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narrower than those of F. cnpreolafa. Petioles often cirrliose in 

 rampant examples. Racemes up to 20-tlowere(l, rather lax and 

 lengthening- in fruit ; ptMluncles ahout as long as the racemes, 

 tlie lower sometimes longer. Bracts lanceolate-acuminate, 

 usually nearly as long as the fi-uiting pedicels, hnt occasionally 

 much shorter. Pedicels mnctlx thickened at the tip, straight and 

 suherect in fruit in open field forms, or arcnate and slightly 

 decurved in rampant plants. Plowers larger and more handsome 

 than in any other British form, 12-14 mm. long, rosy-white; 

 npper petal rather hroad, keeled, snhacute, with hroad wings 

 reflexed upwards, and reaching its apex, the wings externall}' 

 dark purple helow, with well-marked whitish niargins hefore 

 fertilization ; lower petal with green keel and hroad, whitish, 

 spreading or slightly detlcxcd wings, which extend to its apex ; 

 inner petals curved npwards, ohtuse, apienlate, tipped with dark 

 purple. Sepals 4-5.^- nun. long and 2-3 mm. hroad, ovate, 

 acuminate, frecfiiently irregularly incise-dentate towards the 

 hase, white, with greenish dorsal nerve, at least as hroad as the 

 corolla-tuhe Fruits large, suhrotund, smiwth and pointed when 

 fresh, witli an inconspicuous neck slightly narrower than the tip 

 of tlie pedicel ; when dry, coarsely but not deeply tuhercuilar- 

 rugose and distinctly keeled-compressed, with two shallow 

 apical pits, and the keel drawn into a very short, hlnnt heak, 

 which is notched at maturity. 



"So far as British plants are concerned, /'. occklodalis can 

 hardly be mistaken for any other species, at least in the 

 herbarium, its large, coarsely rugose frnits being quite distinct. 

 When growing, it is perhaps liable to be confounded with 

 F. confusa^ or, more probably, in the rampant state, with 

 F. capreolata, whose aspect it then assumes to some extent, owing 

 to the pale and recurving flowers. It may be distinguished 

 from F. confma, in addition to the larger and pointed fruits, by 

 the size of its flowers, with white-edged purple on the upper 

 petal, and proportionally larger sepals and longer bracts. The 

 rampant hn-ms are best separated from F. caprcolata by the same 

 fruit characters, and by the shape of the corolla ; the broad and 

 broadly winged upper petal and spreading margins of the lower 

 one, characteristic of the Agrarm, contrasting sharply with the 

 narrow, pointed petals, the upper little winged, and the lower 



