GENERA FUMARIA AND RUPICAPNOS. 311 
Hb. Kew! Szépligeti, Fl. Hungarica, Budapest, Schwabenberg, 1888, in 
Hb. Mus. Brit., ut F. Schleicheri ! 
Typo simillima, sed petalo superiore alis latioribus carinam conspicue 
superantibus obtusissimo, petalo inferiore marginibus latioribus apice obovato, 
fructibus paululum minoribus vix 2 mm. longis ac latis leviter rugosis. 
F. Schleicheri foliorum laciniis latioribus, racemis longius pedunculatis 
pedicellis longioribus gracilibus breviter bracteatis, floribus saturate roseis, 
sepalis majoribus, petali superioris haud emarginati alis atropurpureis reflexis 
nee patulis a F. Vaillantii et a F. Schrammii differt. 
F. officinalis habitu robustiore, bracteis longioribus, floribus sepalisque 
majoribus, fructibus latioribus retusis truncatisve facile distinguitur. 
This pretty species, which is normally a very distinct plant, characterized 
especially by its deeply coloured flowers and its apiculate fruits borne on long, 
slender, and shortly bracteated pedicels, has been the subject of much 
confusion since it was first distinguished by Soyer- Willemet. Hammar, who 
overlooked Soyer-Willemet/s description, seems to have been but slightly 
acquainted with it; and he failed to recognize the identity of Peterman’s 
shade-grown F. aerocarpa from Leipzig, which he described as F. tenuiflora, 
Fries, with the Swiss plants usually distributed by Lagger as F. Laggert, 
Jordan, and reduced in the Monograph to a variety of F. Vaillantii. 
It was not till Haussknecht dealt with these plants that Soyer-Willemet’s 
name was re-established and the essential features of F. ScAleicheri satisfac- 
torily diagnosed in a tabular form in which they are contrasted in detail 
with F. officinalis, F. Wirtgenii, and F. Vaillantii—the species with which 
F. Sehleicheri had been previously hopelessly confused. This elucidation is 
a careful and accurate piece of work, clearly showing Haussknecht’s intimate 
knowledge of these plants, but his identification of F. Laggeri, Jord. with 
F. Chavinii, Reuter, rather than with F. Schleicheri, cannot be accepted, as 
explained at page 68 of “ Fumaria in Britain." Haussknecht’s determination 
was perhaps influenced by the fact that in Herb. Boissier Lagger's specimen 
of F. Laggeri is F. Chavinii. 
Even in quite recent years other species have occasionally been mistaken 
for F. Schleicheri, as in the exsiecata Fl. Austro-Hungarica, No. 2903 I, 
where F. Schrammii has been sent out under this name. 
According to Haussknecht, authentic material of F. carinata, Schur, 
Enum. Pl. Transsilv. p. 38 (1866), the identity of which is indeterminable 
from the author’s description, belongs to this species, but it is referred to 
F. Vaillantii in Simonkai’s Transylvanian Flora. 
The distribution of F. Schleicheri is shown by Haussknecht to extend from 
Montpellier and Nice, and from the mountains of Savoy across Central 
Europe and Russia to the Caucasus and the Altai District of Central Asia. 
It is also recorded for the Spanish province of Valencia (cf. Willkomm, 
