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latis monospermis. F. lobis longioribus et angustioribus sparsis. 

 Vaill. Bot. Par. 56, tab. 10, fig. 6." He adds that his plant, found 

 near Paris, is aUied to F. vctrviflora, but differs in its more erect 

 habit, its fiat instead of channelled leaf-segments, and its reddish 

 instead of white flowers. The figure of Vaillant which he quotes 

 shows a fumitory with leaves much less than usually decompound 

 and few-flowered racemes of small flowers. 



These salient features reappear in F. Vaillantii, as depicted in 

 Eeichenbach's Icones Fl. Germ. 4452, and a general agreement 

 respecting them continues through the works of nearly all the 

 Continental writers on these plants, from Handschuch to Nicotra, 

 except that the peculiar leaf-cutting has been sometimes over- 

 looked. 



A Swiss fumitory allied to F. Vaillantii was distinguished as 

 a new species, F. Schleicheri, in 1828 in Soyer-Willemet's Obser- 

 vations SUV quelques 2)lantes de France, p. 17, and of this the chief 

 characters are said to be " siliculis globosis mucronulatis, pedi- 

 cellis . . . bractea longioribus, racemis oblongis, floribus parvis 

 rubris ..." In Parlatore's Monograph, however, this name is 

 reduced to a synonym of F. Vaillantii, and there is no mention 

 of it in Hammar's work, where a fresh species, F. temciflora, is 

 established, which is shown by Haussknecht to be the same plant 

 as F. Schleicheri, as already mentioned in this paper in connection 

 with F. Wirtgeni. 



F. Schleicheri, which has a distribution extending from France 

 to the Altai region of Central Asia, is a species easily recognizable 

 by its long, slender pedicels with short bracts, its deeply coloured 

 flowers, and its small, rotund, persistently apiculate fruits. 



In 1852 another plant of this group was described as a new 

 species, F. Laggeri, in Jordan's Pugilliis, p. 7. This, too, is a 

 Swiss plant, found at Zermatt, and after a detailed diagnosis, 

 Jordan contrasts it with F. Vaillantii, from which it is stated to 

 differ by its shorter and broader leaf-segments, larger and more 

 ovate sepals, and broad, reflexed wings to the upper petal. No 

 reference is made by Jordan to F. Schleicheri. In Hammar's 

 Monograph F. Laggeri becomes " F. Vaillantii, /3 Laggeri. — 

 Eacemis longius pedunculatis, laxis, multi (congesti-) floris, sepalis 

 aliquanto longioribus, triangularibus, floribus roseis." 



A third Swiss plant related to F. Vaillantii appeared in 1861 

 in F. Ghavini Eeuter, in Cat. des Plantes vasculaires de Geneve, 

 p. 9. Eeuter's description is less satisfactory than that of 

 F. Laggeri by Jordan, but his plant is stated to be characterized 

 by short and broad leaf-segments, combined with few-flowered 

 racemes of erect, rosy flowers on more or less flexuous peduncles, 

 and fruits larger and more rugose than those of F. Laggeri. Of 

 this plant there are specimens at Kew and the British Museum, 

 collected by Chavin on Mont Saleve, which show that it is a form 

 closely allied to F. Vaillantii, but with more divided leaves, longer 

 racemes with slenderer and more erect pedicels, and lighter- 

 coloured flowers with broader but not more reflexed wings to the 

 upper petal. F. Ghavini is made a variety of F. Vaillantii in 



