DICENTBA 



FUMITORY OBDEB 



COBTDALIS 199 



very similar to D. eximia, but smaller in 

 all its parts. The bright red broadly 

 ovate flowers appear ia May and have 

 short and very obtuse spuis. 



Culture dc. as above. 



D. spectabilis {Chinwman's Breeches). 

 This beautiful and popular plant is a 

 native of Siberia and Japan, and has now 

 become well known in gardens. It is 

 1-2 ft. high, with stalked leaves cut into 

 obovate wedge-shaped segments. The 

 drooping rosy crimson flowers, about 1 in. 

 long, are freely produced in spring and 

 summer on gracefully arching racemes, 

 and are more or less iSke inverted lyres in 

 shape. There is a white-flowered variety 

 which is not so effective. 



This species is slightly forced in green- 

 houses in many thousands every year 

 from rootstocks imported in the early 

 autumn. As an outdoor plant there are 

 few perennials to surpass it in the flower 

 border, margins of shrubberies, or rough 

 rockeries, especially if planted in rich 

 loamy soU. 



Culture dc. as above. 



D. thalictrifolia (D. saandens). — A 

 pretty glaucous species native of the 

 Sikkim Himalayas, with slender creeping 

 branches and leaves very much divided 

 and cut as in the Meadow Eues (Thalia- 

 trum) into oval, oblong, or roundish leaf- 

 lets. The sweet-scented yellow irregular 

 flowers tinged with red in the throat are 

 produced in late stimmer and autumn in 

 clusters from the axils of the leaves, on 

 long slender stalks. 



Culture dc. as above. 



ADLUMIA. — This genus consists 

 only of the species here described : — 



A. cirrhosa (CorydaUs fungosa). — 

 An interesting N. American plant with 

 climbing stems about 15 ft. long. The 

 pale green leaves are thrice pinnate, and 

 resemble the fronds of Maidenhair Ferns, 

 The pale rose or purple coloured flowers, 

 about i in. long, appear in June on 

 axillary peduncles, and consist of 2 scale- 

 like sepals, 4 cohering petals, gibbous 

 at the base, and 6 stamens in 2 cohering 

 bundles opposite the outer lobes of the 

 corolla. 



Culture and Propagation. — This 

 pretty plant is a biennial, but in warm 

 favourable spots will be reproduced 

 annually from self-sown seeds. Its frail 

 climbing stems and Fern-like foliage make 

 it a useful plant for trailing against a wall 



or over shrubs, old branches &g. Seeds 

 may be sown in the ordinary way in light 

 sandy soil as soon as ripe, and the seed- 

 lings after being pricked out must be 

 sheltered in cold frames during the winter 

 months. In spring they may be planted 

 out in mild showery weather. 



CORYDALIS. — A genus containing 

 about 70 species of pretty, smooth, usually 

 glaucous herbs, with tuberous or tufted 

 rootstocks, and diffuse or slender stems 

 sometimes climbing by tendrils. The 

 leaves are much divided, alternate or almost 

 opposite. The flowers are red, white, 

 or yellow in terminal or leaf-opposed 

 racemes. Sepals 2, often scale-hke. 

 Petals 4, the two outer ones larger, one 

 or both gibbous or spurred, often cohering 

 in two usually dissimilar pairs. Stamens 

 6, in 2 cohering bundles opposite the outer 

 petals. 



Culture and Propagation. — Of the 

 many species of Fumitory comparatively 

 few are worth growing in gardens, those 

 described below being the best. They grow 

 easily in ordinary garden soU, and some 

 wiU thrive in shady spots in damp soU. 

 They make charming groups in the 

 rockery or the front of the flower border 

 and are effective either in foliage or 

 flower. The plants may be increased 

 by dividing the roots after flowering or 

 by offsets from the bulbous-rooted sorts. 

 The annual species of course must be 

 raised from seeds sown out of doors in 

 early autumn or in spring each year. 



C. bracteata. — A Siberian perennial 

 about 9 in. high, with biternate leaves 

 cut into linear-lobed segments. The 

 sulphur-yeUow flowers appear in May 

 and June. 



Culture do. as above. Increased by 

 division in spring. 



C. cava [C. tuber oaa). — A European 

 perennial, 6 in. high, with biternate 

 leaves cut into wedge-shaped segments. 

 The white flowers are produced from 

 February to May in loose terminal 

 racemes. 



Culture do. as above. — Increased by 

 division of the tuberous rootstocks m 

 early autumn so that the plants will be 

 established for flowering at the proper 

 period in spring. Seeds are not produced 

 very freely, and besides, they often do not 

 sprout for a year or so after being sown. 



C. glauca. — A graceful Canadian 

 annual or biennial 9-12 in. high, with 



