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GENTIANACE^. 



ERYTHEMA, Renealm. 

 458. E. Centaurium, Pers. Common Centuary. 



Native ; on banks and in barren or dry pastures. Common. Part 

 of June to September. 

 c. I. Port "Wrinkle. Between Polbathick and Caracawn. Near Tre- 

 gantle, by the road to Antony ; a very dwarf form ; on a bank 

 at Tregantle, in 187S, between one hundred and two hundred 

 plants, all with floAvers of a remarkably light pink. Near 

 Wacker Mill. Landrake. 

 II. Near Millbrook ; between Calstock and Gunnislake ; Keys, Fl. 

 iii. 112. Antony. Saltash and Callington Road. A plant 

 with white flowers, close to others, between Rame Head and 

 Penlee Point, August, 1875 ; four near St. Mellion, agam witli 

 others, 1876. Peaty enclosure from Hmgston Down ; a very 

 dwarf form, 1879. 

 D. III. Plymouth and Saltash Road. Tamerton Foliot. Beer Ferrers. 

 IV. Under the Hoe and Citadel, Plymouth ; Keys, ib. ; a plant under 

 the Hoe, 1879. Saltram ; between Colebrook and Shaugh ; 

 Id. et. ib. CattedoAvn. Between Lipson and Compton. Egg 

 Buckland. Two plants with white flowers at Hemerdon, 1876*. 

 V. Wembury ; seen here with w^hite flowers. Revelstoke. Between 

 Brixton and Yealmpton. Newton Ferrers. Cornwood. Plants 

 with flowers of a light purplish-rose, intermixed with others, in 

 plenty in a field by Crownhill Down, July, 1878. 

 YI. Mothecombe. Kingston. Holbeton. Modbury. 

 Very variable ; sometimes with a stem more than a foot high, at others 

 with all the flow^ers aggi-egated into a dense mass rising only an inch or 

 two from the ground. 



459. E. pulchella, Fries. Slender Centuary. 



Native ; in damp or clayey pastures and corn-fields, and m moist 



spots by roadsides. Rather common. July to October. 

 c. I. On the cliffs near Craf thole ; Jones, Tour, 16. Roadside between 



Latchbrook and Stoketon, 1871 ; close to N otter farm-house, 



1875. By the road between Moditon MiU and Pillaton, 1875. 



Near St. Mellion and Clapper Bridge. 

 II. Fields between Torpomt and St. Johns ; Phyt. v. N. S. 370 ; 



1861, 1875, &c. Between Penlee Point and Rame Head. 



Above the coast at Tregantle. Near Millbrook, 1877. By the 



old road from Trevol to Antony village, 1875 ; by the turnpike 



road near this village, 1879. 



