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PBAGTICAL GUIDE TO GARDEN PLANTS corydalis 



leaves twice pinnately cut into blunt 

 oblong lobes, light green above, blue-green 

 beneath. The scarlet flowers shaded with 

 orange, and having violet sepals, are pro- 

 duced freely from June to September, and 

 ih conjunction with the feathery character 

 of the foliage, produce a very ornamental 

 effect in the rockery or flower border. 



Culture dc. as above. Increased by 

 seeds sown as soon as ripe. 



C. Gortschakowi. — A glaucous green 

 perennial 1-1^ ft. high, native of Turke- 

 stan. The leaves are twice pinnately 

 divided or out, the lower ones being 5-6 

 in. long. The golden-yeUow flowers 

 appear in summer, and are borne in 

 dose racemes. 



Culture dc. as above. 



C. kolpakowskiana. — A tuberous- 

 rooted perennial from Turkestan, 6 in. 

 high, with smooth deeply divided leaves, 

 and long-spurred pink or ptirple flowers 

 borne in summer in loose racemes. 



Culture So. as above. 



C. ledebouriana. — A pretty herbaceous 

 perennial about 1 ft. high, native of the 

 Altai mountains. It has tuberous root- 

 stocks and leaves twice ternately cut 

 into obovate glaucous segments. The 

 purple flowers appear in summer, and 

 have rather a thick pale purple spur. 



Culture dc. as above. 



C. lutea {Fumaria lutea). — A well- 

 known European perennial, about 1 ft. 

 high, now naturalised on old walls in many 

 parts of Great Britain. The pale green 

 biternate leaves are cut into obovate wedge- 

 shaped trifid segments, forming graceful 

 masses. The yellow spurred flowersappear 

 in early summer in great abundance, and 

 continue to be produced well into Sep- 

 tember. Nestling among the foliage, 

 which retains its freshness almost the 

 whole year, they look very beautiful, and 

 make the plant useful for the decoration 

 of rockeries, ruins, old walls &c. In such 

 places the seeds often sow themselves, and 

 may be left to follow nature's course. 



Closely related to this species is 0. 

 ochroleuca, which has a similar appear- 

 ance, and is distinguished chiefly by its 

 whitish-yeUow flowers, which continue to 

 appear from spring until the end of 

 autumn. 



Culture dc. as above. Increased by 

 seeds or division. 



C. Marschalliana. — A perennial 9 in. 



high, native of Tauria. Leaves biternate 

 with oval entire or bifld lobes, and sulphur- 

 yellow flowers produced in April and May. 



Culture dc. as above. 



C. nobilis. — A lovely Siberian peren- 

 nial 9 in. or so high. Leaves twice pinnate, 

 with wedge-shaped segments cut at the 

 apex. Flowers in May, pale yellow, tipped 

 with green, and having a long blunt spur 

 incurved at the point. 



Culture dc. as above. Best increased 

 in early spring by dividing the rootstocks. 



C. pallida. — A juicy herb 1-1^ ft. 

 high, native of China and Japan. The 

 pale green leaves are thrice pinnately cut 

 or divided, and are blue-green on the 

 under surface. The bright yellow flowers 

 tipped with brown appear in summer and 

 are borne in racemes at the ends of the 

 shoots. 



Culture dc. as above. 



C. Sevyerowii. — A pretty species 12-18 

 in. high, native of Turkestan, with very 

 finely divided glaucous green leaves, and 

 deep yellow flowers in April and May. 

 Spur short, saccate, and bent downwards. 



Culture dc. as above. 



C. solida (C bulhosa). — A tuberous 

 perennial, 6 in. high, native of Europe, and 

 naturahsed in woods and dampish places 

 in Britain. The very glaucous biternate 

 leaves are cut into oblong or wedge-shaped 

 segments, cut at the top, and the laige 

 purplish flowers about 1 in. long are pro- 

 duced in April and May. 



Culture dc. the same as for C caim 

 above. 



SARCOCAPNOS.— A small genus of 

 dwarf-tufted glaucous perennial herbs, with 

 dissected leaves, the lobes of which sure 

 usually broad and rather thick. Flowers 

 white, yellow, purple, or red, in few -flowered 

 terminal racemes. Sepals 2, scale-like. 

 Petals 4, connivent, one of the two outer 

 ones spurred at the base, the other flat, the 

 inner ones narrow and cohering at the 

 apex, keeled or vsdnged behind. Stamens 6, 

 in 2 cohering bundles opposite the outer 

 petals. 



S. enneaphylla. — A native of S. Europe, 

 2-6 in. high, wdth slender stems and thrice 

 ternately parted and much-lobed leaves on 

 slender stalks. The smaU yellow flowers 

 marked with purple appear in June. 



Culture and Proparjation. — This 

 species thrives in ordinary soil, and is 

 suitable for borders or rockeries. Easily 



