306 . MR. H. W. PUGSLEY : A REVISION OF THE 
After an examination of the exsiccata cited it may be remarked that, 
compared with 7. officinalis, F. cilicica seems chiefly notable for its very long 
and dense racemes, bearing from 30 up to 80 flowers and much exceeding the 
short and thick peduncles. Its bracts, also, are more subulate and more 
finely pointed, while the sepals are relatively small and narrow and, at least 
in some cases, acuminate rather than mucronate. The corolla is rather larger 
than in F. officinalis (8-9 mm. long), with broad, short, obscurely purple 
wings to the upper petal much exceeding the keel and extending to its apex; 
the spur ascending, longer and more curved than in F. officinalis ; and the 
lower petal less spathulate, and subacute with spreading margins scarcely 
reaching the apex. The apical pits of the fruit are roundish and shallow, 
and the persistent apiculus, while apparently invariably present, is sometimes 
very short, giving the fruit a strong resemblance to that of F. officinalis. 
On this ground Buser seems to have reduced this plant to a variety of that 
species. 
It will be seen from the exsiccata cited that F. cilicica has a wide distribu- 
tion in Asiatic Turkey. 
35. Fumaria Boissier, Haussk. in Flora, lvi. 424 (1873); Buser in Fl. 
Orient. Suppl. 27 (1888). 
Eusice, Haussk. Terek Mesopotamiæ borealis, 1867, in Hb. Boissier ! 
This species, described by Haussknecht from plants which he himself 
collected in Northern Mesopotamia, seems from the exsiccata in Herb. 
Boissier—the only material examined—to be separable with difficulty from 
F. cilicica. 
In the Boissier specimen, which shows good foliage and flowers though only 
immature fruit, the leaves, racemes, pedicels, bracts, and sepals appear to be 
essentially those of F. cilicica; and although the outer petals are more 
broadly winged and the apiculus of the young fruit is longer than in the 
Kotschy gathering which forms the type of F. cilicica, yet it is clear from 
the more recent material referred to this species that these features are liable 
to an appreciable range of variation. 
Although Buser retains F. Boissieri as a species while he reduces A. cilicica 
to a variety of F. officinalis, it is apparent that he recognizes the very close 
affinity of the three plants. 
36. FUMARIA microstacuys, Kralik ex Haussk. in Flora, lvi. 552 (1873). 
F. judaica B? microstachys, Buser in Fl. Orient. Suppl. 29 (1888). 
Eesice. Kralik, Alexandrie, Egypt, 1847, in Hb. Boissier! et Hb. Kew! 
Gaillardot, Pl. d'Egypte, No. 437, Alexandrie, 1870, ut F. Vaillant ?! 
Schweinfurth, Basse-Egypte, No. 267, Alexandria, 1890, ut F. Judaica! 
Fumaria, ut videtur, annua, satis robusta, diffusa, tandem ramosissima. 
Folia plus minusve glauca, foliolis in lacinias lineari-oblongas, planas, acutas vel 
obtusas raro mucronatas fissis 3-4-pinnatisecta. Racemi ia«iusculi, pauciffori 
