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This variety is the usual form of the species. Its flowers vary considerably in size, and a forma grandiplorcL occurs in which 
they are very handsome and richly coloured. 
Local, from Cornwall to Orkney ; Ireland. Not known elsewhere. 
( b ) F. purpurea var. brevisepala Pugsley Fum. Brit. 13 (1912). 
Exsiccata : — Herb. Pugsley, 122. 
Bracts broad, nearly oblong, subacute or mucronate, rather shorter than the fruiting pedicels. 
Sepals broadly oval, subacute, more or less toothed or denticulate, 4 5 5 0 mm - l° n g- 
Owing to its smaller sepals, the general aspect of the flowers of this variety recalls F muralis subsp. boraei rather than 
F capreolata. 
Rare; Cornwall, Shropshire, Carnarvonshire; Ireland — co. Dublin. 
F. purpurea is endemic in the British Islands but is nowhere very abundant. Its headquarters in 
Great Britain are, as in the cases of the other large-flowered species, the Old Red Sandstone districts 
of Cornwall and Devonshire, the Welsh border, the Lake District, eastern and central Scotland, and 
Orkney; it is rare and local in eastern England; in Ireland, it occurs in co. Kerry, and from co. 
Wexford to co. Antrim and co. Tyrone. 
