166 МВ. С. ©. BABINGTON ON FUMARIA CAPREOLATA. 
4. F. MURALIS (Sond.) : sepalis ovatis acutis basi dentatis tubi corolle 
latitudinem subsequantibus eodemque $ brevioribus, fructibus ob- 
ovato-compressis apice rotundatis parvis sublevibus, basi fructus 
lata obconica pedicelli apice paulo angustiore, bracteis pedicellos 
floriferos sequantibus fructiferis erecto-patentibus brevioribus, racemis 
evolutis laxis brevibus paucifloris. 
F. muralis, Sond.! in Koch, Syn. ed. 2. 1017; Fl. Hamb. 385. Jord. 
Cat. Dij. 1848, 19. Lowe! Fl. Madeira, 13. Fries, Summa, 146; 
Fl. Dan. t. 2473. 
F. Petteri, Koch, Syn. ed. 2. 435 (not Reichenb.). 
F. capreolata var. media, Fries, Mant. iii. 88. 
F. capreolata (type), Leight.! Fl. Shrop. 344. 
F. media y. muralis, Hamm. 29. t. 4. 
Plant usual more lax than its allies. Corolla smaller than 
that of F. confusa, tipped “dark atro-purpureous or black." 
Petals abruptly apiculate. The fleshy base is not nearly so broad 
as the fruit, and narrows very conspicuously from above down- 
wards to the pedicel, the tip of which slightly exceeds it in 
width. The fruit, together with its base, has thus, when fresh, 
an obovate or nearly pyriform outline; it is equally rounded at 
the top as elsewhere, and neither pointed nor retuse, as is well 
remarked by Mr. Lowe; the apical pits are usually so very slightly 
impressed as almost to escape notice. The bracts are often not 
more than half as long as the fruit-stalks. 
Fries seems to include under his F. muralis the plant of Sonder 
and also the F. confusa of Jordan; for he states (Mant. iii. 88) 
that it is the F. capreolata of Eng. Bot. (t. 943), and says of it, 
* Gallie occidentali, Britannis prsecipue boreali et Norwegie 
extimis oris propria videtur." The plant of Western France is 
certainly the F. confusa. What the Norwegian plant may be is 
unknown to me, for I have not seen a specimen; but as it is 
found * Norwegie maxime occidentalis," it may well be the true 
plant. 
This is probably the type of the F. capreolata y. Anglica (Arn.), 
which is considered as the true F. capreolata by Leighton. A 
considerable series of Leighton's specimens is before me, some of 
which were named (y. Anglica) by Arnott. But, apparently, 
Arnott included the F. confusa, and perhaps F. Borei, in that 
variety. Leighton seems to have inclined towards the opinion 
that his two forms of F. capreolata were distinct species, as is the 
fact. To him therefore is due the credit of first discriminating 
between F. Borei and F. muralis in this country, although he 
refrained from naming the new species, and was unacquainted 
