GENERA FUMARIA AND RUPICAPNOS. JP 
multa, conferta, angusta, oblonga, laciniis curtis lanceolatis paulo latis haud 
canaliculatis predita, eis sectionis Jetroeapnos quarumdam specierum 
similia ; folia superiora ut in F. parvijlord. Flores satis magni, 6 mm. longi, 
albi; sepala lata. Fructis magni, obtusi, apiculati. Habitat in provinciá 
Oran Algeriæ. 
A further variety of F. parviflora, established as S. macrocarpa in J. Perez 
Lara's Florula Gaditana, pars 5, p. 64, in Anales de Hist. Nat. Soc. Espagn. 
(1898), is said to liave rosy flowers and fruits two or three times as large as 
in the type. 
Like F. Vaillantii, F. parviflora is one of the most widely spread members 
of the genus, having a somewhat similar range extending from Spain across 
Europe to Afghanistan and Beloochistan. It is clearly, however, a more 
southern species and one more impatient of cold. In Europe it is commonest 
in the Mediterranean region, and does not occur so far to the north and east 
as F. Vaillantii, being little known in Russia except in the Crimea 
(Herb. Pallas). Similarly in Asia it is absent from the distriets between the 
Caspian and Mongolia, where F. Schleicheri, F. Vaillantii, and F. Sehrammii 
have all been found. On the other hand, it is known from all the countries 
of North Africa from Morocco to Egypt, as well as from the Canaries. 
The commonest form of this polymorphie plant is no doubt the specific 
type, varying considerably in the form of its fruit and connected with most 
of the varieties by numerous intermediate forms. This occurs from the 
Canaries, Morocco and Spain eastwards to Syria and Mesopotamia. The 
variety Symei is known from Britain and Spain, and probably grows 
elsewhere ; var. acuminata is mostly a plant of Western Europe, but has been 
collected also in Asia Minor; var. glauca is pre-eminently a Mediterranean 
form, growing on the African as well as the European side and extending 
into Syria and Persia. Haussknecht’s varieties latiseeta and sinaitica are 
both Arabian forms, probably collected in natural habitats, and examples 
which he obtained in the desert near Bagdad seem almost identical with var. 
latisecta, which Haussknecht records also for Dalmatia. The two remaining 
varieties, both characterized by very obtuse fruits though dissimilar in other 
respects, are the most eastern forms of the species. The variety persica 
appears to bea prevalent form in Persia, growing also in Beloochistan, Syria, 
and the Taurus Mts. ; var. indicoides, which is presumably a rarer form, 
ranges, so far as is known, from Syria across Mesopotamia to Southern 
Persia. 
