PENTANDRIA— DIGYXIA. Gentlana. SI 



acute ; the lower ones stalked, and ratlier spatulate. Fl. erect, 

 barely an inch long, with a whitish cylindrical tube, twice as 

 long as the spreading, deeply 5 -cleft, acute, purplish-blue limb, 

 which has no intermediate segments, but the mouth of the tube 

 is crowned with a fine erect purplish fringe, rather shorter than 

 the limb, and rising much above the stamens. The calyx has a 

 turbinate, 5-angled, pale-green tube, about as long as its 5 

 purplish, lanceolate, acute, erect, smooth-edged segments, 

 which, though uniform, are often a little unequal in size, and 

 reach somevvhat beyond the middle of the tube of the corolla. 

 The limb of the latter has occasionally but 4, or even 3, seg- 

 ments, and is never fully expanded but in bright sunshine. The 

 stamens answer in number to the divisions of the cal. and cor. 

 being almost always 5, awl-shai)ed, with roundish separate 

 anthers. Styles very short. S:''gmas ovate. Mr. D. Turner ga- 

 thered, on Swafl'ham heath, some diseased specimens, with 

 dense dark-purple heads, of abortive flower-buds. 



P, found by the late Sir John Cullum, on a heath between Gran- 

 tham and Ancaster, June (>, 1774, seems, by his specimens, a 

 dwarf varietv, which had survived the winter, nor can it by any 

 specific mark be distinguished from the real Amarella ; which is 

 often seen much more dwarf in autumn, bearing but 1 or 2 

 flowers, as represented l>v Professor Hooker,/. 1. 



G. germanica, U'iUd. v. 1. "1346, which is G. critka of Ehrhart, 

 Herb. 1.52, and, according to Swiss specimens. Mailer's n. Gfjl, 

 (though the latter indicat'es many wrong synonyms, and takes it 

 for an English plant,) diflers from Amarella in hav'ms; flowers 

 nearly twice as large, situated about the upper part of the stem, 

 which is of a corymbose form of growth. It may be a good spe- 

 cies, but has not yet been observed in England. Columna's 

 Gentlanella purpurea minima, Ecphr. 223. t. 221, copied in 

 Barrel. Ir. t. 97./. 2. is perha])s different. lUa flowers are 4- 

 deft, and their calyx has no tube. Barrclier's figures, coi)ied 

 and often perverted, are scarcely to be adjusted to all the known 

 species, and perhaps several still remain undefined. 6'. germa- 

 nica appears to be a vernal as well as autumnal plant. 



f). G. campestris. Field Gentian. 



Corolla salver-shapod, four-cleft; bcanled in the throat. 

 Two outer se^rnicuts of the calyx ovate, very large. 



G. campestris. Linn. Sp. PI. 33 I. JniM. v. 1.13 IS. Fl. Br. 28S. 

 Fngl. hot. V. 4. /. 237. Hook. Scot. SO. Fl. Dan. t. 307. Eluh. 

 Herb. 13 1. 



G. n. r>:.0. Hall. I/tst. v. 1.2H0. 



(i. pratensis, (lore lanuginoso. Raii Syn. 27.") ; excluding the refe- 

 rence to John, and perhaps to Ca'^par. Bauhin. 



In elevated pastures, or upon green hills toward.s tlu' sea coast. 



