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longis) petalo superiore angustius alato apiculato ; fructibus obsolete 
mueronulatis. 
Of F. spectabilis, Bischoff, Del. Sem. Hort. Bot. Heidelberg, p. 4 (1849), no 
authentie specimen has been seen, but plants raised from seed received from 
Jordan under this name seem identieal with the narrow-leaved Pyrenean 
form described by Debeaux and other French authors. 
Although Bischoff says of his F. spectabilis “ patria ignota," Jordan 
(Pugillus, p. 6) states that it is indigenous in Istria and South Italy—an 
assertion copied by later writers. The examples seen from these countries, 
however, appear distinct from the French F. spectabilis and identical with the 
allied forms inhabiting Greece and Syria. These are separated as a species 
under the name of F. Gaillardotii, Boissier, 
y. algerica, var. nov. 
F. agraria var. algerica, Haussk. l.c. 555 (1873). 
Jvsice. Bourgeau, Pl. d'Algérie, 1856, Maison Carrée, Alger, Cosson, 1854, 
ut F. agraria! | Reverchon, PI. d'Algérie, Kabylie, 1896, No. 3, ut F. muralis! 
[The sheet of this in Herb. Zurich is a mixture of the true plant with 
F. flabellata, Gasp.] | Société Dauphinoise, 1879, No. 286 bis, ut F. agraria! 
Foliorum segmenta quam typi paulo angustiora. Racemi primo densi 
tandem elongati, multifori (ssepius plus 20-, nonn unquam 40-flori)  Bracteze 
pedicellis longiuseulis (5-6 mm. longis) breviores. Sepala 3-4 mm. longa. 
Corolla speciosa, 13-15 mm. longa, petalo inferiore marginibus quam in typo 
latioribus usque ad 3 mm. lato. Fructis obtusiusculi potius quam obtusissimi 
mucronulati. 
Tt is not easy to understand why Haussknecht placed this showy African 
plant under F. agraria. Not only by its pink, dark-tipped flowers, but 
through its toothed sepals and its densely tubercular-rugose fruits it is closely 
related to the plant of Badarro. 
OF the specific type two forms, perhaps varietally distinct, seem to be 
widely distributed in the Riviera: one a dwarf, compact plant, with relatively 
small flowers and fraits, the former very deeply coloured; the other a 
stronger, laxer form, with larger but lighter-coloured flowers in laxer 
racemes, and larger fruits. 
When growing, the rich pink, almost black-tipped flowers of F. major are 
very handsome. 
Hybrid individuals between this species and F. capreolata, apparently 
quite barren, have been collected and distributed from the South of France 
under the name of F. Burnati, Verguin in Rouy, Rev. Bot. Syst. ii, 122 
(1904). 
The range of F. major extends from Western Liguria across the South 
of France into Catalonia; the var. spectabilis grows in Narbonne and the 
Eastern Pyrenees, also in South Russia (Astrakan, Becker, 1876!) ; the 
yar. algerica in Algeria, 
