diminutive evergreen, a few inches 

 high, flowers, in summer ; small, 

 rich yellow, freely produced, 6 to 

 12 in each head. Leaves, pinnate ; 

 leaflets 7 to 13, ovate-roundish, ob- 

 tuse or retuse ; stipules opposite the 

 leaves, 2-toothed at the apex. France 

 and Southern Europe. The rock- 

 garden and among the smallest sub- 

 jects in the mixed border ; in sandy 

 soil. Division or seed. 



Coronilla montana (Mountain C.) 

 An erect, free -flowering, slightly 

 glaucous perennial, 15 to 18 in. high. 

 flowers, in summer; yellow, 15 to 

 20 in each umbel. Leaves, pinnate; 

 leaflets 7 to 9, ovate, mucronate. 

 Brightly-coloured forms frequently 

 occur. Mountains of Southern Eu- 

 rope. Mixed border, rougher 



parts of the rock-garden, margins 

 of shrubberies, and naturalization, in 

 ordinary garden soil. Division or 



Coronilla varia (Rosy C.) A very 

 handsome, free, and graceful trailing 

 herb, bearing a profusion of rose- 

 coloured flowers. The shoots some- 

 times attain a length of 4 or 5 ft. 

 flowers, in summer ; from 1 6 to 20 in 

 each umbel, on stalks about as long as 

 the leaves. Leaves, pinnate ; leaflets 

 9 to 13, small, oblong, mucronate. 

 The flowers vary in colour from deep 

 rose to nearly white. Europe and 



Tauria, in fields and meadows. 



Behind some bare rock, so that it 

 may hang down over the face of it ; 

 in borders, on chalky banks, running 

 amongst trailing shrubs, or for natu- 

 ralization in semi- wild places, in ordi- 

 nary soil. Seed. 



Cortusa Matthioli (Alpine Sanicle). 

 Resembling Primula cortusoides, 

 with large leaves like those of the 

 tender Primula mollis. Flowers, in 

 early summer ; deep purplish-crimson, 

 on stems from 9 to 15 in. high, ar- 



ranged in a loose umbel; corolla 

 funnel-shaped. Leaves, roundish-heart- 

 shaped, lobed, sharply toothed. Alps 

 of Piedmont and Germany. Shel- 

 tered nooks in the rock-garden, in 

 moist loam or peat, or on sheltered 

 borders. Division and seed. 



Corydalis lutea (Yellow C.)fuma- 

 ria lutea. A graceful perennial, with 

 fern-like but somewhat glaucous 

 leaves, forming close tufts abundantly 

 dotted with yellow flowers, 12 to 18 in. 

 high. Flowers, most of the summer ; 

 yellow, in racemes ; bracts linear awl- 

 shaped, one-third the length of the pe- 

 dicel. Leaves, 3-ternate ; leaflets, wedge- 

 shaped with roundish lobes. A native 

 of Southern Europe, and naturalized 

 on old walls in various countries. 

 Borders, old ruins, walls, stony 



B'aces or bare banks, in any soil, 

 ivision. 



Corydalis Marschalliana (MarschaWs 

 C.) A dwarf tuberous-rooted peren- 

 nial, 8 to 10 in. high, flowers, in 

 April or May; sulphur-coloured, in 

 short racemes ; spur straight or 

 scarcely incurved, blunt. Leaves, 2, 

 situated above the middle of the stem, 

 2-ternate ; lobes oval, entire, or bifid. 

 Tauria and the mountains in the 



Ukraine, under trees. Borders, 



and the rougher parts of the rock- 

 garden, in sandy loam. Division. 



Corydalis nobilis (Noble C.) The 

 stoutest and handsomest kind in cul- 

 tivation, 10 to 12 in. high, flowers, in 

 spring and early summer; rich yellow 

 when opened ; the unopened ones at 

 the apex forming a light green rosette , 

 borne in massive heads on stout leafy 

 stems, double the size of those of 

 0. solida, all turned the same way ; 

 spur long, blunt and incurved at the 

 point. Leaves, bipinnate; segments 

 wedge-shaped, cut at the top; bracts 



acute, entire or cut. Siberia. 



Borders, or the lower flanks of rock- 

 work, in deep sandy loam. Division. 



