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than in F. muralis, about half as long as the slender fnciting 

 pedicels, which though somewhat flexuous are snherect and never 

 recurved. Sepals about 3 mm. long and l|-2 mm. broad, broadly 

 oval, peltate, subentire or with a few shallow teeth round the base, 

 shortly pointed, whitish in colour with a narrow green median 

 line or sometimes suffused with pink, not broader than the 

 corolla-tube, sometimes persisting after the petals have fallen. 

 Corolla about 10 mm. long, pink in colour, with the tip of the 

 inner petals and the loings of the upper one blackish red. Upper 

 petal hardly broad though dorsally compressed as in F. muralis, 

 and with similar wings, but obtuse owing to their spathulate 

 dilation extending to the apex ; spur longer than the sepals. 

 Lower petal with erect but very narrow margins. Fruits rather 

 small, slightly exceeding 2 mm. in length and equally broad, very 

 shortly obovate in profile, almost truncate, and narrowed below to 

 an obscure Heshy neck about as broad as the tip of the pedicel ; 

 moderately compressed laterally but obscurely keeled, and when 

 dry, smooth or finely rugulose, with small but well-marked apical 

 pits. 



At present only known in one locality at Gilly Tresamble, near 

 Penryn, West Cornwall, where it was discovered on the 25th 

 September, 1907. 



3c. F. BoR^i, subsp. 



F. Borcei Jordan in Cat. Gren. (1849) et Pugillus, p. 4 (1852) ; 

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

 Haussknecht in Flora, p. 520 (1873) ; Eouy and Foucaud, 

 Fl. de Fr., i. p. 173 (1893). 



F. Bastardi (3 major Boreau in Duchartre Rev. Bot. ii. 

 p. 359 (1846). 



F. muralis Boreau Fl. du Centre de la Fr. ed. 2, p. 28 

 (1849) non Sonder. 



F. media Lois. var. typica in Hamm. Mon. p. 29 (1857). 



F. confusa Jord. ap. mult. auct. angl. 



Icones. — Hamm. Mon. tab. iii. fig. 3 ; Journ. Bot. tab. 436, 

 fig. 5. 



Exsiccata. — A. Jordan, d'Angers, cult. 1861, Herb. Mus. Brit ! 

 Billot, Fl. G. et G. nos. 2209 et bis ! F. Schultz, Herb. Norm, 

 no. 1007 ! E. S. Marshall, nos. 2413 and 2414 ! 



A ^;/a7^i of generally robust habit and considerably branched, 

 in fields either suberect and compact or more or less diffuse, on 

 hedge-banks and walls usually climbing by its cirrhose petioles, 

 sometimes to a height of 3 or 4 ft. Leaves irregularly 2-3 pin- 

 natisect, light green, with leaflets cut into oblong or broadly 

 cuneiform, acute or mucronate lobes. Racemes rather lax and not 

 many-floioered (flowers usually about twelve, rarely exceeding fif- 

 teen), nearly equalling the pteduncles. Bracts linear-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, somewhat variable in length, usually a little less than 

 the fruiting pedicels, but occasionally much shorter. Fruiting 

 pedicels of moderate thickness, normally straight ami erect-spread- 

 ing or subpatent, but in rampant plants sometimes flexuous or 



