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he more or less flirted witli botany. When, in 1898, lie took up 

 the subject seriously he was pnzzled about a lai'ge-flowered 

 fumitory of the paUidiflora type which was very common in and 

 around Newquay, and which would not tally with any descrip- 

 tion to which Dr. Vigurs then had access. Two or three batches 

 of specimens were first sent to Mr. G. C. Druce, of Oxford, but 

 without satisfactory result, and until 1901 the foundling received 

 no further attention. In that year Mr. A. 0. Hume came to 

 Newquay, and was shown tlie plant, specimens of which were 

 taken for his herbarium. During the spi'ing of 1902, when 

 examining Mr. Hume's Fmnarirf;, Mr. Pugsley " remarked, under 

 F. paUidiflora, a form from Newc[uay, Cornwall, which I could 

 not assign to any recognized British species ; and very shortly 

 afterwards the rev. H. J. Eiddelsdell sent me a similar plant 

 from Helston. Both of these plants were noticeable for their 

 handsome flowers and large rugose fruits. In the following 

 year . . . while at Penzance in quest of F. speciosa, I met 

 with a splendid patch of rampant fumitory, which I imn^ediatel}' 

 saw was quite new to me, and identical with the plants gathered 

 by Mr. Hume and Mr. Eiddelsdell." ■•' More recently, when 

 looking through the herbarium of Mrs. E. S. Gregory, of 

 Weston-super-Mare, Mr. Pugsley found similar specimens, 

 labelled "Margin of a wood, Lelant." 



After carefully looking up the literature of the subject, and 

 consulting most of the leading continental herbaria, Mr. Pugsley 

 was satisfied that he had unearthed not only a new plant, 

 but also a plant whose range was apparently restricted to 

 West Cornwall. With F. p2irpurea, whose discovery in Cornwall 

 I announced a year ago, it constituted a second endemic species 

 for Britain. As this is one of the most important botanical dis- 

 coveries of the year, I take the liberty to introduce Mr. Pugsley's 

 description of the plant. 



"A plant of more robust habit than any other British 

 fumitory, short, suberect and branchy when growing in open 

 fields, or with long, trailing stems on walls and hedgebanks. 

 Leaves 2-3 pinnatisect ; with flat, incised leaflets and oblong- 

 lanceolate lobes, obtuse-mu.cronate or acute, usually a little 



" Journal of Botany," August, 1904, p. 217. 



