PINK WILD FLOWERS 
undetermined whether to linger or depart, and there 
they bob and nod, and sway and swing in silent 
convention, until finally their spirit bids them and they 
are gone. The airy Corydalis reigns supreme wherever 
it can gain a foothold on the terraced balconies of rocky 
cliffs, in partially moist and open woods. It is found 
from Nova Scotia to the Canadian Rockies and Alaska, 
and south to North Carolina and Minnesota from April 
to September. The smooth, irregularly branched 
stem is pale green, sometimes slightly stained with red, 
and always covered with a whitish bloom. It grows 
from one to two feet in height, from a fibrous annual 
root. The comparatively small, compound leaf is 
pale green in colour, smooth and rather delicate in 
texture, with the under surface showing a whitish bloom. 
It is divided into several, often three or five, deeply cleft 
leaflets with their margins unevenly lobed and scal- 
loped. The lower leaves have short, smooth ‘and 
slender stems, and the upper ones are set alternately 
on the stalk. The strangely flattened flower is usually 
less than an inch in length. The irregular, tubular 
corolla has two pairs of erect and converging petals; 
one of the outer pair, which are joined together, is 
formed into a very short and rounded, bag-like spur 
on the upper part of its base, the inner pair are very 
narrow and are keeled on the back. The six stamens 
are arranged in two pairs of three each, opposite: the 
outer petals. The fragile flowers hang upside down, 
and are gathered sparingly toward the end of a slender 
stem. They have a two-parted, scale-like calyx and 
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