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SPECIES IL—FUMARIA MICRANTHA. Lay. 
Pirate LXXV.* 
Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 18. Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. p. 20. 
“ Lagasca, Noy. Gen. et Sp. XXI. n. 281 (1816).” och, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. 
ed. ii, p. 1018. Boreaw, Fl. du Centre de Ja Fr. ed. iii, Vol. IL. p. 34. Lloyd, 
Fl. de l'Ouest de la Fr. p. 25. Brebisson, FI. de la Normandie, p. 17. 
F. densiflora, D. C. Cat. Monsp. (1813), p.113; and Fl. Fr. Vol. V. p. 588. Gr. & Godr. 
FI. de Fr. vol.i. p. 68. God. F. de Lorraine, Vol. I. p. 31. Coss. & Germ. Fl. des 
Environs de Paris, ed. ii. p. 99. 
F.calycina, Bab. Trans. of Bot. Soc. Edin. Vol. I. p. 34. 
Racemes very dense while in flower, elongated in fruit. Sepals 
very broadly ovate, acute, toothed, about half the length of the flower 
and exceeding it in breadth. Lower petal abruptly enlarged at the 
tip. Pedicels of the fruit ascending or ascending- Laan about as 
long as the bracts. Fruit rugose when dry, Satie scarcely com- 
pressed, rounded at the apex where there is a very small apiculus, 
on each side of which there are two small shallow pits. Leaves 
twice or thrice pinnate; the ultimate leaflets wedge-shaped, deeply 
cut ; segments flat or slightly channeled, strap-shaped or linear. 
A weed in cultivated ground, in hedges and by roadsides. 
Apparently local. It occurs in Kent, Surrey, Shropshire; in 
Haddingtonshire it is very common, and I have also seen it in 
the counties of Edinburgh, Linlithgow, and Forfar. 
England, Scotland. Annual. Summer, Autumn. 
Stem 1 to 3 feet long, weak, fragile, diffusely branched, or in 
small examples erect and nearly simple. Leaves twice or thrice 
ternately-pinnate; the ultimate segments rather short and narrow, 
often appearing narrower than” they really are from being 
channeled. Petioles of the leaves sometimes acting as tendrils. 
Racemes about an inch long when in flower, elongated to nearly 
double this length in fruit, on very short stalks, opposite the 
leaves. Flowers + to } inch long, including the spur, which is 
nearly one-third the length of the upper petal, and blunt. Sepals 
roundish-ovate, acuminate, much produced backwards behind the 
point of attachment, finely toothed, membranous, whitish tinged 
with green on the central line and tipped with purplish rose- colour. 
Upper and lower petals purplish rose-colour, the lateral petals 
whitish, with a red keel, all tipped with dark purple; the upper 
petal has a very decided tint of green at the apex, and the lower 
petal, which is spatulate, has a slighter tinge of the same colour on 
* The Plate is E. B.S. No. 2876, without alteration, 
