70 THE GENUS FUMAEIA IN BEITAIN 



Icon. — Eeiclib. Icon. Fl. Germ. 4452 ; Hamm. Hon. tab. i. 

 fig. 3 (with abnormally broad sepals) ; Clavaud, Fl. de la Gironde, 

 pi. 4, fig. 3. 



Exsiccata. — F. Schultz, Herb. Norm. Cent. 5, no. 414! Paulin, 

 Fl. Exsicc. Carniolica, no. 2871 ! Salmon & Wallis, Pitstone Hill, 

 Bucks, 1904, Herb. Mus. Brit. ! 



A plant of rather dwarf and normally slender habit, sometimes 

 very much branched with numerous, short, interlacing stems, 

 usually suherect and rarely, if ever, climbing. Leaves irregularly 

 %iminatisect, glaucous, with long petiolules and relatively few and 

 distant leaflets cut into flat, acute, linear -ohloncj or lanceolate 

 lobes somewhat narrower, on an average, than those of F. offici- 

 nalis. Bacemes rather lax, few- (generally 6-12) flotvered, exceeding 

 the short i)eduncles. Bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, about 

 three-fourths as long as the fruiting i^edicels, w^hich are usually 

 short, straight, dilated above, and suberect or erect-spreading. 

 Sepals minute, not exceeding 1 onm. long and ^— | mm. broad, 

 lanceolate, acuminate, more or less laciniate- serrate, sometimes 

 persistent on the young fruit. Corolla 5-6 mm. long, pink in 

 colour, with the tip of the inner petals blackish red and the icings 

 of the upper petal often obscurely tinted with the same dark hue. 

 Upper petal dorsally compressed, with thick, green keel and broad, 

 spreading wings almost reaching its apex and much developed 

 above, forming an emarginate but apiculate outline. Loicer petal 

 zvith spreading margins narrow below but abruptly dilated towards 

 the apex and becoming truncate-spathulate. Fruits rather small, 

 about 2 mm. long and equally broad, subrotund, laterally com- 

 pressed but obscurely keeled, and almost equally narrowed above 

 and below to a rounded-obtuse apex and a very obscure neck about 

 as broad as the tip of the pedicel ; when dry, granular-rugose, 

 with small and shallow apical pits. 

 /5 Chavini Eouy & Foucaud, Fl. de Fr. i. p. 181 (1893). 



F. Chavini Eeuter in Cat. Plant. Geneve, p. 10 (1861). 



F. Vaillantii Eng. Bot. Suppl. 2877, ex parte. 



F. Vaillantii /3 Laggeri Haussk. in Flora, p. 442 (1873), nee 

 Hammar nee F. Laggeri Jord. 



Icon. — Eng. Bot. Suppl. 2877 (red-flowered form). 



Exsiccata. — Billot, Fl. Exsicc. Cont. no. 3508 (poorly repre- 

 sented in Herb. Mus. Brit.) ! C. C. Babington, Gogmagog Hills, 

 Herb. Mus. Brit, (as F. Vaillantii) ! 



More robust and erect than the type, but less branched, with 

 glaucous or green, more decompound (irregularly 2-3 pinnatisect) 

 leaves, and more numerous and less distant leaflets cut into flat, 

 linear-oblong or linear lobes. Bacemes generally 10-16-flowered, 

 denser than in the type, with the peclicels rather longer and 

 slenderer, often flexuous, nes^er much spreading, and sometimes 

 almost erect and parallel with the rachis. Flowers more brightly 

 coloured than in the type, and fruit slightly larger and more dis- 

 tinctly granular-rugose. 



Distribution. — Like F. parviflora, this species enjoys a very 

 wide distribution, occurring throughout Europe, except the extreme 



