PAPAVERACE. 105 
Sus-Srecirs I.—Fumaria pallidiflora. Jord. 
Puate LXXI.* 
Bab. in Journal of Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. IV. No. 16, p. 162. 
Jord. in F. Schultz, Arch. p. 305. Boreau, Fl. du Centre de la Fr. ed. iii, Vol. II. p. 34. 
F, pallidiflora a, Jordani, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 17. 
F. speciosa, Lloyd, F). de ’Ouest de la Fr. p. 24 ? (non Jordan). 
Sepals ovate, denticulate, half or two-thirds the length of the tube 
of the corolla, and equalling or exceeding it in breadth. Flowers 
cream-colour tipped with reddish purple. Fruit pedicels recurved. 
Fruit nearly smooth when dry, roundish, compressed, longer than 
broad, sub-truncate at the apex, where there are two small but 
rather deep pits; neck of the fruit narrower than the enlarged apex 
of the pedicel. 
A weed in cultivated ground and in hedges. Apparently rather 
rare, and confined to the south-west of England. The only speci- 
mens I possess are collected by Miss Gifford near Dunster, Somer- 
set. Professor Babington gives also ‘Salcombe and Ilfracombe, 
Devon; Watchet, Somerset ; Oystermouth, near Swansea, Glamor- 
gan; Carnarvon; Oswestry, Shropshire.’ Mr. A. G. More has 
found it in the Isle of Wight. 
England. Annual. Summer and Autumn. 
Stem 1 to 8 feet long, weak, fragile, diffusely branched. Leaves 
twice or thrice ternately-pinnate; the ultimate segments obovate or 
wedge-shaped, lobed; lobes oblong or elliptical. Petioles often 
twisting and acting as tendrils. Racemes 1 to 1} inches long, 
both in flower and fruit, stalked, opposite the leaves. Flowers 
curved upwards at the point, about 4 inch long including the 
spur, which is nearly one-third the length of the upper petal, and 
blunt. Sepals broadly ovate, produced backwards behind the point 
of attachment, toothed, especially near the base, cream-colour. 
Upper petal cream-coloured, with a purple blotch at the tip, and 
occasionally a paler shade of the same colour extends backwards 
towards the base; lateral petals linear, slightly keeled, cream-colour 
with a purple apical blotch; lower petal linear, folded, gradually 
dilated towards the end, where it is greenish. Pedicels usually 
strongly recurved after flowering, longer than the coloured 
bracts, and dilated at the apex. Fruit about 7’ inch long, and 5/5 
inch broad, with a somewhat rectangular profile; at the base of 
the fruit there is a fleshy disk or collar, which is usually described 
* The Plate is from a drawing made by Mr. J. E. Sowerby, from a Somersetshire 
specimen. 
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