PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Rhammis 



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C. From 1 to 4 inches high ; stem with 3 or 4 pairs of puJchd'Ia* 



leaves^ not branched. Flowers 1^ sometimes 2,, ter- 

 minating. Leaves egg- spear- shaped, 3 or 5 fibred, 



jPYoraZ-leaves strap-shaped. 



E. hot. 4:5S-S<wartz. no<v. act. Stockh. 17 S3. /. 33. /. 3. 



The latter figure is cited from Gmelin in his edit, of the 

 Syst. Natura, and on the authority of Mr. Afzelius. 



Specimens sent by Mr. Giddy in 1790*. The dwarf plants 

 first found by Mr. Watt having no stem, and several flowers at 

 the crown of the root are exactly the same with the fig. in E. 

 bot. 4.>8. — Dr. Smith cites Vaill. par. vi. 1. but that fig. is 

 much larger than either the Cornish or the Gorlestone plants. 



Sir Tho. Frankland observes the habit of the Ch. pulchella 

 to be very different from that of the Ch. Centaurtum : the leaves 

 also seem different at their insertion, those of Ch. centaurium 

 uniting; in Ch. pulchella they appear distinct. 



Calyx segments nearly as long as the tube of the blossom, 



bat not adhering to it^ as in the preceding species. 



Eloss. funnel -shaped : border 5-cleft, segments spear- 

 shaped ; tube not adhering to the germen. 



St AM. fixed near the top of the tube. Anthers twisted 



spirally when dry, but when damped resuming their 

 original shape. 



Pist. Germen oblong, nearly filline: the tube of the bios- 



soin. 



Style half the length of the filaments. Sum- 



mits 2, horse-shoe- shaped, velvety. 

 Caps, partitioned into 2 cells. 

 Seed 



Gentiana pulchella. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 

 Linn. 



s numerous. 



G. Centaurium. & 



. Sept 



Aug 



[Downs at Port Owen, near the sea, Cornwall. Mr. Watt. 

 Gorlestone, Norfolk, near the sea. Mr. Turner.] E. bot. Sept. 



RHA'MNUS. Calyx tubular; scales protecting 



R 



Moss, none : fruit a drup 



on different plants : leaves egg-shaped : stem upright. 



Ft. Ross. i. 6l-FI. dan. 85Q-B/aci<w. Wz-Matth. 158- 



IVoodv. 114-ZW. 756-Ger. em. 1337- 2-Park. 243. 1 at 

 ■ the bottom.-Cht. i. Ill-Lob. ohi, 5<J9> l-Ger. em, UOJ. 



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l~Park. 243, 1. 





