74 THE GENUS FUMAEIA IN BRITAIN 



APPENDIX. 



FuMAEiA MUEALis Soncler (sensu stricto). — In recently examin- 

 ing the parcel of F. parviflora from the Orient at Kew, I remarked 

 three specimens of F. muralis which throw a most interesting 

 light on its geographical distribution. One of these was collected 

 in Mauritius, at an altitude of 1100 ft. Another — a good and 

 characteristic example — is labelled " F. officiiiaUs. Java, prope 

 Ngodisari, alt. 2000 m. Legit S. H. Koorders, 30. x. 1899. 

 Herb. Kds. 37689 /S," and appears under the same name in the 

 recent Flora of Java. A third specimen is labelled " 1987, New 

 Zealand. Colenso. ' This I believe to be an emigrant.'" 



F. muralis thus occurs at Hamburg, Bordeaux, Portugal, 

 Madeira and other Atlantic islands. Ascension, St. Helena, South 

 Africa, Mauritius, Java, and New Zealand ; and the explanation 

 of such a distribution, I think, can only be that the plant was 

 carried from its Atlantic headquarters northwards into Europe 

 and southwards round Africa to the East Indies through the 

 traffic of the old Dutch East India Company in the seventeenth 

 and eighteenth centuries. It will be remembered, not only that 

 Cape Colony was formerly Dutch, but that Mauritius was once 

 held by Holland, and the Dutch were the first to visit New 

 Zealand. 



FuMARiA PARADOXA Pugsley. — Since describing this plant 

 three more specimens have come to my notice in the very fine 

 foreign herbarium of Mr. C. Bailey. One of these (C. Magnier, 

 Plant. Gall. Septent. et Belg. no. 253) was collected as F. Borcei 

 in 1880 by E. Tardieu at Gatteville, Manche. Mr. Bailey's sheet 

 shows two pieces of F. paradoxa associated with one of F. Borcei. 

 The second specimen, an excellent one (C. Magnier, Fl. Select. 

 Exsicc. no. 1075), also comes from the North of France, having 

 been collected by E. Martin in 1884 at Eomorantin, Loir-et-Cher. 

 This plant was recognized as closely allied to F. muralis and 

 F. Borcei, and was submitted to Clavaud, who thought it a 

 distinct species and dedicated it to Martin, but without ever 

 publishing a description. Mr. Bailey's remaining specimen is 

 from a fresh Spanish locality : — '* F. Sennen, Plantes d'Espagne, 

 no. 14. F, muralis Sond. var. Pcmi Sennen, var. nova — Castille. 

 Ameyugo, Ayuelas, Pancorbo, haies. 1906, Mai et Juin. Fres. 

 Sennen et Elias." I cannot trace that this varietal name has 

 ever been validly published. 



