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290 MR. H. W. PUGSLEY : A REVISION OF THE 
This fumitory has been the subject of considerable eonfusion. It was first 
included in 1849 in the original acconnt of F. Reuteri, a species founded by 
Boissier on two Spanish plants, one from Castile and the other from the 
Sierra Nevada in Andalusia. Five years later a second species, also 
founded on a Castilian plant, was established by Lange as F. apiculata. 
In Hammar’s Monograph these two species are retained, the description of 
F. Reuteri being taken from Boissier’s original diagnosis and a specimen, 
probably Andalusian, sent by him to Fries, while F. apiculata is described 
and figured from living, cultivated plants presumably grown from seed 
obtained from Lange. Haussknecht, who examined the original material of 
these plants in Herb. Boissier, detected that the two Spanish examples cited 
for F. Reuteri were essentially different, and retained Boissier’s name for the- 
Castilian plant, referring the Andalusian one to the Greek F. Thuretii, 
which it closely resembles. At the same time he made F. apiculata, Lge., 
of which Herb. Boissier also contains an original specimen, a synonym of 
F. muralis, Sond. This arrangement is reflected in Willkomm & Lange’s 
‘Flora Hispanica’ (except that F. apiculata there becomes F. media 8. 
apiculata), but the authors do not appear familiar with the Castilian form 
placed under F. Reuteri or with Boissier’s Andalusian plant. 
It is evident from the types in Herb. Boissier that Haussknecht correctly 
separated the two plants on which F. Reuteri was founded by Boissier. 
But the original specimens also show with nearly equal certainty that the 
Castilian F. Reuteri is conspecifie with F. apiculata, Lge., described from the 
same district, and th t these two plants, while allied to F. muralis, are 
distinet from it and from all other described forms. They agree well with 
Hammar’s diagnosis of F. apiculata, except that the fruiting pedicels are 
markedly suberect, as noted by Lange, instead of * erecto-patentes,” and the 
fruit perhaps less oval than ovate. 
The nomenclature of these plants is involved, for of the two forms 
originally included by Boissier under 7. Reuteri, that inhabiting Andalusia 
is apparently described under this name by Hammar, while Haussknecht 
restricts the name to the Castilian form. It is clear that this latter plant 
was the first to be segregated (as F. apiculata, Lange), and hence it seems 
preferable to apply Boissier’s name to the Andalusian form and to maintain 
F. apiculata, Lange, for that discovered in Castile. Moreover, although 
both plants were originally cited for /. Reuteri by Boissier, it is probable 
from the terms of his diagnosis that it was actually taken from the Andalusian 
one which he himself collected, rather than from the Castilian plant gathered 
by Heuter which he united with it. 
25. Fumaria Perrert, Reichenbach, Icones Fl. Germ. iii. 1 (1838) ; Parlatore, 
Mon. Fum. 85 (1844), ex parte ; Visiani, Fl. Dalmatica, iii. 98 (1852), 
et Suppl. i. 118 (1872) : Hamm. Mon. 32 (1857), ex parte : Schlosser 
& Vukot. Fl. Croatica, 205 (1869). 
