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. 4 1 8. f. 



Pneumonanthe. Cord. Hist. 1G2. 2./. Ger. Em. 438./. Loh. Ic. 



309./. Barrel Ic. 122. f. 1. 

 KfavTj. 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. Cur. bell-shaped, or ra- 

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

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

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

 bined, till se])arated by the swelling germen. Sftjles recurved. 

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

 served, 5, 6 or 7, flowers on each stem. In that case the lower 

 ones are sometimes opposite, as in the Siberian specimen from 

 which Linnaeus took his, rather negligent, specific character, 

 *^ coroUis oppositis." 



* 2. G. acaulis. Dwarf Gentian. 



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

 quadrangular stem. 



G. acauhs. Linn. Sp. PL 330. Willd. v. 1. 1340. Sims 8^ Konig, 

 jinn, of Bot. V. 2. 196. Turn. S^ Dillw. Bot. Guide 504. EngL 

 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. T'illars Dauph. v. 2. 526. t. 1 0, bad. 



G. n. 6^2. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 285. 



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



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



G. minima latifolia. Dalecli. Hist. 828. f. 



G. helvetica. Lob. Ic.3\0.f. 



GiXccKinS' Renealm. Spec. 70. t. 68. 



On mountains, a very doubtful native. 



Near Haverford West, South \A^ales. Mons. de St. Amans. 



Perennial. June, July. 



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



