12 THE GENUS FUMARIA IN BRITAIN 



The variety devoniensis was collected at Woolacombe, North 

 Devon, in 1898 and 1903. 



2, FuMARiA PURPUREA Pugsley. 



In the case of this species considerable fresh information has 

 been gained since 1902, but none such as to materially affect my 

 original account of the plant. No foreign specimens, but examples 

 from many British and Irish counties, have come under my notice, 

 and it may now be reasonably assumed that the species, which is 

 widely spread throughout these islands, is endemic. 



Except in two points, the plants examined show a general 

 uniformity which renders their determination easy. But some 

 specimens bear flowers so much larger than those originally 

 examined that I was at first disposed to think them a distinct 

 variety. After further experience, however, I am satisfied that 

 they are nothing more than an early large-flowered state, such as 

 may be observed with many other species of the genus. 



The second exceptional form, which occurs both in Great 

 Britain and Ireland, is characterized by relatively short sepals 

 and bracts, and seems in these respects to be permanently distinct 

 and a good variety, apparently somewhat analogous with Haussk- 

 necht's var. intermedia of F. capreolata. 



The plate of F. capreolata in Gurtis's Flora Londinensis ii. 145 

 (fasc. vi. 47), which Babington thought to represent the plant 

 now called F. purpurea, is pretty certainly drawn from the true 

 F. Borcei Jord. The short peduncles and bracts and few-flowered 

 racemes are good evidence of this, although the conspicuous neck 

 of the fruit recalls F. purpurea. The localities cited by Curtis 

 further point to F. Borcei being the plant intended. 



The synonymy, description, and distribution of F. purpurea, 

 which has not hitherto been fully diagnosed except as F. Borcsi, 

 are as follows : — 

 F. PURPUREA Pugsley in Journ. Bot. vol. 40, p. 135 (1902). 



F. Borcei Bab. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. iv. p. 157 (1859), et 

 passim, non Jordan. 



F. capreolata L. sub-sp. F. Borcei Syme, Eng. Bot. ed. 3, i. 

 p. 106 (1863). 



Icon. — Journ. Bot. xl. tab. 436, fig. 3. 



Exsiccata.—J . B. Syme, Dunearn Hill, Eife, 1871, Hb. Mus. 

 Brit, (as F. Borcei) ! E. Townsend, Great Malvern, 1881, Hb. 

 Mus. Brit, (as F. Borcei) ! G. Brotherston, Galashiels, 1874, Hb. 

 Mus, Brit, (as F. pallidiflora) ! 



Eumaria annua, habitu robusto, diffuso vel petiolis cirrhosis 

 scandente. Oaulis ramosior humiliorque quam in F. capreolata. 

 Eolia ut in F. capreolata, sed foliolis in lobos paulo angustiores 

 fissis. Bacemi multiflori (inferiores vulgo 20-24-flori), laxiusculi, 

 tandem elongati, pedunculis fere cBquilongi. BractecB lineari- 

 lanceolatae, acuminatas pedicellos fructiferos apice incrassatos 

 patenti-recurvos vel divaricatos cequantes aut inferiores interdum 

 multo longiores et foliatse. Sepala 5-6J 7nm. longa et 2-3 vim. 



