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F. media a. typica, Hamrn. 28. t. 3. 



F. rauralis, Bor. Fl. Cent. Fr. ed. 2, not Sond. 



Sep. soon falling, attached above their base, deeply toothed at 

 the base, often toothed throughout. Cor. rather large, pale, often 

 purplish, with a dark purple tip ; pet. gradually narrowed to an 

 acute point at the tip ; lower petal often free and either patent or 

 declining. Fruit with a narrow base, which is usually, perhaps 

 always, much narrower than the enlarged tip of the pedicel. The 

 vertical outline is rather quadrangular with the sides rounded and 

 top truncate ; apical pits small and deep. Fruit-stalks patent? 

 straight, or rarely slightly deflexed. 



This is probably the F. capreolata of Smith, under which name 

 Mr. A. Jordan received it from Sir "W. J. Hooker (Archiv, 305). 

 It is certainly the F. capreolata of Curtis' s beautiful plate in the 

 ' Flora Londinensis.' Sowerby's plate in ' English Botany' is pro- 

 bably taken from a specimen of F. Borcei, but may contain some 

 traces of F. muralis. A minute examination shows that the draw- 

 ing is not trustworthy. 



The specimen from Winandermere, with long bracts, referred to 

 F. capreolata in my paper published in the first volume of the Edin- 

 burgh Botanic Society's Transactions, is a state of F. Borcei. 



Lloyd (Fl. Ouest) describes the fruit of his F. Borcei as " un 

 peu plus long que large." It seems therefore probable that he may 

 include the F. pallidiflora under that name. The fruit of my plant 

 seems to be always rather broader than long, and is remarkable 

 for the squareness of its vertical outline and the stalk-like appear- 

 ance of its base : approaching in form to that of F. officinalis ; but 

 it is not so short relatively to its breadth, nor retuse. Its racemes 

 are few-flowered and short, thus difiering greatly from the long 

 and many-flowered ones of F. officinalis. 



F. Borcei is perhaps too nearly allied to F. pallidiflora ; at least 

 such seems to be the case when dried specimens are examined. 

 Its leaflets appear to be narrower relatively to their breadth. The 

 corolla is always much tinged with pink, which is rarely the case 

 with those of its ally. Its sepals are usually more toothed, and 

 are generally larger. Its fruit is diiferent in shape ; the base is 

 broader, but still not so broad as the tip of the pedicel, although 

 that part is less enlarged than in F. 'pallidiflora. 



I have seen F. Borcei from Tenby, Pembrokeshire ; Shrewsbury; 

 Windermere, Lancashire ; Grlenmore near Lisburn, co. Antrim 

 (Dr. J. II. Davics). 



