NATIVE WILD FLOWERS 

 FLY-FLOWER Dicentra Cucullaria (DC.), 



the diverging nectaries taking just the angle of the wings 

 of the Deer -fly when spread for flight, and the brown tips 

 of the four petals giving the semblance of the head of the 

 insect. The delicate pale primrose-tinted sac-like spurs of 

 the corolla give a peculiar aspect to this very attractive 

 flower, which forms one of the ornaments of the spring. 

 It appears early in the month of May, or, in warm and 

 genial seasons, as early as the latter weeks in April. Like 

 the Squirrel Corn, the foliage is finely dissected and ample; 

 it blooms, however, a week earlier. 



GOLDEN FUMITORY Corydalis aurea (Willd.). 



This pretty flower is also one of our native Fumitories; 

 it makes a good border bloomer, is biennial in habit, seeds 

 itself and blossoms freely. It is a low-growing, bushy plant, 

 with pale bluish finely dissected foliage and simple racemes 

 of golden yellow flowers; it begins to blossom very late in 

 May and continues all through June and later. There is 

 a finer, larger, more compactly growing plant, with larger 

 flowers and foliage, found in rocky woods and islands in 

 our backwoods' lakes. A very pretty species is Corydalis 

 (jlauca (Pursh). This is tall and branching, with delicate 

 flowers of bright pink, yellow and green, or white. The 

 foliage is very blue in shade, not very abundant; the 

 divisions of the leaf bluish; pods very slender, splitting 

 and shedding bright shining seeds. It is a very pretty 

 plant, and grows readily among grasses and other wayside 

 herbage. * 



* On rocky islands this very elegant species may be found in profusion, growing lux- 

 uriantly in the clefts of the gneiss rocks, and where the soil is black with decomposed 

 vegetable mould ; it will bear to be removed, and grows freely in the garden. 



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