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cold. The earliest known specimen of F occidetitalis was collected at Newlyn, Cornwall, in 1881 ; but there is evidence that 
long previously it was locally known as an unusually beautiful weed of cultivation. It is, in fact, the finest of the British 
fumitories. 
Endemic in western Cornwall where it extends, never growing far inland, from the neighbour- 
hood of Padstow round the Land’s End nearly to the Lizard. 
Series ii. Capreola tae 
Capreolatae Haussknecht in Flora lvi, 539 (1873); Hammar Monogr. 24 (1857) as a “section”; Pugsley 
Fumit. Brit. 5 (1912) as a subsection. 
For characters, see page 172. 
British species of Capreolatae 
2. F. capreolata (see below). Racemes dense, shorter than the peduncles. Fruiting pedicels 
normally arcuate-recurved. Corolla white ; upper petal narrow, with wings not covering the keel. 
Fruit usually smooth, with small but well-marked apical pits. 
3. F. purpurea (p. 175). Racemes not dense, about as long as the peduncles. Fruiting pedicels 
patent-recurved or divaricate. Corolla purplish ; upper petal rather broad, with wings exceeding the 
keel. Fruit faintly rugulose, with broader and shallower pits than in F. capreolata. 
2. FUMARIA CAPREOLATA. Ramping Fumitory. Plate 181 
Fumaria capreolata L. Sp. PI. 701 (1753); Hammar Monogr. 24 (1857); Rouy et Foucaud FI. France 
i, 17 1 (1893); Pugsley Fum. Brit. 6 (1912). 
Annual. Stem sparingly branched, diffuse or suberect and climbing to a height of 1 — 2 m., inter- 
nodes long. Leaves light green or rarely glaucescent ; lobes of the leaflets broad, oblong or cuneiform, 
acute or mucronate. Racemes dense, with up to 20 flowers, mostly shorter than the peduncles. Bracts 
linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Fruiting pedicels never much longer than the bracts, strongly arcuate- 
recurved but occasionally (generally in shade) straight and divaricate. Flowers from May to September. 
Sepals ovate-oblong or oval, peltate, more or less toothed about the base but otherwise subentire, acute, 
4 — 6 mm. long, 2^5 — 3^0 mm. broad. Corolla creamy-white, with the tip of the inner petals and 
the wings of the upper one blackish-red, and frequently a reddish dorsal suffusion, often rather 
persistent and falling with the fruit, 10 — 13 mm. long; upper petal narrow, acute, its wings not 
reaching the apex and not covering the keel ; lower petal with erect and narrow margins. Fruit 
small or of moderate size, obscurely keeled, very obtuse or truncate ; when fresh, with a distinct 
neck much narrower than the dilated tip of the pedicel ; when dry, smooth or nearly so, with very 
small but well-marked apical pits. 
Linnaeus {loc. cit.) cites F. major scandens flore pallidiore (Ray Syn. ed. 3, 204 (1724)) for this species, but it is doubtful 
whether Ray actually meant F. capreolata by this, his “greater ramping fumitory.” A specimen so named in the contemporary 
herb. Buddie (Herb. Sloane xi, 48, in Herb. Mus. Brit.) and one in the herb. Dubois at Oxford are merely rampant forms of 
F. officinalis. In the latter collection, F. capreolata var. babingtoni is represented, and is given another ms. pre-Linnaean name. 
{a) F. capreolata var. pallidiflora Crepin Ft. Belg. ed. 4, 53 (1882); F. pallidiflora Jordan in Schultz Arch. 
305 (1854) non Babington ; F. capreolata Hammar Mon. 24 (1857) excl. vars. : Pugsley Fum. Brit. 9 (1912) excl. vars 
leones: — Savi Mat. Med. t. 1, fig. 1, as F. capreolata ; FI. Dan. t. 2359, as F. capreolata (this is a pale- 
flowered shade form); Sturm Deutschl. FI. i, 62, t. 13, as F. capreolata. 
Exsiccata : — Bourgeau ( Pyr.-Esp .), 391, as F. capreolata ; Heldreich ( Hb . Graec.), 1003, as F. capreolata ; 
Reverchon (PI. Corse ), 53, as F. capreolata\ FI. Austr.-Hung., 2899, as F. capreolata. 
Bracts usually a little shorter than the fruiting pedicels. Sepals normally broadly oval, less than 
half as long as the corolla. Corolla often dorsally marked with rosy red ; upper petal with wings 
scarcely equalling the abruptly acute keel. Fruit subrotund, little compressed laterally, very obtuse 
but not truncate, smooth when dry, small, 2 mm. long and a little less in breadth. 
The allied F. capreolata var. speciosa Hammar Monogr. 25 (1857) ( = F. speciosa Jordan Cat. Grenoble 15 (1849)) ^ as been 
reported for Guernsey; but its existence there needs confirmation. It is distinguished chiefly by its corolla readily turning to 
bright crimson. 
Channel Isles (Guernsey only). 
On the continent of Europe, this is the typical form of the species. 
