February, 1904. 33 



A I.IST OF THE IRISH FUMITORIES 

 IN THE HERBARIUM OF 

 THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, DUBLIN, 



BY MISS M. C. KNOWI.KS. 



SiNCK the publication of Mr. H. W. Pugsley's paper on the 

 British capreolate Fumitories in \h.^ Joiir7ial of Bofa7iy, April, 

 1902, it has become evident to Irish field botanists that the 

 list of Fumitories recorded from Ireland needs revision. To 

 help with this, last autumn, with Professor Johnson's consent, 



1 wrote to Mr. Pugsley to see if he w^ould be good enough to 

 go through and revise the naming of the Irish specimens in 

 the collections of the National Museum. He very kindly 

 agreed to do this, and these notes are based on the results of 

 his examination. 



Of the 102 Irish specimens sent, which comprised those in 

 the herbariums of A. G. More and H. C. Levinge as well as 

 those in the general Irish herbarium, Mr. Pugsley was able 

 to name 84 with certainty, as follows : — 29 Fumaria officinalis^ 

 L-, 25 F. co7ificsa, Jord., 12 F. capreolata^ L-, i\ F. Borcei, Jord., 



2 F. densiflora^ DC, i F. parviflo7'a^ Lam., 4 F. pitrpureay 

 Pugsley. 



Besides these, there are 6 specimens of an ally or variety of 

 F. co7ifusa which so far Mr. Pugsley has only seen from 

 Ireland, and about which he says he can come to no definite 

 conclusion until he has seen the plant growing wild. He 

 places it provisionally under F. co7i f 21 s a,] or d. as a variety, and 

 in the list these 6 specimens are so placed. 



Of the nine specimens in the collections that had been 



referred to F. 7nuralis, Sond., three have been transferred to 



F. BorcEi, Jord., four to F. co7ifiisa, Jord., and two to F. 



offici7ialis, L- ; and we are left without a single Irish specimen 



of true F. 77mralis. It will be interesting to see if it grows in 



Ireland at all. Mr. Pugsley says it is very rare in Britain. 



Among the large number of Fumitories from Great Britain in 



this Museum of which Mr. Pugsley has also kindly revised the 



naming, there is only one specimen of F. 77iuraliSf Sond., from 



the herbarium of Dr. Steele. 



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