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broadly winged. Fruit subrotund-ovate, ogivale or subacute, with usually a mucronulus and nearly 
obsolete apical pits; about 2*25 — 27 mm. long and 2 mm. broad. 
This variety was the first form of the species to be described in this country. 
South-eastern England. 
Germany, France, Spain. 
( c ) F. parviflora var. symii 1 Pugsley Fum. Brit. 65 (1912); F. vaillanti Babington in Trans. Bot. Soc. 
Edinb. i, 36 (1844); in Eng. Bot. Suppl. no. 2877 (1844) partim, non Loiseleur. 
leones : — Babington in Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2877 (white^flowered branch only), as F. vaillanti. 
Camb. Brit. FI. iii. Plate /<?/. (a) Fertile branch, (b) Infructescence. (e) Flower (enlarged). ( d ) Upper 
petal seen from above (enlarged), (e) Lower petal seen in profile (enlarged). (/) Lower petal seen from above 
(enlarged). ( g ) Sepals (4 enlarged). ( h ) Fresh fruits (enlarged), (i) Dried fruits (enlarged). Cambridgeshire 
(A. H.). 
Exsiccata : — Herb. Pugsley, 269. 
Shoot robust, somewhat diffuse, very glaucous. Leaves with usually short, thick, and sometimes 
divaricate segments. Sepals oval or rhomboidal, dentate chiefly about the middle, about 1*5 mm. 
long and 075 broad. Corolla rarely much tinted with pink ; wings of the upper petal often narrow 
and sometimes deflexed. Fruit about 2 mm. long and equally broad, subrotund, subapiculate when 
young, at maturity obtuse with keel drawn into a very short, blunt, and notched beak. 
This var. symii was first correctly included with F. parviflora by Syme in Eng. Bot. ed. 3, t. 78, where the figure of 
Babington’s white-flowered “ F. vaillantp (E. B. S. t. 2877) is transferred to the E. B. (ed. 1) plate (t. 590) of this species. 
Very local ; Cambridgeshire (frequent), Haddingtonshire. Not known elsewhere. 
Arable land on strongly calcareous soils (especially where the chalk comes to the surface), 
chiefly south-east of a line connecting Dorset and Yorkshire, but also in Haddingtonshire and 
Edinburgh. Not certainly known in Ireland or the Channel Islands. 
Throughout Europe except northern Scandinavia and Russia, but rare or doubtful in central 
Europe; Asia Minor to India; northern Africa, the Canaries; adventitious in Mexico. 
F officinalis x parviflora (see page 187). 
1 After J. T. I. Boswell ( ne Syme, afterwards Boswell-Syme) (1822 — t888), author of English Botany , ed. 3 (1863 — 1872). 
