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as the “base of the fruit,’ but which I prefer to designate “ the 
neck,’ as to an unpractised observer this term will, I believe, more 
readily direct his attention to the part of the fruit under considera- 
tion, from which the principal characters employed to separate the 
sub-species of F. capreolata are taken. In the present plant, this 
neck passes gradually into the fruit, which is broader than the 
neck; the latter is also narrower than the enlarged apex of the 
pedicel, Plant pale green, glaucous. 
Sun-Srrecirs IL—Fumaria Borei. Jord. 
Prats LXXII.* 
Bab.in Journal of Proceedings of the Linnzan Society, Vol. IV. No. 16, p. 163. Baker, 
Rep. of Thirsk Nat. Hist. Soc. 1861, p. 5. 
Jord. “Cat. Grenob. 1849, p. 15.” Pugillus Plant. Nov. p. 4. Boreau, FI. du Centre 
de la Fr. ed. iii. vol. ii. p. 34. Lloyd, Fl. de POuest de la Fr. p. 24. Breb. Fl. 
de la Normandie, p. 17. 
EF. pallidiflora 2, Borei, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 17. 
F. capreolata 3, Leightonii, Bad. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. iv. p. 17. 
F. muralis, Boreau, Fl. du Centre de la Fr. ed. ii. No. 95 (non Sonder), 
Sepals broadly ovate, acute, about two-thirds the length of the 
tube of the corolla, and exceeding it in breadth. Corolla pale pur- 
plish pink, tipped with dark purple. Fruit pedicels patent. Fruit 
slightly rugose when dry, roundish, compressed, rather broader than 
long, sub-truncate at the apex where there are two small but rather 
deep pits. Neck of the fruit narrower than the enlarged apex of 
the pedicel. 
A weed in cultivated ground and in hedges. Probably common 
and generally distributed. I have specimens from Ilkley, York- 
shire; Haddingtonshire; Orkney; and Professor Babington gives 
the following localities : —‘* Tenby, Pembrokeshire ; Shrewsbury ; 
Windermere, Lancashire; Glenmore, near Lisburn, co. Antrim.” 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Summer, Autumn. 
Extremely like F. pallidiflora, of which Professor Babington now 
makes it a variety, and it is very probable that it may be so, but this 
can only be determined by continued cultivation. To my eyes it 
appears as distinct from F. pallidiflora as F. muralis is from F. con- 
fusa. The flower is of a delicate pink tinged with purple, while 
* The figure in the plate is F. capreolata. E. B. No. 943, with dissections added 
by Mr. Sowerby from the plant sent by Mr. Baker from Ilkley ; the fruit represented 
in the state in which it appears when moistened in warm water, as the neck loses its 
shape when dried, but recovers it to a great extent when treated in this manner. 
