FUMARIACE^ 69 



FUMARIACE^ 

 Flowers irregular. Sepals 2, deciduous. Petals 4, one or two 

 of them gibbous or spurred. Stamens 6, in two bundles of 3 each. 

 Ovary i-celled. A small family, chiefly of western distribution. 



CORYDALIS DC. 



Flowers usually larger than in Fumaria, white, yellow, or purple ; 

 one petal only spurred. Fruit a 2-valved capsule, or narrow pod, 

 many-seeded. 



The species are spread over Europe, Temperate Asia, and North 

 America, and many are handsome plants. 



Corydalis cava Miller. 



Root tuberous, hollow. Stem 8-18 inches high, with i or 2 

 deeply cut leaves, with no scale beneath as in C. fabacea. Flowers 

 purple, lilac, white, or mottled, with thick curved spur. 



Orchards, hedges, and copses, in colonies in the plains and hills, 

 but local in Switzerland. April, May. 



Distribution. — Central and Southern Europe, from Portugal to 

 the Caucasus, and Sweden. 



Corydalis fabacea Pers. (C. intermedia Ehrh.). 



Tuber solid, bulb-shaped. Stem shorter than the last, with 1-2 

 leaves, having a scale below. Leaflets less cut up. Flowers purple, 

 in a shorter terminal spike, nearly sessile, and with straight spur. 



Woods and bushy places in the Alps and sub-Alps. April, May. 



Distribution. — Ardennes, Vosges, Jura, Switzerland, Savoy, 

 Dauphiny, Corsica, Central Europe from Sweden to Southern 

 Russia. 



Corydalis solida Swartz (C. bulbosa DC). 



Tuber solid, like a small bulb. Plant about the height of the first 

 species, with 2-4 leaves, with 1-3 scales. Leaves twice temate, with 

 small incised lobes. Flowers purple, on longer stalks, spur straight. 

 Flowers in a dense panicle which gets elongated after flowering. 

 Peduncle as long as the capsule. 



Hedges, hilly woods, and meadows, very local in Switzerland. 

 March to May. 



Distribution. — Western Switzerland, Jura, Vosges, Pyrenees, 

 Central and Southern Europe, Northern and Western Asia. Not 

 uncommon in the mountains of the Var, and extending almost 

 throughout France. 



Corydalis claviculata DC. 



This pretty climbing plant, with very pale yellow or nearly 

 white flowers, is not found in Switzerland, though in the Department 



