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PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Gentiana. 



£• hot. 236-Fl. dan. 328-KnlpL I-Walc.-Clus. i. 3lff. I- 

 Ger. em. 437-Pari. 406. 3~H. ox. xii. 5. 3-Ger. 3.54. I- 

 jBarr. 510. 1-J. B. iii. 526'. 2 <W3. 



Scarcely to be distinguished from the G. campestris, but by 

 the calyx. Linn. Lower flowers often 4-cleft, especially in plants 

 which have been bitten off and shot up afresh, in which case also 

 it often produces very minute double flowers, the segments curling 

 in, so as to form a kind of button. Woodward. Moss. blue. 



Autumnal Gentian. Felwort. In dry pastures, mostly on 

 calcareous soil. [Canham Heath, near Bury, Broughton Heath. 

 Huntingdonshire; and Dunstable Hills. Mr. Woodward. About 

 Gordale, below the waterfall. Mr. Wood. Arthur's Seat, Edin- 

 burgh. Mr. Bingham* River side opposite St. Vincent's rocks.] 



277 





Var. 2. Bloss. 4-cleft. 



Wale, named G. campestris. 



Dunstable Hills. Mr* Woodward. 



A. Aug. Sept. 



Var. 



O 



Early flowered. Ray Syn. 2/5. 



Col. Ecphr. 221. 



Near Kendal, on the back side of Hells-fell-nab. 



Mr. Ray 



Mr. 



was misinformed of this being the vernal dwarf Gentian. 

 Fitz-Roberts told Mr. Wilson that the plants he had mentioned 

 to Petiver were the Autumnal Gentian flowering sooner than 

 common. 



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Gentlanella fugax <verna } seu precox. 



minima. 



Gent lane I la p u rp u re a 



April — June. 



G. Blossom 4 or 5-cleft ; mouth bearded: calyx segments, campes'tris. 



2 of them larger. 



-E. hot. 237-/7. dan. 367-Barr. 97. 2-//. ox. xii. 5, row 3. 9. 



Calyx 2 outer opposite segments flat, upright, twice as broad 

 as those between them. Stam. 4. Linn. Calyx-leases distinct, 

 or merely adhering at the base ; the 2 outer egg-spear-shaped ; the 

 inner spear-shaped, somewhat membranaceous, not more than £th 

 the breadth of the outer. Woodward. Bloss. blue. 



Woodwar 



Field Gentian. Mountainous pastures. About Kendal. 



>. Llanberys, Wales, and Perian Round, Cornwall. 



Huds. [Boggy field adjoining to Horsforth Beck, 4 miles from 

 Leeds, plentiful. And amongst the high rocks above the water- 

 fall in Gordale. Mr. Wood. Sea coast, Cheshire. Stratton 

 Heath, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe.] , A. Aug.— Oct. 



G. Centaurluntj see Chironia Centaurium* 



G.j/iliformis, see Exzcumjillforme. 







