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F. micrantha, Lag. e.b. 2876. l.b.s. 52. 



A. 10. C. 50? Lat. 52-57°. Alt. 0-200 yds., in England. 

 Tern. 49-47°? 



Stems 8-12 inches high. Leaves bipinnate, with linear, acute, 

 chaunellcd segments (Grenier). Flowers in lax, not long clus- 

 ters, with oblong, pointed, spreading bracts, which are nearly as 

 long as the pedicels. Sepals ovate-rounded, broader than the 

 tube of the corolla, and about half as long. Fruit nearly glo- 

 bular, broad (the horizontal diameter is greater than the perpen- 

 dicular or axial), at an early stage pointed, afterwards obtuse 

 and scarcely apiculate, rough. Seed depressed at the apex. 



Cornfields, in Kent: Annual; July-September. — F. densi- 

 flora, DC. Cat. Mons. (1813).— F. micrantha, Lag. Fl. Matrit. 

 (1816). 



F. parviflora. Lam. e.b. 590. l.b.s. 53, 51. — F. Vaillantii, 

 see Cybele, vol. i. p. 113. 



A. 12. C. 55. Lat. 50-57°? Alt. 0-200 yds., in England.* 



Stems shorter than in F. micrantha. Leaves 2-3-pinnate, 

 with linear, flat, pointed segments. Flowers in lax clusters, 

 with linear bracts, which are shorter than the erect spreading 

 pedicels. Sepals linear, pointed, toothed, broader than the pedi- 

 cels, and one-sixth part of the length of the petals. Petals white, 

 tipped with purple. Fruit globular, apiculate. 



Dry, sandy fields. Annual ; May-August. 



F. Vaillantii, Lois. e.b. 2877. l.b.s. 54. 

 For range and statistics see F. parviflora. 



Stems 1-8 inches high. Leaves 2-3-pimiate, with fiat, linear, 

 pointed segments. Flowers in lax clusters, with linear bracts, 

 which are shorter than the erect spreading pedicels. Sepals 

 linear, acute, toothed, narrower than the pedicels, about one- 

 sixth part of the length of the corolla, which is purple, not white 

 as in F. parviflora. Fruit globular, rounded at the apex, not api- 

 culate. Flowers and fruit smaller than in F. officinalis, and the 

 segments of the leaves are narrower and more pointed. 



Cornfields. Annual; June-September. 



F. agraria, Lag. — F. major, Reich. 4455. — Is reported from 



* " I remain unacquainted witli any evidence or argument sufficing to show 

 that we have more than one species under the two names of parviflora and Vail- 

 lantii, after separating micrantha therefrom." — Mr. H. C. Watson, in Cybele, 

 vol. 1. J). 114. 



