276 PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Gcntkna. 



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As the flowers are not always opposite, not even in large and 

 cultivated specimens, that circumstance is omitted in the Sp. 

 char* because, as Dr. Smith has well observed, it can only tend 



to mislead. 



Blossoms blue. 



Calathian Violet. Marsh Gentian. Moist pastures. [Strat- 



ton Heath, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. Newton Heath, near Man- 

 chester. Mr. Caley.— Rollesby Heath, Hopton Heath, near 

 Yarmouth. Mr. Wigg. — In a marsh on a heath near Holmes 

 Chapel, Chesh. Mr. Hunter.— Walney Isle. Mr. Jackson.] 



P. Aug, 



fer'na. G. Blossom 5 -cleft, funnel-shaped, tooth -serrated, longer 



than the stem : root-leaves crowded, larger than the 

 stem-leaves : summits fringed. 



E. hot. <*t$?>~Jacq. obs. 7\-Cam. hort. 15. 2-Clus. hist. 315. 

 . Lob. ic. 310. 2-Ger. em. 436-Park. 403. 



Stem simple, supporting a single flower, ascending ; Leaves 

 rather fleshy, dotted with glands, ovate, not at all pointed ; ♦ 

 or 6 in opposite pairs near the root, and two or three pair on the 

 stem. These pairs are united at the base so as to form a kind 

 of cup round the stem. Calyx something more than half the 

 i length of the tube of the blossom. Bloss. fine blue, seldom so 



long as the stem ; segments serrated and toothed ; between each 

 segment there is a little blue 2 -horned appendage, issuing from a 

 white stripe in the tube of the blossom. Anthers shorter than 

 the tube. Summits 2, funneLshaped, fringed ; open on the inner 

 side. 

 + This species and the G. bavarica are nearly allied % T the most 

 obvious difference consisting in the tuft of leaves at the base of 

 the stem, which does not exist in the bavarica. This plant can- 

 not be the Gentianella fugax njerna sen pr&cox. Ray Syn. 27$* 



if he has rightly quoted the figure of Col. Ecphr. t. 221. 



Gent i an a b agaric a. 'Jacquin. obs. 



First discovered by the Rev. Mr. Harriman and Mr. Oliver* 

 growing in great abundance inTeesdale Forest, county of Durham* 

 both on the low grounds and on the bordering mountains, where 

 it is vulgarly called Spring Violet, or Blue Violet. P. April, May. 



nivalis. G. Blossoms 5-cleft, funnel-shaped : branches axillary, al- 

 ternate, 1 -flowered : calyx with 5 keeled angles. 



FL dan. \7.~Lob. ad<v. J 31. and ic i. 3. 10. 3-Hall. enum. 7$* 



Bloss. tube greenish, border a beautiful blue. Haller. 



On Ben Lawers, Scotland. Dickson. Linn. Tr. ii. 290. A* 



Amare'IIa, G. Blossom 5-cleft, salver-shaped; mouth bearded ; calyx 



' ' segments equal. 



