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THE BRITISH CAPREOLATE FUMITORIES. 
By H. W. Puastzy, B.A. 
(Puate 486.) 
In the summer of 1898, while enjoying a holiday in Devonshire, 
I collected a number of Fumitories, which upon my return to town 
by Mr. E. G. Baker and by Mr. C. R. P. Andre 
for British botany, has now left this country—I find that great dis- 
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have originated from errors on the part of one or two of our botanists 
who can only have fallen into them ¢} “baree pee ; 
and, perhaps, overmuch zeal in identifying 
British specimens with forms already described abroad. 
to the conditions under which they grow. Speaking generally, 
examples seen early in the year have larger and more highly 
coloured flowers than later ones found during the hot weather of 
summer or in the autumn.’ A ng the plants that grow in open, 
breezy fallows a short and branchy habit prevails, with spare foliage 
and flowers finer and deeper in hue than those of the same species 
found on the lax, straggling plants with ample — that flourish 
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Succeed them, and at times the difference between the earliest 
and latest flowers on the same plant is remarkable, in dry weather 
particularly, the latter being less than half the size of the former 
sider primarily the fruit and the sepals, which in all conditions, 
th wild and under cultivation, seem to uniformly maintain their 
characteristic features, 
Jougnat or Botany.—Vou, 40. [Apriz, 1902.] - 
