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A NEW FUMABIA. 
By H. W. Puesuey, B.A. 
(Puare 462.) 
Tuat a new Fumaria—one of the in oe in the whole 
gait ehauld be discovered at the present day in Great Britain 
i b e 
of Haussknecht’s monograph of 1873 has been ignored in all of our 
Floras published since that year, and that a species so widely dis- 
eet in these islands as F’. confusa anche ee tn the notice 
Syme, the complete neglect of the s by British part 
aie the latter part of the ninstseill "Shiite will be r d, 
and the publication of a new species at this we date will poor 
less vasa tay able. 
suspicion of the existence of a new British fumitory oc- 
curred rit the end of the spring of aoa when, in looking over 
the specimens in He collection of Mr. A. O. Hume, 'B., remarked, 
under F’, pallidiflora, a form from New wquay, Cornwall, which I could 
not assign to any recognized British species; and very shortly after- 
wards thie Rev. H. J. Riddelsdell sent mea similar plant from Helston. 
Both of these plants were noticeable for their handsome flowers and 
large, rugose fruits; and I saw that, although they resembled FP. 
capr eolata in the eibctie of the corolla, i in respect of the rugosity of 
the fruits F’. confusa was their ipa regent ly. 
In the following June, without attempting to work out these 
specimens or compare them with wise continental forms, I went 
to West Cornwall for a short holiday, and while at Penzance in quest 
of I’, speciosa, I met with a splendid patch of rampant fumitory, 
which I immediately saw was quite new to me, pnd identical with 
the cod Dh pire by Mr. Hume and Mr. Riddelsdell. 
sory examination of these living examples sufficed to show 
that they were clearly different from F. confusa, and, indeed, from 
every other British species, and were rather allies or forms of the 
er ’ 
in two separate spots at Helston, and since that date Dave Boea spe- 
cimens collected by various botanists at Newquay, where it is said 
to be ~ frequent occurrence. 
r thus seeing the plant in the living see I fully expected 
to be able to identify it with F. agra r F’. major Badarro, both 
natives of South Europe, and, Vie: ian no speciment except of 
very recent date, I suspected it to be an introduction in Cornwall, 
d. 
this connection it may be of interest to note that F’. agraria 
Tag was published as * Spo plant so long ago as 1848, when 
Mr. Mitten recorded i the London Journal of Botany, p. 556; 
the plant described by him was at that time a Borrer’s herbarium, 
and had been collected at Tintagel, Cornwall. In the e following 
year, Babington, writing in the Botanical Gazette, p. 61, reported 
the same form from North Wales. In 1851, however, in the thi rd 
Journat or Borany.—Vou. 42. [Ave. 1904.] Q 
