THE FLORA OF HALIFAX. 73 



APOCYNACE^l 



Yinca minor, L.— 73. Periwinkle. 



Denizen. English type. P. May-June. 

 I 775- Scarce hereabouts, only in a little wood belonging to 

 Willow Hall in Skircoat. — /. Bolton. 



1839. Shroggs near Halifax; 1842. Mayroyd Wood, 

 Hebden Bridge. — Herb. S.K. 



Hebden Bridge. — R. Ley land. 



1867. Wood near the old Spa House, Shibden, having 



escaped from the garden. — /. W. 

 Cromwell Wood, Elland. 



GENTIANE^I. 

 Erythrsea Centaurium, Pers. — 102. Centaury, "Centuary" 

 Native. British type. A. July-September. 

 Dry pastures in Greetland, &c. —Herb. Leyland. 

 1838. Luddenden Dean. — Herb. S.K. 



1845. Centuary grows near Southowram, in Park Nook, 

 Salterhebble, Beverley, Brownhill, in the township of 

 Stansfield. — Med. Bot. Soc. 



1879. Hebden Valley. — Y.N.U. Excars ; Lees' Flora. 



Rare, in dry upland pastures : Luddenden Dean, Broad- 

 bottom in Wadsworth, Crimsworth Dean, Erringden, 

 Wickenhill, and various places near Hebden Bridge. 



Gentiana Amarella, L.— 81, Gentian, Felwort. 



Native. British type. A or B. August-September. 

 1820. Fields in Wadsworth Lanes. — Herb. Leyland. 



1840. Near Halifax. — Bailies' Flo. 



1862. Fields near Magson House, Warley. — C. Eastwood. 

 M tail's Flora. 



1888. Var. uliginosa, Willd. This flowers in May and 

 early June. It has a 4-cleft corolla, occurs about 

 Halifax (F. A. Lees), Ovenden (R. Eavnshaiv), in moist 

 elevated pastures, . . . and evinces none of that 

 partiality for calcareous soil which characterises the type. 

 — Lees' Flora. 



In rough moorland pastures in Mixenden, Luddenden Dean, 

 Midgley, Wadsworth, Crimsworth Dean, Heptonstall, 

 Cragg Vale, Ryburn Valley, &c. It does not flower in 

 the spring but in the autumn. The corolla is 4-cleft, but 



