FUMARIA 
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Fruiting-pedicels not normally arcuate-recurved, but variable in direction and generally straight 
and divaricate. 
This variety, the ordinary British form of the species, is a less beautiful plant than the var. pallidiflora owing to the 
duller colouring of the flowers. The figure in Syme Eng. Bot. i, t. 71 (as F. [ capreolata subsp.] pallidiflora ) is very unsatis- 
factory. 
Throughout the British Islands. Not known elsewhere. The subvar. divaricata is known only from Penzance, 
Cornwall. 
(c) F. capreolata var. devoniensis Pugsley Fnm. Brit. 10 (1912). 
leones : — Camb. Brit. FI. iii. Plate 181. ( a ) Fertile shoot. ( b ) Inflorescence. ( c ) Flower (enlarged). 
(d) Lower petals in profile (enlarged), (e) Lower petal from above (enlarged). (/) Sepals (enlarged), (g) Fresh 
fruit (enlarged). (Ji) Dried fruits (enlarged). Devonshire (H. W. P.). 
Exsiccata : — Herb. Pugsley, 73. 
Bracts about as long as the fruiting pedicels which are irregularly recurved. Flowers as in var. 
babingtoni, but more suffused with pink. Fruit subrotund, rounded-obtuse but scarcely truncate 
and rather narrowed below, little compressed laterally, and when dry obscurely rugulose ; of moderate 
size, about 2^5 mm. long and broad. 
Rare ; at present only known from the north of Devonshire. 
Rather local ; cultivated ground, hedgebanks, and old walls, chiefly in the Old Red Sandstone 
districts; from the Channel Isles and Cornwall, northwards to Orkney; rare in southern and eastern 
England where it may have been introduced; local in Ireland. 
Southern Sweden (rare), Denmark (rare), Germany (rare), and Europe generally south and west 
of the Rhine ; northern Africa (Morocco and Algeria) ; Asia Minor (inch Syria) ; adventitious in 
North America (Florida) and in South America. 
3. FUMARIA PURPUREA. Plate 182 
Fumaria purpurea Pugsley in Journ. Bot. xl, 135 et 179 (1902); Fum. Brit. 12 (1912); F. boraei 
Babington in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv, 163 (i860) non Jordan ; F. capreolata subsp. boraei Syme Eng. Bot. i, 106 (1863). 
Annual. Stem normally less rampant and more branched than in F. capreolata. Leaves light 
green ; segments rather narrower than in F. capreolata. Racemes rather lax, with many (often 20 — 24) 
flowers, nearly equalling the peduncles. Fruiting pedicels never much longer than the bracts, patent- 
recurved or divaricate. Flowers sometimes much smaller in the later racemes ; May to October. 
Sepals oblong or oval, peltate, shortly acute or rounded-obtuse, with a broad median band or suffusion 
of green, 4^5 — 6'5 mm. long, 2 — 3 mm. broad. Corolla pale purplish-pink or purple, with the tip of 
the inner petals and the wings of the upper one dark purple, 10 — 13 mm. long; upper petal rather 
broad, with wings scarcely reaching the apex but exceeding the keel, acute ; lower petal with erect 
and narrow margins. Fruit nearly square in profile, truncate or occasionally subemarginate, laterally 
compressed but obscurely keeled ; when fresh, with a distinct neck much narrower than the dilated 
tip of the pedicel ; when dry, faintly rugulose with rather small and shallow though distinct apical 
pits; of moderate size, about 2^5 mm. long and as broad or a little broader. 
(a) F. purpurea var. longisepala Pugsley in Camb. Brit. FI. iii, 175; F. purpurea Pugsley Fum. Brit. 12 
(1912) excl. var. brevisepala. 
Camb. Brit. FI. iii. Plate 182. (a) Flowering branch. Cornwall (C. C. V.). ( b ) Flowering branch, (c) In- 
fructescence. (d) Flowers (enlarged). ( e ) Lower petal in profile (enlarged), (f) Sepals (four enlarged). ( g ) Fresh 
fruits (enlarged). ( h ) Dried fruits (enlarged). Devonshire (H. W. P.). 
Exsiccata : — Herb. Pugsley, 94, 101, 108. 
Bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, equalling the fruiting pedicels, except the lowest, which 
are generally rather longer and occasionally much so and becoming foliaceous. Sepals oblong, 
usually sparingly toothed about the base and subentire towards the apex, often rounded-obtuse, 
5‘0 — 6 ’5 mm. long. 
The plate in Syme Eng. Bot. t. 72 [bis] as F. \capreolata subsp.] boraei is a reproduction of Jordan’s F. boraei , as shown 
in Smith Eng. Bot. t. 943, with the addition of dissections apparently of F. purpurea var. longisepala. 
There is an example of this variety in herb. Dillenius at Oxford, and a still earlier specimen (ca. 1700) in herb. Dubois 
also at Oxford. The latter is annotated F. major scandens floribus albis riche saturate purpureo , an interesting allusion 
to the characteristic coloration of the corolla. 
