166 MR. C. C. BABINGTON ON TUMARIA. CAPEEOLATA. 



4. F. MURALis (Sond.) : sepalis ovatis acutis basi dentatis tubi corollsc 

 latitudinem subaequantibus eodemque f brevioribus, fructibus ob- 

 ovato-compresfsis apice rotundatis parvis sublaevibus, basi fructus 

 lata obconica pedicelli apice paulo angustiore, bracteis pedicellos 

 floriferos sequantibus /rwc^i/en* erecto-patentibus brevioribus, racemis 

 evolutis laxis brevibus paucifloris. 



F. muralis, Sond.l in Koch, Syn. ed. 2. 1017; FL H amb. 3S5. Jord. 

 Cat. Dij. 1848, 19. Lowe I FL Madeira, 13. Fries, Summa, 146; 

 FL Dan. t. 2473. 



F. Petteri, Koch, Syn. ed. 2. 435 (not Reichenb.). 



F. capreolata var. media. Fries, Mant. iii. 88. 



F. capreolata (type), height. ! FL Shrop. 344. 



F. media y. muralis, Hamm. 29. t. 4. 



Plant usually more lax than its allies. Corolla smaller than 

 that of F. eonfusa, tipped " dark atro-purpureous or black." 

 Petals abruptly apiculate. The fleshy base is not nearly so broad 

 as the fruit, and narrows very conspicuously from above down- 

 wards to the pedicel, the tip of which slightly exceeds it in 

 width. The fruit, together with its base, has thus, when fresh, 

 an obovate or nearly pyriform outline ; it is equally rounded at 

 the top as elsewhere, and neither pointed nor retuse, as is well 

 remarked by Mr. Lowe ; the apical pits are usually so very slightly 

 impressed as almost to escape notice. The bracts are often not 

 more than half as long as the fruit-stalks. 



Pries seems to include under his F. muralis the plant of Sender 

 and also the F. eonfusa of Jordan ; for he states (Mant. iii. 88) 

 that it is the F. capreolata of Eng. Bot. (t. 943), and says of it, 

 " G-allise occidentali, Britanniae prsecipue boreali et Norwegise 

 extimis oris propria videtur." The plant of Western Prance is 

 certainly the F. eonfusa. What the Norwegian plant may be is 

 unknown to me, for I have not seen a specimen ; but as it is 

 found " NorwegisD maxime occidentalis," it may well be the true 

 plant. 



This is probably the type of the F. capreolata y, Anglica (Arn.), 

 which is considered as the true F. capreolata by Leighton. A 

 considerable series of Leighton's specimens is before me, some of 

 which were named (y. Anglica^ by Arnott. But, apparently, 

 Arnott included the F. eonfusa, and perhaps F. Borcei, in that 

 variety. Leighfcon seems to have inclined towards the ^opinion 

 that his two forms of F. capreolata were distinct species, as is the 

 fact. To him therefore is due the credit of first discriminating 

 between F. Borcei and F. muralis in this country, although he 

 refrained from naming the new species, and was unacquainted 



