THE GENUS FUMARIA IN BRITAIN 29 



(sub-var. longibmcteata) ! ! 50. Denbigh : Llangollen {Hb. Mus. 

 Brit.) ! 55. Leicester : near Swithland, W. Bell ! (locally known 

 as " Little Dill "). 58. Cheshire : Sale Moor {Hb. Toionsend) ! 

 59. S. Lanes : Burnley {Hb. Watson) ! 60. W. Lanes : Little 

 Eccleston {Hb. Mils. Brit.) ! 63. S. W. Yorks : Huddersfield and 

 Doncaster {Hb. Mus. Brit.) ! 69. Westmoreland and Lake Lanes : 

 Kosshead {Hb. Mus. Brit.) ! Hawkshead {Hb. Watson) ! 70. Citm- 

 berland : Keswick {Hb. Mus. Brit.) ! 72. Dumfries {Hb. Watson) ! 

 73. Kirkcudbright {Hb. Mus. Brit.) ! 74. Wigton {Hb. Dnice) ! 

 79. Selkirk {Hb. Druce) ! 80. Roxburgh : Ednam {Hb. Mus. Brit.) ! 

 Melrose {Hb. C. E. Palmer) ! 81. Benoick {Hb. Somerville) ! 

 Cockburnspath, F. C. Craioford, 1902 ! 82. Haddington : Aber- 

 ledy {Hb. Boswell) ! 83. Edinburgh {Hb. Watson) ! 85. Fife : 

 Balmuto, /. Bos2vell-Syme, 1874 {Hb. Mus. Brit.) ! 86. Stirling 

 {Hb. Mus. Brit.) ! 87. W. Perth : Clackmannan {Hb. Bickham) ! 

 100. Chjde Is. : Arran, E. S. Marshall, no. 2507 ! 108. W. Suther- 

 land : Tongue, E. S. Marshall, no. 2414! 111. Orkney : Mainland, 



E. S. Marshall, no. 2413 ! 



In addition to these vice-counties it is probable that the fol- 

 lowing have also been correctly recorded in Topographical Botany 

 and its Supplement as habitats for this plant, viz. : — 



29. Cambridge. 42. Brecon. 44. Carmarthen. 47. Montgomery . 

 52. Anglesea. 62. N. E. Yorks. 65. N. W. Yorks. 66. Durham. 

 67. S. Northumberland. 76. Benfreiu. 11. Lanark. 88. Mid 

 Perth. 89. E. Perth. 101. Cantire. 105. W. Boss. 



X FuMARIA PaINTERI. 



In the latter part of 1905 a parcel of fumitories from the 

 Shrewsbury Museum was sent me for examination by the late 

 Eev. W. H. Painter, among which was a distinct and peculiar 

 plant (labelled F. confusa Jord.) that he had himself collected 

 nine years earlier near Bishop's Castle, in the county of Salop. 

 This specimen bore a certain resemblance to F. Borcei, and es- 

 pecially to the variety ambigua, but differed entirely from all the 

 large-flowered species known in Britain by its truncate and per- 

 sistently apiculate fruits. As these fruits were not all perfect, I 

 concluded the plant must be a hybrid, its parentage being probably 



F. Borcei x officinalis. 



About two years afterwards Mr. Painter again sent me several 

 sheets of the same form which he had collected in 1907 at Iron 

 Bridge, in the eastern part of the same county. These specimens 

 were quite uniform and showed very few abortive fruits, and such 

 seeds as were exposed by the cracking of capsules in the press 

 appeared perfectly developed. Mr. Painter was unfortunately 

 unable to remember whether all of these specimens w^ere taken 

 from one very large plant, or whether the form was more or less 

 prevalent where he met with it ; but the occurrence of so distinct 

 a Fumaria — not barren, as hybrids of this genus usually are — 

 points to its not being a direct hybrid, but rather a form of hybrid 

 origin which may have become established over a wide area. It 



