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or globular tube of the corolla; oblong, wider above. 

 Corolla 5-cleft. Stamens 5. The partition of the Capsule 

 adheres to the lower portion (after bursting.) Only one 

 bractea visible at the base of each head of flowers ; it is 

 ovate, and of a red colour. Stem swelled and flattened 

 in various parts, where tubercles are formed, which 

 penetrate to a considerable depth the leaves of other 

 plants ; these tubercles have a concave surface, with a 

 papillose margin : the radicle issuing from the centre. 



9. Gentiana Amarella. — Anglesea, September 15, 1828. 

 Gen. Char. Seeds not inserted into the inflexed margin of 



the valves, but near the margins, in four lines. Seeds 

 quite sphaerical, and shining, chiefly consisting of albu- 

 men. Embryo^ very small, lateral. The fringe near the 

 base of the segments of the corolla is a beautiful object 

 under the lens, the rays tapering and covered with pro- 

 minent dots. 



10. Gentiana campestris. — Scotland, July 24, 1827. — An- 

 thers on the back of the compressed filaments, which are 

 channelled along the inner side. Stem square, as also the 

 flower-stalks. Stem-leaves ovato-oblong, tapering above, 

 minutely fringed, like the segments of the calyx; radical 

 leaves spathulate. 



11. Torilis Anthriscus. — September 11, 1826. — The "in- 

 curved bristles " of the fruit are tapering and acute, placed 

 in rows, between which are three dark-green ribs (rather 

 prominent.) Calyx-segments smooth, nearly equal. 



12. Torilis infesta. — Ormeshead, July 10, 1826. — General 

 bracteas solitary. Fruit with rough spreading hooked bristles 

 in rows, between which are three lines of close placed ones; 

 the hooked extremities of the spreading bristles point up- 

 wards. Styles bristly at the base, so that, at first, the bristles 

 envelope the globose stigmas : styles also green, not red, 

 reflexed, and subsequently elongated. Calyx-segments un- 

 equal, the two inner ones not distinct, outer ones fringed. 

 Stamens short. Anthers white. 



13. Sium latifolium. — Anglesea, August 18, 1826. — Leaf- 



