110 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
the expanded extremity. Pedicels sometimes a little longer and 
sometimes a little shorter than the coloured bracts, dilated at 
the apex. Fruit about 75 inch in each diameter, globose, very 
slightly compressed, with a very small apiculus formed by the 
remains of the style. Plant greyish ereen, glaucous. 
The much smaller flowers, and leaves with narrower segments, 
distinguish this plant at first sight from all the forms of F. capreo- 
lata; besides which there are the more important differences of the 
spatulate lower petal, and fruit pedicels not much exceeding the 
bracts in length. I have adopted the name of Lagasca, as it 
appears to be the first which has been applied exclusively to this 
plant. It is, however, extremely inappropriate, as the pliant often has 
the flowers nearly as large as F. officinalis, and from their being 
packed closely together produce the impression of being larger than 
they really are. De Candolle’s name of densiflora is much more 
expressive, and, in the opinion of MM. Grenier and Godron, 
undoubtedly belongs to this plant; but as micrantha is most 
generally used, I have not considered it expedient to depart from it. 
Calycina is the best, but unfortunately of more recent date. 
Close-Flowered Fumitory. 
SPECIES WI—FUMARIA OFFICINALIS. Lina. 
Puate LXXVI.* 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. III. Pap. Tab. III. Fig. 4454, 
Racemes rather lax, much elongated in fruit. Sepals ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, toothed, about one-third the length of the tube 
of the corolla, and about half as broad. Lower petals abruptly 
enlarged at the tip. Pedicels of the fruit ascending or ascending- 
patent, longer than the bracts. Fruit rugose when dry, depressed- 
globular, slightly compressed, longer than broad, truncate or 
retuse at the apex, with a very small apiculus, on each side of 
which there is a large shallow pit. Leaves twice or thrice pinnate ; 
the ultimate leaflets wedge-shaped, deeply cut; segments flat, 
elliptical, or elliptical-linear. 
A weed in cultivated ground, in hedges, roadsides, and waste 
places. Very common throughout the whole of Britain. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Summer, Autumn. 
Stem 1 to 2 feet long, diffusely branched, ascending, or in large 
examples weak and supporting itself bv the petioles. Leaves twice 
or thrice ternately pinnate; “the ultimate leaflets wedge-shaped, 
* The Plate is E. B, 589, with dissections added by Mr. J. E. Sowerby. 
