PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Erythrsea. 323 



from the last species, as well as from E. Centaurium, being some- 

 times almost orbicular, with 7 ribs in their lower part ; more 

 generally broadly elliptical, and obtuse, with 5 ribs. The calyx 

 is as long as the tube, or longer ; its segments broad and mem- 

 branous below ; tapering at the upper part. Anth. spiral when 

 old. Style erect, cloven, with 2 large stigmas. 

 The broad many-ribbed leaves, and small tufted flowers, sufficiently 

 distinguish this species at first sight, I have not seen living- 

 specimens. 



4. E. pulchella. Dwarf Branched Centaury. 



Stem forked, variously branched, or simple, winged. Flowers 

 solitary, stalked. Calyx above half as long as the tube. 

 Segments of the corolla lanceolate. Leaves ovate, 



E. pulchella. Hook. Scot. 79. 



Chironia pulchella. Willd. Sp. PL v. 1. 1067. With. 255. FL 

 Br. 258. Engl. Bot. v. 7. t 458. 



Ch. ramosissima. Ehrh. Herb. 124. 



Gentiana pulchella. Swartz in Stockholm Trans, for 1783. 85. 

 t. 3. f. 8 9. 



G. Centaurium /3. Linn. Sp. Pl.333. Willd.v. 1. 1068. With. 255. 



Centaurium minus palustre ramosissimum, flore purpureo. Vaill. 

 Paris. 32. t.6.f. 1. 



In sandy ground, chiefly near the sea. 



Near Gorlestone, Suffolk. Mr. Stone. On the downs at Port 

 Owen, on the north coast of Cornwall. Mr. Watt. Braunton 

 Burrows, Devonshire. Bishop of Carlisle. Hinton moor, Cam- 

 bridgeshire. Rev. Mr. Relhan. On the Denes at Lowestoft, 

 Suffolk. 



Annual. August, September. 



Root tapering. Stem solitary, erect, from 1 to 2 or 3 inches high, 

 sometimes more, varying extremely in luxuriance, being na- 

 turally much branched in a forked corymbose manner -, but in a 

 starved state, as Dr. Swartz met with it, quite simple and single- 

 flowered ; in every form it is leafy, and square, with mem- 

 branous, more or less dilated, angles. Leaves ovate, bluntish, 

 with 3 or 5 slender ribs ; the upper ones more lanceolate j 

 lowest obovate, or round. Fl. stalked, from each fork, as well 

 as from each termination, of the stem, erect, slender. Cal. above 

 half as long as the tube even in an advanced state ; at an early 

 period full as long, with slender awl-shaped segments, combined 

 by a membranous base. Cor. with a pale slender tube ; the limb 

 of a full pink, as delicate and narrow as in the last, much less 

 ovate than in the two former species. The anthers are less spiral 

 than in any of them, making scarcely one turn. Style a little 

 oblique, with large spreading stigmas. Caps, long, tumid, in- 

 vested with the corolla, as in other species. 



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