48 GUERNSEY. 
has been noted during the last ten years in many parts of the 
interior, as well as on the coast. Mr. Andrews has found a pink 
form on a bank above Les Terres, and another with dark, red-purple 
flowers in a field near the Gouffre: these are probably var. sfeczosa, 
Jord. 
Fumaria Boraei, Jord. 
Colonist. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Generally distributed and quite as common as /. confusa, but 
until recently both species have been mixed up under the latter 
name. Thirty years ago Dr. Trimen expressed the opinion ( Journ. 
Bot. 1871, p. 198) that ‘the common Channel Island plant, which 
has large pink flowers, bears more resemblance to /. Aoraez than to 
any other British variety.’ In Gosselin’s herbarium there is 2 
specimen labelled / oficinalts. 
Fumaria confusa, Jord. Rampant Fumitory. 
Colonist. First record: Babington, 1839. 
Common in cultivated ground in all parts of the island. It is 
the /. capreolata, L. of Fl. Sarn. p. 4, which Babington afterwards 
referred to /. confusa, Jord. 
The patois name is Feuwmeterre. The word Fumitory, or as Shake- 
speare writes it in Avug Lear, iv. 4, Humiter, and the French Fumeterre, 
come from the old Latin name of the plant, Aizmus terrae, or earth 
smoke, because it was supposed to be produced without seed from 
vapours rising out of the earth. Doubtless this originated in the 
singular property of the root, which, when freshly pulled up, emits 
a strong odour very like that of nitric acid. 
Fumaria muralis, Sond. Wall Fumitory. 
Colonist. First found: Andrews, 1900. 
Rare. On a bank above Les Terres, and at Casrouge (IVv.), 
Le Graie (vi.), and on a wall at Cobo (Andrews). Also found at the 
Gouffre by Miss B. Agnew. 
Fumaria officinalis, L. Common Fumitory. 
Colonist. First record: Babington, 1839. 
Frequent in gardens and cultivated ground, but less common 
than /. confusa and /. BSoraet. In Alderney I have found an inter- 
mediate form with exactly the rampant habit of confusa, and the 
flowers and fruit of eficnalis: probably 7. media, Loisel. Although 
the name appears in Gosselin’s list, the specimen so labelled in his 
herbarium is / Boraez, 
