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it in a cultivated state. Professor De Candolle, in his '' Reg- 

 num Vegetabile,'" places it among the species little known, and 

 adds, that what he has received from the German gardens un- 

 der this name is merely Diphtaxis tenuifolia : in his Prodro- 

 mus no notice whatever is taken of the plant. Sprengel, in his 

 Systema Vegetabilium, adopts De Candolle's idea ; and as Spren- 

 gel ought to be acquainted with Willdenow'^s plants, it is pos- 

 sible that ours may not be what Willdenow intended. Our Cer- 

 dagne plant, however, agrees well with his character ; and indeed 

 I can scarcely believe it to be any thing but a glabrous-podded 

 variety of S. asperum. Between Bourg-Madame and Seo d'Ur- 

 gel we observed many scarce Pyrenean plants, although they 

 were to be met with in the warmer districts of France : indeed, 

 during the whole route, we encountered a curious intermixture 

 of meridional and alpine productions ; and, from various cir- 

 cumstances, we had every reason to believe that this road had 

 never before been trod by botanists. Among such as we ga- 

 thered specimens of, chiefly for the sake of the locality, I may 

 mention Clematis recta, Alyssum halimifolium, Galium mari- 

 timum ! (we had already found this plant at Prades, at a great 

 distance from the sea, and we here again found it still more in- 

 land, the nearest point of the shore being seventy miles, or, fol- 

 lowing the course of the Segre and Ebro, about two hundred 

 miles from the sea), Adonis CBstivaliSf Ononis ColumncB and 

 striata, Myosotis lappula, Fumaria Vaillantii *, Santolina 

 squarrosa, Benth. Cat. (but scarcely of other authors ; I suspect 



• The " Fumaria Jiaccida, Fisch. mst., F. officinalis, var. auct." is, I think, 

 identical with this species. 



In a former Number of this Journal (April 1827, p. 243.), I had occasion 

 to speak of F. capreolata, and from what I then stated, it may be supposed 

 that I deny the existence of that plant in this country. It is, however, by 

 no means uncommon, but much more scarce than F. media, DC with which 

 it has been often confounded. There is no doubt that both Smith and Wi- 

 thering had the Linnean plant in view, although all the English synonyms 

 are referred by De Candolle to his F. media. F. capreokUa, as it is found in 

 the south of France, and as characterized by De Candolle, has the fructiferous 

 peduncles most remarkably recurved. Such English and Scotch specimens, 

 however, as I have seen, have them scarcely more than patent, and more fre- 

 quently as erect as in F. media, which circumstance has tended to mislead the ' 

 author of the Prodromus ; but there are other characters which I consider of 

 more importance : in F. capreotata the sepals are oval, scarcely acute, toothed 



