COKYDALIS. 



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and Suppl. t. 2877). Leaf- segments narrow ; flowers scarcely 2 lines, 

 white, or rarely red, sepals very small, sometimes quite minute. Very 

 common in hot countries ; rare, but occasionally met with in Britain. 



II. CORYDAL. CORYDALIS. 



One of the outer petals has a pouch or spur at the base as in 

 Fumitory, but the fruit is a narrow pod, opening in two valves and 

 containing several seeds, bearing near their hilum a little crest-like ap- 

 pendage. 



The species are rather numerous, spread over Europe, Hussian and 

 central Asia, and northern America. The two British ones belong to 

 the section Capnoides, in which the stems are branched and leafy, with- 

 out tubers to the root. The bulbous C. (C. solida, Eng. Bot. t. 1471), 

 from continental Europe, often met with in our flower-gardens, has 

 occasionally remained from cultivation in groves and shady places in 

 some parts of England. It is a small plant, with a tuberous rootstock, 

 sinmle stems, and rather large purplish flowers, belonging to the section 

 JBulbocapnos. 



Stems short, erect, much branched. Flowers yellow 

 Stem long, slender, climbing. Flowers whitish . . 



1. Yellow C. 



2. Climbing C. 



1. Yellow Corydal. Corydalis lutea, DC. (Fig. 45.) 

 {Fumaria, Eng. Bot. t. 588.) 



An erect or spreading plant 6 or 8 

 inches high, either annual or forming a 

 tufted stock of several years' duration. 

 Leaves delicate and pale green, much di- 

 vided, the segments ovate or wedge- 

 shaped, and cut into two or three lobes. 

 Flowers in short racemes, pale yellow, 

 about 6 lines long, with a short broad 

 spur. Pod 3 or 4 lines long. 



In stony places, in southern Europe, 

 but having been long cultivated in flower 

 gardens, it has become naturalized on 

 old walls and rubbish much further to the north, on the continent of 

 Europe, as well as in some parts of England. FL summer. 



Fig. 45. 



2. Climbing Corydal. Corydalis claviculata, DC. (Fig. 46.) 

 {Fumaria, Eng. Bot. t. 103.) 

 An annual with slender intricate stems, 1 to 2 feet long, climbing by 



