I860.] THE CAPREOLATE FUMARIiE OF BRITAIN, 105 



THE CAPKEOLATE EUMARI^ OF BRITAIN. 



[We have abridged the following description and remarks from 

 Mr. C. C. Babington's valuable paper, published in the sixteenth 

 number of the Linnsean Journal of Proceedings, February, I860.] 



Four plants have, in Britain, obtained the name of F. capreo- 

 lata, but that name is not properly applicable to any one of our 

 species, which are, — 



1. F. pallidiflora, Jord. — Sepals ovate, toothed, about half as 

 long as the corolla, and wider than the flower-tube ; fruit round- 

 ish-compressed, blunt, longer than wide, smooth ; the base of 

 the fruit less broad than the tip of its stalk ; bracts longer than 

 the pedicels while the flowers are in bloom, afterwards falling 

 short of the pedicels, which latter are reflected in the fruited 

 plant. Flower-spikes lax, short, bearing few flowers. 



Sepals soon falling, usually entire towards the joint, as broad 

 as or broader than the corolla-tube. Corolla large, cream- 

 coloured, tipped with red or pink ; tube thick. Fruit with a 

 short and rather narrow base,^ which is very nearly as broad as 

 the thickened tip of the pedicel ; edge not regularly rounded, but 

 the whole vertical outline rather quadrangular ; apical pits small 

 and deep. Fruit-stalks usually curved back, but sometimes only 

 patent or divaricate. 



The fruit is longer than broad, and its "base" has little of 

 the stalk-like character of that of its nearest ally, F, Borm, from 

 which F. pallidiflora also differs in its paler flowers and recurved 

 fruit-stalks. 



Devon, Somerset, Glamorgan, Caernarvon, Shropshire ; i. e. 

 west and south-west of England [to which may be added Galway, 

 in Ireland (A. G. More), thus far showing this plant to belong 

 to Watson's " Atlantic " type] . 



2. F. Borm, Jord. — Sepals broadly ovate, toothed, broader 

 than the flower-tube, and one-third shorter than it ; fruit round- 

 ish-compressed, flat-topped, broader than long, when ripe slightly 

 wrinkled, its base narrow, not broader than the tip of its own 

 pedicel ; bracts often a little longer than the foot-stalks during 



* The base of the fruit is famished with a fleshy mass, by which it is attached 

 to the pedicel. This, wliich is here spoken of as the " base," is only properly seen 

 upon the fresh plant, though less distinctly traceable if the seeds are immersed in 

 boiling water. 



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