36 THE GEKUS PUMARIA IN BRITAIN 



1848, in Lond. Journ. Bot. p. 556, an account of a plant in 

 Borrer's herbarium, collected at Tintagel, which he referred to 

 F. agraria Lagasca, but which is showm by Borrer's specimen in 

 the Herb. Mus. Brit, to belong to this species. In the following 

 year Babington reported in Henfrey's Botanical Gazette, p. 61, 

 that he saw the same Fumitory in plenty on the Carnarvonshire 

 coast, where F. BastarcU is still abundant ; and in the third 

 edition of the Manual (1851) F. agraria Bab. (sic) w^as made a 

 synonym of F. capreolata L., var. y media, which was afterwards 

 identified, and apparently correctly, with F. confusa Jordan. 



In subsequent years the name F. confusa continued to find a 

 place in our text-books, but the essential characters of the plant 

 were lost sight of, w^ith the result that F. Borcei commonly came 

 to do duty for it in British botany until the publication of my 

 paper on these plants in Journ. Bot. 1902. 



The adoption of the name F, confusa Jord. for this plant set 

 aside at least three earlier names under which it was probably 

 included. Two of these, F. media Lois, and F. Petteri Keichb., 

 are of very doubtful application, and, although used by Hammar, 

 have both been abandoned by most subsequent authors. The third, 

 how^ever, F. Bastardi Boreau, appears tenable. It w^as published 

 in Duchartre's Bevue Botanique, ii. p. 359 (1846-7), the description 

 being essentially as follows, viz. : — 



" Pedicelles .... dresses ou etales, non recourbes ; sepales 

 ovales, .... denticules, depassant a peine la largeur de la corolle ; 

 fieurs greles, d'un blanc rose mele de verdatre, rouges au sommet ; 

 eperon allonge . . . ; capsule orbiculaire, rugueuse, tres-obtuse. . . . 



"^ major. Fieurs moitie plus grandes, d'un rose plus pro- 

 nonce, tres-fonce au sommet ; sepales plus fortement dentes ; 

 quelques pedicelles tendent a se recourber ; capsule du type ..." 



The description of the type is applicable, so far as it goes, to 

 the plant usually referred to F. confusa, and was made more exact 

 by Boreau in the second and third editions of the Flore du Centre 

 de la France (1849 and 1857), w^here F. confusa Jord. is quoted as 

 a synonym. 



Jordan's account of F. confusa was published in 1848 in his 

 Catalogue des graines recoltees au Jardin botanique de Dijon, and 

 is reprinted in Linncea, v. 23, p. 469. The salient features of his 

 description are : — " Sepahs .... (corolla) triplo brevioribus in 

 fructu juniore ssepe persistentibus . . . calcare elongato . . . fructi- 

 bus . . . obtusis laevibus vel demum paulisper rugulosis, basi fructus 

 latissima . . . pedicelloque conspicue latiore"; and in contrasting 

 his plant with F. Bastardi Bor. in Duchartre's Eev. Bot. he assumes 

 that that plant is what was afterwards known as F. Borcei, which 

 name he proposed for it the following year in his account of 

 F. vagans in the similar Grenoble Catalogue. In consequence of 

 this F. Bastardi Bor. in Duch. Eev. Bot. has been quoted as a 

 synonym of F. Borcei Jord., and F. Bastardi Bor. Fl. du Centre, 

 eds. 2 and 3, as the equivalent of F. confusa Jord. 



The principal difference between F. Bastardi and F. confusa, 

 according to the authors' original diagnoses, lies in the fruit, 



