28 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Gentiana. 



G. palustris angustifolia. Bauh. Pin. 188. Rail Syn. 274. 



G. quarta species. Clus. Hist. v. 1. 313./. 



G. minima. Camer. Epit. 418./. 



Pneumonanthe. Cord. Hist. 162. 2./. Ger. Em. 438./. Loh. Ic. 

 309./. -Barrel /c. 122./. 1. 



Kvayy;. Renealm. Spec. 69. t. 68. 



On moist turfy heaths. 



On several boggy heaths in Norfolk^ and especially in the northern 

 counties. 



Perennial. August, September. 



Root of many long, simple, tapering, tawny fibres. Stems simple, 

 square, ascending, leafy, from 4 to 10 inches high. Leaves 

 sessile, numerous, deep green, single-ribbed, an inch or more 

 in length, linear, or sometimes elliptic-lanceolate, more or less 

 obtuse. Fl. large and handsome, erect, terminal and axillary, 

 slightly stalked, rarely more than 1 or 2 on each stem. Tube 

 of the cahjx membranous between the oblong acute segments, 

 which are about equal to it in length. Cor. bell-shaped, or ra- 

 ther funnel-shaped, of a deep but vivid blue, with 5 prominent, 

 pale greenish plaits j the limb in 5 acute lobes, with 1 or 2 

 small, intermediate, unequal teeth. Anth. pale yellow, com- 

 bined, till separated by the swelling germen. Styles recurved. 

 Luxuriant plants, after a wet spring, bear, as Dr. Sutton ob- 

 served, 5, 6 or 7 fjioioers on each stem. In ihat case the lower 

 ones are sometimes opposite, as in the Siberian specimen from 

 which Linnaeus took his, rather negligent, specific character, 

 " coroLlis oppositis." 



*2. G. acaulis. Dwarf Gentian. 



Flower solitary, five-cleft, bell-shaped, about as long as the 

 quadrangular stem. 



G, acaulis. Linn. Sp. PI. 330. TFilld. v. I.] 340. SimsSs Kdnig. Ann. 



of Bot. V. 2. 196. Turn. ^ Dillw. Bot. Guide 504. Eiigl. Bot. 



V. 23. t. 1594. Comp. 43. Curt. Mag. t. 52. Jacq.Austr. t. 135. 

 G. angustifolia. Villars Dauph. v. 2. 526. 



G. alpina. Schleich. Cat. 56. Villars Dauph. v. 2. 526. 1. 10, bad. 

 G. n.642. Hall. Hist. V. 1.285. 



G. vel Gentianella major verna. Clus. Hist. v. 1. 314./. 

 Gentianella verna major. Ger. Em. 436./. Clus. Pann. 284. t. 285. 

 G. minima latifolia. Dalech. Hist. 828./. 

 G. helvetica. Lob. Ic. 310. f. 

 &vXcx,ynris. Renealm. Spec. 70. t. 68. 



On mountains, a very doubtful native. 

 Near Haverford West, South Wales. Mons. de St. Amans. 

 Perennial. June, July. 



Root fleshy, branching, crowned with many rose-like tufts, of ovate, 

 or elliptic-lanceolate, ribbed, acute leaves, varying much in size. 



