30 FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE RIVIERA 



HYPECOUM L. 



H. procumhens L. (Plate V). Leaves bipinnatlfid, with linear segments. 

 Flowers small, yellow, irregular, in a cyme, 2 petals being smaller than the 

 others; stem naked, more or less prostrate. Capsule sickle-shaped, divided 

 transversely into many i-seeded parts. 



Fields and sandy places on the littoral. April, May. 



FUMARIACE^E. 



Fruit sub-globose, i seeded, indehiscent FUMARIA. 



Fruit oval, i seeded, flattened, with thick rim, indehiscent PLATYCAPNOS. 



Fruit a 2-valved capsule, many seeded, dehiscent CORYDALIS. 



FUMARIA L. FUMITORY (all annual). 

 (Kindly revised by Mr. H. W. Pugsley, B.A.) 



F. major Bad. Leaves 2-3 pinnatisect, with oblong segments ; sepals 

 about a quarter the length of corolla. Corolla large, pink or red, dark crimson 

 at tip, upper petal broadly winged, lower petal with broad, spreading margins. 

 Fruit large, subrotund-obovate, shortly apiculate, coarsely rugose when dry. 

 Somewhat variable, but not rampant. 



Fields and waste places on the littoral. February-May. Common about 

 Hyeres and Carqueiranne. 



Mr. Pugsley tells me that fresh Spanish specimens of F. agraria Lag. 

 (formerly considered more or less synonymous) are " not in the least like 

 F. major much less so than when both are dry. The fruit of F. agraria 

 is much more compressed and distinctly beaked." 



F. capreolata L. Ramping Fumitory. Plant climbing by the twisting 

 petioles. Leaf segments broad, flat. Sepals large, oval, about half as long 

 as the corolla. Corolla large, white or dorsally purplish, dark crimson at tip, 

 narrowly winged, lower petal with narrow erect margins. Fruit small, very 

 obtuse, smooth when dry, borne on reflexed pedicels. Very variable and having 

 several named varieties of which . speciosa Hamtnar (= F. speciosa yard.) 

 has the corolla becoming entirely crimson and less laterally compressed than in 

 the type. 



Cultivated ground and waste places on the littoral. February- June. 



F. Bastard! Bar. Rarely rampant, with oblong leaf segments. Sepals 

 less than a third length of corolla. Corolla rather smaller than in capreolata, 

 pink, inner petals only tipped with purple, except in var. tiussoiiei ; lower petal 

 with very narrow spreading margins. Fruit of moderate size, more or less obtuse, 

 rugose when dry. 



Cultivated fields and waste places on the littoral. February-May. 



F. vagans Jord., with small, subacute fruits, and F. Gussonei Boiss., with 

 dark tipped corolla, are varieties also found in the Var. 



A plant first found at the He St. Marguerite (Lerins), off Cannes, by the late 

 Mr. Townsend and described as F. Loiseleurii Clav. . leronensis by Mons. 

 Burnat in " Fl. des Alpes-Marit." is thought by Mr. Pugsley to be a distinct 

 species. It has rather large pink flowers, with inner petals only tipped with 

 purple, very small sepals and 'bracts, and pointed fruits which become black- 

 spotted. 



F. Kraliki Jord. = F. anatolica Boiss. This Eastern species, easily 

 known by its small purplish flowers with very large sepals, and small fruits on 

 reflexed pedicels, was found subspontaneous in the crops at Hyeres by Shuttle- 

 worth. It has since been seen in similar conditions near Antibes and Marseilles. 



F. micrantha Lag. = F. densiflora DC. Erect or diffuse, almost 

 glaucous. Leaf segments narrow, nearly linear. Flowers rose or pinkish white 

 with purplish tip, small, in dense heads ; lower petal dilated at the apex. Sepals 

 large, broader than corolla and half as long. Fruit of moderate size, nearly 

 globose, with round top, rugose when dry. 



