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Subsection 5. LatisepalcB. 



Peduncles short. Pedicels more or less thickened towards the 

 tip, erect-spreading or recurved in fruit. Bracts sometimes ex- 

 ceeding and never much shorter than the fruiting pedicels. Sepals 

 large, often but little toothed, at least as broad as the corolla and 

 rarely less than one- third of its whole length. Fruit obtuse or 

 subacute, usually obscurely keeled and never broader than long ; 

 with an obscure fleshy neck, when fresh, and when dry, varying 

 from smooth to granular-rugose. 



The five species placed in this subsection by Haussknecht, 

 viz., F. micrantha Lag., F. rostellata Knaf, F. TMireti Boiss., 

 F. anatolica Boiss. and F. Pichermiana Boiss., form a somewhat 

 anomalous group, referable to the section Parvifiorce on account 

 of their finely cut foliage, but showing more or less floral afi&nities 

 with some of the Grandiflorm. Except in F. TJmreti the flowers 

 are quite small, but the relatively large bracts and sepals recall 

 the subsection Capreolatcd, and in none of the five species is the 

 spathulate dilation of the lower petal so well marked as in the 

 other ParviflorcB. In the case of F. Thureti, which in Hammar's 

 Monograph stands among the Capreolatcs, I can find no such 

 dilation whatever, and considering also its larger flowers, I am 

 disposed to think that it might be more correctly placed with 

 F. Beuteri and F. Munbyi, which it approaches in fruit, among 

 the Medics, or possibly still better with the Capreolatce. F. anato- 

 lica also, though much more nearly allied to F. rostellata and 

 clearly a member of the Latisepalce, bears a curious resemblance 

 to a miniature F. purpurea. 



8. FuMARiA MICRANTHA Lagasca. 



This plant, which in its normal form is one of the most distinct 

 species of the genus, is unique in its combination of finely cut 

 foliage and small flowers wdth remarkably large and broad sepals 

 and bracts. It was first clearly distinguished by the Spanish 

 botanist Lagasca, who, in Elenchus Plant, in Hort. Matrit. p. 21 

 (1816), diagnosed it as follows, viz. : " Calycibus cordato-rotun- 

 datis coroUae tubo latioribus ; foliis pinnato-decompositis linearibus 

 angustissimis. Flores dense spicati, erecti." And it duly figures 

 as one of the ten known species in Parlatore's Monograph, where 

 it is well described, and appears again in the second edition of 

 Koch's Synopsis. 



Prior to the publication of these last two works it was described 

 by Babington in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. i. p. 34, as a new species, 

 which he named F. calycina from its remarkable calyx. The 

 description was drawn up from Edinburgh specimens that had 

 already been referred to F. micrantha by Arnott in Eeport Bot. 

 Soc. Edin. p. 104 (1840), an identification with which Babington 

 did not agree till a later date. 



In Grenier & Godron's Fl. de France F. micrantha Lag. was 

 reduced to a synonym of F. densiflora DC, which had been 

 published in 1813 ; and in recent works a difference of opinion 



