116 The Flora of Wiltshire. 



next species "F. officinalis,'" (Linn.) by most of my correspondents. 

 It varies much in habit, but is best distinguished by its large petals 

 and cali/cine leaves, with globose fruit, rather longer than broad, its 

 stems generally climbing, sometimes only diffuse. This plant can 

 never be confounded with the next, if attention is paid to the struc- 

 ture of the flowers and fruit, although the variety " F. media" 

 (Lois.) of that species closely resembles it in appearance. 



2. " F. officinalis," (Linn.) officinal or common Fumitory. Engl. 

 Bot. t. 589. Reich. IconesJ. 4454. 



Locality. In waste and cultivated ground, hedge banks, fields, 

 and gardens. A. Fl. May, September. Area. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



Generally distributed throughout all the Districts. A very variable 

 plant both in habit and growth, sometimes having its stems erect, 

 occasionally becoming diffuse and rampant-like " F. capreolata," 

 (Linn.) (the diffuse form of Ray and Smith), when it is the "F. 

 media " (Lois.) and of British botanists, it has paler flowers, broader 

 and flatter segments to the leaves, but does not otherwise differ. 

 This species may readily be distinguished from the last, as Mr. H. 

 C. Watson observes, by the very broadly dilated and almost orbi- 

 cular extremity of (particularly) the lower petal, which in " F. ca- 

 preolata" (Linn.) is narrowly spoon-shaped, and ladle-shaped in "F. 

 officinalis," (Linn.) 



3. F. "micrantha" (Lagasca.) Small flowered Fumitory. Engl. 



Bot. Suppl. t. 2876. Hook Ic. PI. t. 633. 



Locality. In cultivated fields. A. June, September. Area. 

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South Division. 



1. South-east District, Plentifully in cultivated fields near Wick, 

 where Mr. James Hussey and myself discovered it in June 1850, 

 and I am not aware that it has been since noticed in Wilts. 



This is the " F. micrantha," (Lagasca.) who separated this from 

 " F. parviflora" (Lam.) in his " Generum specierumque, plantarum 

 novarum aut minus cognitarum diagnoses," where he gives the fol- 

 lowing characters of the two. F. parviflora, " calycibus minimis, 

 floribus erectis, foliis pinnato-decompositis, foliolis tripartitis incisis 

 linearibus ;" and "F. micrantha," "calycibus cordate rotundatis cor- 



