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F.  Borcei  Jord.,  var.  muraliformis  Clavaud  ?  Weed 
in  an  old  garden,  Penyard,  Ross,  Herefordsh.,  v.e.  36, 
Sept.  29,  1910.  The  variability  in  the  curve  of  the 
pedicels  in  this  plant  is  remarkable. — Augustin  Ley.  This 
appears  right,  but  the  sheet  sent  shows  a  weak,  shade- 
grown  plant,  not  at  all  normal,  and  with  fruits  peculiarly 
short  and  truncate  for  any  form  of  F.  Borcei.  It  almost 
looks  like  a  starved  F.  purpurea ,  but  the  pedicels  are  too 
slender,  the  neck  of  the  fruit  too  obscure,  and  the  bracts 
too  short  for  any  form  of  that  species  in  a  state  of 
starvation.  — H.W.P. 
F.  major  Badarro.  The  plant  from  Gilly  Tresamble, 
Perran-ar-worthal,  which  I  distributed  in  1904  (See 
Report,  1904-5,  p.  7)  has  been  identified  by  Professors 
Schinz,  Ascherson,  and  Grabner,  as  well  as  by  Dr.  Fedde 
of  Berlin,  who  is  working  out  the  genus  Fumaria  for 
Engler’s  “  Pflanzenreich,”  as  F.  major  Badarro.  Every 
year  since  its  discovery,  on  Oct.  8,  1904,  I  have  seen 
thousands  of  plants  of  it  among  potato,  turnip,  mangel 
and  cabbage  crops  in  the  parishes  of  Perran-ar-worthal  and 
Gwennap.  Rouy  et  Foucaud  (“  Flore  de  France,”  vol.  1, 
p.  176)  place  this  plant  with  F.  spectabilis  Bischoff,  under 
F.  agraria  Lag.,  and  they  describe  it  as  follows: — 
“Bractees  lanceolees,  egalant  ou  depassant  les  pedicelles; 
sepales  ovales,  courts,  egalant  environ  le  quart  de  la 
longueur  de  la  corolle,  et  a  peine  plus  etroits  qu’elle, 
profondement  dentes,  a  nervure  mediane,  peu  ou  point 
carenee;  silicule  globuleuse  a  mucron  cylihdrace,  mince; 
feuilles  courtes,  a  lobes  courts,  peu  ecartes.”  None  of  the 
hundreds  of  Cornish  specimens  which  I  have  examined 
have  had  the  bracts  more  than  one-half  as  long  as  the 
fruiting  pedicel,  and  the  small  oval  sepals  are  only  rarely 
slightly  dentate  at  the  base.  From  all  other  species  of 
Fumaria  occurring  in  Britain  F.  major  may  be  distin¬ 
guished  by  its  long,  ultimately  lax  raceme  of  20 — 25  large 
rosy-pink  flowers,  which  often  are  much  recurved.  On 
the  Continent  it  is  said  to  flower  from  April  to  June;  in 
Cornwall  its  flowering  season  extends  from  the  early  part 
of  September  to  late  October. — F.  Hamilton  Davey. 
Arabis  scabra  All.  Rocks  near  Bristol,  W.  Glos., 
v.c.  34,  April  26,  1910.  The  present  condition  of  this 
rarity  is  very  satisfactory.  As  it  seeds  freely  early  in  the 
