164 MR. C. €. BABINGTON ON THE 
F. media a. typiea, Hamm. 28. t. 3. 
F. muralis, Bor. Fl. Cent. Fr. ed. 2, not Sond. 
Sep. soon falling, attached above their base, deeply toothed at 
the base, often toothed throughout. Cor. rather large, pale, often 
purplish, with a dark purple tip; pet. gradually narrowed to an 
acute point at the tip ; lower petal often free and either patent or 
declining. Fruit with a narrow base, which is usually, perhaps 
always, much narrower than the enlarged tip of the pedicel. The 
vertical outline is rather quadrangular with the sides rounded and 
top truncate; apical pits small and deep.  Fruit-stalks patent: 
straight, or rarely slightly deflexed. | 
This is probably the F. capreolata of Smith, under which name 
Mr. A. Jordan received it from Sir W. J. Hooker (Archiv, 305). 
Tt is certainly the F. capreolata of Curtis’s beautiful plate in the 
‘Flora Londinensis. Sowerby’s plate in * English Botany’ is pro- 
bably taken from a specimen of F. Borei, but may contain some 
traces of F. muralis. A minute examination shows that the draw- 
ing is not trustworthy. 
The specimen from Winandermere, with long bracts, referred to 
F. capreolata in my paper published in the first volume of the Edin- 
burgh Botanic Society's Transactions, is a state of F. Borei. 
Lloyd (Fl. Ouest) describes the fruit of his F. Borei as “un 
peu plus long que large.” It seems therefore probable that he may 
include the F. pallidiflora under that name. The fruit of my plant 
seems to be always rather broader than long, and is remarkable 
for the squareness of its vertical outline and the stalk-like appear- 
ance of its base : approaching in form to that of F. officinalis ; but 
it is not so short relatively to its breadth, nor retuse. Its racemes 
are few-flowered and short, thus differing greatly from the long 
and many-flowered ones of F. officinalis. 
F Borei is perhaps too nearly allied to F. pallidiflora ; at least 
such seems to be the case when dried specimens are examined. 
Its leaflets appear to be narrower relatively to their breadth. The 
corolla is always much tinged with pink, which is rarely the case 
with those of its ally. Its sepals are usually more toothed, and 
are generally larger. Its fruit is different in shape; the base is 
broader, but still not so broad as the tip of the pedicel, although 
that part is less enlarged than in F. pallidi 
I have seen F. Borei from Tenby, Pembrokeshire ; Shrewsbury; 
Windermere, Lancashire; Glenmore near. Lisburn, co. Antrim 
(Dr. J. H. Davies). 
