66 THE GENUS FUMARIA IN BRITAIN 



recorded for Cape Clear Island by Haussknecht, is not considered 

 by Mr. Praeger to be established in Ireland. 



In Great Britain the species is almost exclusively a plant of 

 arable land, and has been recorded in TopograiMcal Botany and 

 its Supplement for twenty-four vice-counties, mainly in the chalk 

 districts of the south-east of England, but with a few locahties 

 outside this area, mostly in the south-east of Scotland. Specimens 

 from fifteen of these vice-counties have lately passed through my 

 hands, and I think the remaining records may be accepted as 

 correct. In addition, the plant has been discovered in 9. Dorset ; 

 and 53. S. Lines, must be further added to the list, Streat- 

 field's specimen in Herb. Mus. Brit., labelled F. Vaillantii, being 

 really F. ixtrviflora. The vice-comital total is thus increased to 

 twenty-six. 



So far as my experience goes, the commonest form of the 

 species in Great Britain is the variety acuminata, while the 

 variety Symei is much rarer and seems especially characteristic 

 of the Gogmagog Hills of Cambridge. 



A list of localities noted for these different forms is appended: — 



9. Dorset : Badbury Eings, B. P. Murray, 1904 {Hb. Mus. 

 Brit., type) ! 14. E. Sussex : Stanmer Park, T. Hilton {Hb. Mus. 

 Brit., type) ! Ovingdean, T. Hilton (v. acuminata) ! 15. E. Kent : 

 Woldham, Eochester, /. Bayer, 1792 {Hb. Mus. Brit., v. acumi- 

 nata) ! Kent, /. Bayer {Hb. Mus. Brit., type) ! 16. W. Kent : 

 Eynesford, E. S. Marshall {Hb. Mus. Brit., v. acuminata) ! 

 Luddesdown, Bidley {Hb. Mus. Brit., v. acuminata) ! 17. Surrey : 

 Mickleham (v. acuminata) !! Merrow Downs, E. Armitage 

 (v. acuminata) ! Hog's Back, H. G. Watson {Hb. C. Bailey, 

 V. acuminata) ! 19. N. Essex : Saffron Walden, /. Groves 

 {Hb. C. Bailey, type) ! 20. Herts : Ashweil, E. Crespigny {Hb. 

 C. Bailey, v. acuminata) ! 22. Berks : Streatley, G. G. Druce 

 {Hb. Mus. Brit., v. acuminata) ! Lowbury Hill, G. G. Druce 

 (v. acuminata) ! 24. Bucks : Princes Eisboro', G. G. Druce {Hb. 

 Mus. Brit., type) ! Pitstone Hill, G. E. Salmon {Hb. Mus. Brit., 

 V. acuminata) ! 29. Gambridge : Kennet {Hb. Mus. Brit., type) ! 

 Gogmagog Hills (v. Symei) !! Newmarket, G. G. Druce {Hb. Mus. 

 Brit., V. Symei) ! Snailwell {Hb. Bojfey, type) ! 30. Bedford : 

 Hitchin, T, B. Blow {Hb. Mus. Brit., v. acuminata) ! 62. N.E. 

 Yorks : Falsgrave {Hb. Mus. Brit., type) ! Malton, /. G. Baker 

 {Hb. G. Bailey, type) ! 82. Haddington : Dreny, B. McKay {Hb. 

 G. Bailey, v. Symei) ! 83. Edinburgh : Leith {Hb. Mus. Brit., 

 type) ! 



10. FuMARiA Vaillantii Loiseleur. 



Although much confused at different times in this country 

 with the preceding species, F. Vaillantii was originally described 

 with considerable lucidity and seems to have been generally under- 

 stood on the Continent. Loiseleur's description w^as first printed 

 in 1809 in Desvaux's Journal de Botanique, ii. p. 358, and his 

 diagnosis runs : — " F. caule ramoso erectiusculo, foliis bipinnatis, 

 pinnis 2-5 laciniatis, laciniis Hnearibus planis, racemis brevibus 

 oppositifoliis, pericarpiis globosis subtuiierculatis vix mucronu- 



