THE GENUS FUMARIA IN BRITAIN 9 



resemble in outline those of the Continental type rather than the 

 common British form, I think it should be maintained as a 

 separate variety. 



The synonymy, description, and distribution of these plants 

 will therefore stand as follows : — 



F. CAPREOLATA L. Spec. Plant, ed. i. p. 701 (1753) ; Parlat. Mon. 

 Fum. p. 76 (1844) ; Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. i. p. 66 (1850) ; 

 Hamm. Mon. p. 24 (1857) ; Haussknecht in Flora, p. 539 

 (1873) ; Eouy & Foucaud, Fl. de Fr. i. p. 171 (1893) ; Nicotra, 

 Le Fumar. Ital. p. 43 (1897). 

 F. pallidiflora Jordan in Schultz, Archives, p. 305 (1854) ; 



Boreau, Fl. du Centre de la Fr. ed. 3, p. 34 (1857). 

 [F. speciosa Jord. in Cat. Grenoble (1849) = a variety perhaps 

 found in Guernsey, but not known in Britain.] 



Icones. — Flora Danica, t. 2359 ; Hamm. Mon. tab. iii. fig. 1 ; 

 Journ. Bot. xl. tab. 436, fig. 2 (as F. s2:)ecios a J ovd.). 



Exsiccata. — Heldreich, Herb. Grsec. Norm. no. 1003 ! Bour- 

 geau, Pyrenees Espagnoles, 1847, no. 391 (also well represented at 

 Kew) ! Neugebauer, Fl. Exsicc. Austro-Hungarica, no. 2899 ! 



A plant of generally robust habit, sparingly branched and with 

 long internodes, diffuse or suberect, and climhing by its cirrhose 

 petioles sometimes to a height of several feet. Leaves irregularly 

 2-3 pinnatisect, light green ; the leaflets incised with oblong or 

 cuneiform, acute or mucronate lobes. Bacemes rather dense, 

 many (sub-20) floiuered, and, at least the lower ones, sJiorter than 

 their peduncles. Bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, usually a 

 little shorter than the stout fruiting pedicels, which are normally 

 rigidly arcuate-recurved in flower and fruit (the curve showing 

 chiefly towards the base), but occasionally in starved or shade- 

 grown plants are straight and divaricate. Sepals 4-6 mm. long 

 and 2^-3 7nm. broad, normally broadly oval but narrower when 

 shade-grown, peltate, more or less toothed about the base but 

 usually entire towards the acute or shortly acuminate apex, whitish 

 in colour and often dorsally marked with green, broader than the 

 corolla-tube. Corolla 10-14 mm. long, but not often exceeding 

 12 mm., creamy lohite in colour, with the tip of the inner petals 

 and the loings of the upper one blackish red, and sometimes, 

 indeed, usually after fertilization, a reddish dorsal suffusion. 

 Upper petal dorsally very narroio, acute, the loings not reaching 

 the apex, and not covering the greenish heel : loiuer petal loitli erect 

 and very narroiu margins. Fruit small, 2 mm. long and a trifle 

 less in breadth, subrotund, little compressed laterally and obscurely 

 keeled, very obtuse but not truncate, and smooth when dry, with 

 small but well-marked apical pits. 



p. Babingtonii, nov. var. 



F. pallidiflora Babington in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. iv. p. 157 

 (1859), et passim, non Jordan. 

 F. capreolata L. subsp. F. pallidiflora Syme, Eng. Bot. ed. 3, i. 

 p. 105 (1863). 



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