NATIVE WILD FLOWERS 
Fiy-FLowEer—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 
glauca (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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