114 The Flora of Wiltshire. 



ORDER. FUMARIACEiE (DE CAKD.) 



CoRYDALIS, (DE CAND.) 



Linn. CI. xvii. Ord. i. 

 Name. Korydalis, the ancient Greek name for Fumitory. From 

 koruclalos, a lark, on account of the spurred flower resembling the 

 foot of that bird. 



1. f< C. lutea," (Lindl.) yellow Oorydalis. Fumaria Engl. Bot. t. 

 588. Reich. Icones, t. 6, 4459. 



Locality. Old walls, rare. P. May, August. Area. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 

 South Division. 



1. South-east District, " Old walls in the neighbourhood of Salis- 

 bury," Mr. James Eussey. 



2. South Middle District, Devizes. 



3. South-west District, "Clay Hill Farm," Miss Griffith. " On a 

 wall at Road Hill," Rev. Edward Peacock, in litt. April 1859. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District, Walls at Corsham. " Chippenham," Dr. 

 R. C. Alexander Prior, and Mr. C. E. Broome. " Langley Burrell," 

 Mr. C. E. Broome. 



5. North-east District, Old walls at Swindon and Purton. 

 Naturalized on old garden walls in many parts of the county, 



where it has escaped from cultivation. It is a troublesome weed 

 in the flower garden, springing rapidly from seed, which it per- 

 fects in great abundance. 



" C. solida,^ (Hook) solid, bulbous rooted Corydalis. Engl. Bot. 

 t. 1471. Reich. Icones, t. 7,f. 4462. Has been observed at Great 

 Bedwyn by Mr. William Bartlett, but I fear under circumstances 

 that will scarcely warrant its being considered indigenous or even 

 naturalized. Miss L. Meredith also reports " C. solida," (Hook) as 

 occurring in Stocky Lane, Bromham, 1 but at the same time intima-i 



1 It is not improbable that this plant escaped from the garden at Nonsuch . 

 House, formerly the residence of the late James Norris, Esq., who devoted his | 

 leisure time in studying the " Natural History of his native county, (Wilts.) f 

 He was particularly attached to the study of botany, and contributed much I 

 valuable information to the 3rd edition of Dr. Withering's "Arrangement of| 

 British plants," published in 1796. (" This edition of Withering," says the late i 

 Sir James Smith, " is the last which its worthy author completed." It is the! 

 only one quoted by Sir James himself in the pages of his English Flora. His ! 



