ON A NEW SPECIES OF FUMARIA. 557 
To the synonyms, which have been taken verbatim from Parla- 
tore, I have not thought it advisable to add that of Fumaria 
media, Loisel: Notices p. 101, et 102? and Reichenbach icon. f. 
4455, both cited by Koch: for of the first, Koch observes: “ In 
hanc ea que Loisel de sua F. media protulit magis quadrant quam 
in ceteris hujus generis species Europæas, sed auctores dubitant 
quin vera sit planta illius auctoris;” and Reichenbach’s figure 
represents a plant so much like F. officinalis, that I know not how 
it differs from that species. 
The only British Fumaria, with which the mme handsome 
species can be compared, is F. capreolata, which in size and gene- 
ral appearance very much resembles it, from which, however, it 
may be clearly distinguished by’ its more erect and rigid stems, 
its smaller and more deeply toothed sepals, and its rough fruit. 
Fumaria agraria appears to be found chiefly in the warmer 
parts of Europe, and can therefore only be expected to occur in 
the southern counties of England, where it may possibly haye 
been overlooked for a state of F. capreolata; to which species 
indeed Mr. Borrer tells me he had referred it. 
A plant occurs in this neighbourhood, in garden-ground, of 
which I find specimens from Germany, in Mr. Woods’s herbarium, 
named Fumaria peregrina, Kübler, but which, at present, I am dis- 
posed to consider a small-flowered state of F. capreolata. 
Hurstpierpoint, June, 1848. 
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