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GENUS VI—CORYDALIS. D.C. 
Sepals 2, generally scale-like or petaloid, deciduous. Corolla 
narrow, appearing 2-lipped. Petals 4, connivent, the superior one 
with a spur or protuberance at the base, the lower one without a 
spur; inner petals narrow, cohering at the tips. Stamens 6, in 
two bundles, opposite the exterior petals. Filament of the upper 
bundle of stamens having often a basal appendage directed back- 
wards and included in the spur of the superior petal. Capsule 
resembling a siliqua, 2-valved, with 2 permanent nervelike pla- 
cente. Seeds more than one, lenticular ; raphe usually furnished 
with a more or less conspicuous crest. 
Brittle-stemmed succulent herbs, with racemes of horizontal or 
drooping flowers. 
The generic name is derived from kxooudadoc (korydalos), a lark,—in allusion to 
the shape of the flowers, the spur of which resembles the spur of a lark. 
Sus-Genus I.—BULBOCAPNOS. Bernh. 
Rootstock tuberous. Stem with 1 or 2 leaves. Flowers in 
aterminal raceme. Style wholly persistent. Cotyledons united 
into one. 
SPECIES L—CORYDALIS SOLIDA. Jock. 
Puare LXVIII.* 
C. digitata, Pers. Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. III. Pap. Tab. VIT. Fie. 4462. 
Fumaria bulbosa, var y, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 983. i 
Fumaria solida, Sm. Eng. Bot. ed. i. No. 1471 ; and Eng. FI. Vol. IIT. p. 253. 
Rootstock a solid rounded tuber. Stem with 1 scale (or 2) 
below the leaves. Style bent. 
Not a true native, but more or less perfectly naturalized in a 
few places. At Kendal (the site of an old garden) ; Wickham, 
Hampshire; near Birmingham; Duckett Ings, Yorkshire; and 
near Uxbridge, Middlesex. 
[England]. Perennial. Spring. 
Rootstock a solid cormlike tuber, emitting root fibres from the 
base. Stems 1 or 2, unbranched, 6 to 18 inches high, with a scale 
formed by an abortive petiole a little below the first leaf. Leaves 
2 to 4, biternate, with the leaflets obovate, 3-lobed or cut. Raceme 
at first short, with 6 to 12 sub-secund flowers. Bracts digitately 
* The Plate is E. B. 1471, with additional dissections by Mr. J. E. Sowerby. 
