218 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
edition of the Manual, F’. agraria Bab. was made a synonym of 
F’. capreolata L, var. y media, which soon afterwards was identified 
with F. confusa Jordan. Borrer’s plant is no longer in his her- 
barium at Kew, and it is impossible to determine ‘positively from 
Mr. Mitten’s description whether he was right or not in referring it 
to F’. agraria; but its subsequent identification with F. confusa Was 
more probably correct, although a future investigation of the fumi- 
tories about Tintagel may show it to age Be ged to the larger- 
flowered pe now found further to the 
Upon careful comparison of the et P Oobiitih plant with the 
specimens "af the British Museum and at Kew, and with the descrip- 
a marked contrast to the other endemic teat bs ry; pur ‘pur my 
which occurs here and there from. Penzance to Orkney, as well as 
in Ireland; but outside Britain or species ae been described 
from a single locality, and while a few members of the genus poneens 
& very W wide ran ge, a considerable proportion of the total number o 
known species are distinctly local. 
Fumaria occidentalis, sp.nov. Robusta, caule Mega es sub- 
erecto vel scandente. Folia 2-8 pinnatisecia, " lacinii s planis, 
longo-lanceolatis, obtuso-mucronatis vel acutis; petioli secundarii 
in formis scandentibus spe cirrhoso-convoluti. Racemi sub-20- 
flori, laxiusculi tandem elongati, pedunculis nune racemos sub- 
requantibus nune paulo superantibus. Bractee lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, sepissime pedicellos fructiferos subsequantes, raro multo 
breviores. Pedi cell. fructifert apice dilatati % exemplis arvalibus 
erecto-patentes rectique, in scandentibus patenti-recurvi. Flores magni, 
—14 mm. longi, roseo-aibidt; pe etalo superiore latiusculo, carinato, 
snbacuto, alis latis reflexis apicem attingentibus, externe margine 
albida atropurpureis ; petalo i nferiore carina viridi marginibus albi- 
dis, latiusculis, planis vel paulo deflexis apicem atin Ua: 
petalis gag Sa pt pater obtusis, arena apice atro- 
purpureis. Sep -53 mm. longa, 2-3 mm. lata, ovata, acuminata, 
infra medium pars ineequaliter in inciso-dentata, dhe 5: tubum lati- 
tudine saltem equantia, preter m dorsalem viridiusculum albida, 
Fructus magni, subglobosi, in 4 subacuti, leeves, stipite obscuro 
quam pedicelli apex paulo angustiore, siccitate tuberculato- -rugosi, 
bifoveolati, insigniter apice emarginato carinato-compresst. 
A plant of more robust habit than any other British fumitory, 
short, cabecit and branchy when growing in open fields, or with 
long, trailin stems on walls and hedgebanks. Leaves 2-3 pinnati- 
sect; with flat, incised leaflets and oblong-lanceolate lobes, oben 
Picasa or acute, usually a little narrower than those of F 
capreolata. Petioles often cirrhose in rampant e in Bait; Racemes 
