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GENERA FUMARIA AND RUPICAPNOS. 301 
Hee Fumaria que F. micranthe faciem eximie exhibet et pro varietate 
ejus speciei a pluribus auctoribus habetur, per flores generis minimos breviter 
calearatos notabilis est, et hoc charactere cum foliorum laciniis setaceis, 
pedicellis brevissimis, fructibusque conspicue carinatis specifice differre 
videtur. 
F. bracteosa Palestinam (Jaffa (Bornmüller) ! et prope Beersheba 
(Hb. Mus. Brit.)!), Mesopotamiam (Schlüfli, prope Bagdad, in Hb. Kew !), 
insulam Cyprum, Egyptum (prope Alexandriam!) et Algeriam (Faure, prope 
Oran !) habitat. 
This, the smallest flowered of all fumitories, is shown as a distinct species 
rather than a variety of F. micrantha, chiefly on account of its corolla, 
whieh is not only remarkably small but of characteristic form with a 
much diminished spur. This feature is quite constant in the different 
herbarium material examined, some of which shows good and abundant 
flowers, and there seems no sufficient reason for regarding the plant as a 
depauperate form or condition of F. micrantha. 
32. FUMARIA ROSTELLATA, Knaf in Flora, xxix. 290 (1846) ; Hamm. Mon. 
20 (1857) ; Haussk. in Flora, lvi. 510 (1873). F. transsilvanica, Schur 
(=F. macrosepala, Schur, non Boiss.), Enum. Pl. Transsilv. 38 
(1866), ap. Haussk. l. c. 
keon. Hamm. l. c. tab. ii. 
Ewsicc. Celakovsky, &c. Fl. Exsice. Austro-Hungarica, No. 2902 ! 
An authentic example of F. prehensilis, Kit. in Hb. Mus. Brit. is identical 
with this species, but according to Parlatore specimens of F. micrantha were 
sent out by Kitaibel under this name, and the posthumous diagnosis of 
F. prehensilis in Linnza, xxxii. p. 493 (1863), shows evident confusion 
between F. rostellata and F. officinalis. It thus seems clear that Hammar 
and Haussknecht were wise in passing over Kitaibel's name (Ind. Pl. Hort. 
Pesth, p. 10 (1812)), though anterior to both F. micrantha and F. rostellata. 
Another name that appears to have been generally overlooked is F. Sturmii, 
Opiz in Naturalientausch, x. p. 267 (1825). This is referred to F. micrantha in 
the ‘Index Kewensis,’ but both the diagnosis and the habitats cited recall 
F. vostellata, and if this identification can be confirmed from authentic 
exsiecata, the name F. Sturmii must be used in preference to F. rostellata. 
Knaf's description of this species is accurate and fairly complete, and is 
largely followed by Hammar. The fruiting pedicels are slenderer and the 
bracts smaller than in the other plants of this subsection, and the pedicels are 
by no means always short as stated in Hammar's diagnosis. In some agrestal 
forms with highly coloured flowers in very floriferous racemes the wings of 
the upper petal are much developed and extend almost to the apex, which is 
then no longer rostellate though still acute. Such plants are possibly 
varietally distinct. 
