114 ENGLISH BOTANY 
and possess a specimen from the foot of Box Hill, Surrey; also one 
from Mr. J. G. Baker, from Cawton, north-west Yorkshire. 
England. Annual. Summer and Autumn. 
Stem 6 inches to 1 foot high, diffusely branched, with the 
branches ascending. Leaves with the lacinee very narrow, the 
petioles never acting as tendrils. Racemes } to ? inch long when 
in flower, and about 1 inch long when in fruit, on short stalks 
opposite the leaves. Sepals extremely minute, resembling scales, 
whitish. Flowers about 4 inch long. Spur of the upper petal about 
one-third of its length. Petals purplish rose-colour, the lateral 
ones tipped with dark purple. Pedicels of the fruit nearly twice as 
long as the bracts. The young fruit is pointed at the top, but 
becomes rounded when mature, “and is about =; inch in diameter. 
Plant greyish green, slightly glaucous. 
The extremely small sepals, smaller flowers, and the round fruit 
distinctly verrucose when dry, distinguish this plant from the upright 
states of F. officinalis. Mr. G. 8. Gibson states that the rose-coloured 
flowers become whitish as they fade. The sepals must be examined 
at a very early stage, as in this and F. parviflora they are much 
more caducous than in the preceding species. 
Le Vaillant’s Fumnitory. 
French, Fumeterre de Vaillant. German, Vaillants Prdrauch. 
This plant was named after Sebastian Vaillant, a distinguished French botanist, 
the friend of Tournefort, and successor to Fagon as Professor of Botany in the Jardin 
du Roi. His great work, entitled “ Botanicon Parisiense,” was published in 1727, 
after his death, by his literary executor Boerhaave. The genus Vaillantia cf De 
Candolle was named in honour of him. 
Sus-Species I.—Fumaria parviflora. Zam. 
Pirate LXXVIII.* 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. III. Pap. Tab. I. Fig. 4451. 
F. leucantha, Viv. Cors. i. p. 12. 
F. Vaillantii, partly Zab. E. B.S. Vol. 1V. No. 2877 (not in other writings). 
Racemes dense while in flower. Sepals triangular ovate, about 
one-eighth the length of the tube of the corolla, and one-half its 
breadth. Fruit pedicels about equal in length to the bracts. Mature 
fruit pointed at the summit. Segments of the leaflets channeled, 
narrowly strap-shaped or linear. 
A weed in cultivated ground. Rare, but apparently more abun- 
dant than F. Vaillantii. I have found it myself near Dartford, 
* The Plate is the original E. B. 590, with the magnified flower and fruit added from 
E. B.S. 2877, and the colouring corrected. 
