134 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
latioribus quam longis demum paulisper rugulosis, basi fructus 
angusta pedicellique apicem haud superante, bracteis spe pe edicellos 
floriferos paulo excedentibus fructiferis patentibus brevioribus.’ 
Babing ton further mentions as one of its most conspia 
characters ‘‘the base or ‘neck’ of the fruit,’ which is ‘‘very n 
and nearly as long as broad, forming a kind of stalk: to the frat, - 
d is ‘‘more conspicuous in F’. Borei than in Ff. pallidiflora.” In 
continuation, he observes: ‘“ The fruit = my plant (without its 
base) seems to be always broader than long, and is remarkable for 
the squareness of its vertical outline Badd the stalk-like appearance 
of its base, oe in pe to that of /’. officinalis L., but less 
broad and ret F’, Borat is perhaps too nearly allied to F. pal- 
lidiflora. ia sacle is arate tinged with pink; its sepals are 
usually more toothed, and generally larger.’ 
In this description, the fruit- stalks are ee to be * patent, 
straight, or rarely slightly deflexed’’; but in Curtis’s plate of 
F’, capreolata in the Flore Landinensiy which “ah tips considered 
to certainly represent F'. Bor they are shown as somewhat 
recurved. In this figure, also, ie characteristic neck of the fruit 
is plainly indicated, but the sepals are much less than two-thirds as 
long as the corolla-tube. 
Syme, in the third edition of English Botany, furnishes an 
account of #’. Bor@i which only differs from Babington’s in one 
= chp details. In distinguishing F. Borei from F. pallidiflora, he 
tes a difference in the recurving of the —— see he also 
pou ‘‘patent or divaricate’’), the curve in F’, B not being a 
the base of the pedicel, as in its ally. By this anthor te neck of 
the sgt is considered to be, in both plants, very sim 
In recent editions of Babington’ s sana) and the Student’ s Klora 
F, Bowe is reduced to the rank of a variety of F’. capreolata L., 
Babington adding that the scmeale is purplish, and the fruit- stalks 
patent; and Hooker that the sepals are smaller and the petals 
in which the fruiting pedicels are not clearly straight. It is surely 
impossible to reconcile the stalk-like neck of the fruit which 
brevissimo.” square vertical outline of the fruit, broader 
than long, seems hardly compatible with the French author’s 
* fructu subrotundo-obovato obtusissimo.” = eet 
and "syue should consider them nearly twice as long as they 
appeared to 
The explanation of these inconsistencies became apparent to me 
upon re-examining the Fumitories labelled F. Borai in the British 
