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Erythrcea Centaurium. Near Light Oaks, Bedford, and at Astley, 

 but sparingly. (R. H.) Fl. July, August. Annual. 



Curtis, iii. 485; E. B. i. 00; Baxter, i. (39. 



Like the blushwort, of the company of which it is fond, this beautiful plant 

 expands its corollas only in sunshine, and is equally distinguished among our 

 wild-flowers by the clear purity of its colour. After the teasel it is the best 

 example among British plants of the connate leaf. 



4. Field Gentian — [Genttana campestris.) 



Amid the virgin turf of uncultivated hills. Werneth Lowe, near 

 Hyde, plentiful. Fo-edge, beyond Bury ; and in the mountainous dis- 

 tricts beyond Stalybridge, common. Fl. August, September. Annual. 



E. B. iv. 237. 



5. Attttjmnal Gentian — {Gentiana Amarella.) 



In similar situations. Saddleworth and Fo-edge, plentiful. Abundant 

 on a bit of waste ground neai* the drawbridge over the canal betweeS' 

 Disley and Strines. (Mr. J. Sidebotham.) Fl. August, September. 



Annual. 



Curtis, iii. 467 ; E. B. iv. 236. 



6. Purple Moor Gentian — {Gentidna Pneumondnthe.) 



On moors, rare. Amberswood Common, between Hindley and 

 Wigan. (R. H.) Highfield Moss, near Parkside, but the quantity 

 much reduced of late years. (J. E.) Dean Moss, near Newton-in-the- 

 Willows, by the race-ground, plentiful, and perhaps now the best 

 locality. Wilmslow Common. (Rev. W. Brownlow.) " Heath near 

 Holmes Chapel." (Baxter.) Fl. August, September. 

 E. B. i. 20; Baxter, iii. 185. 



This beautiful plant formerly grew in abundance on Baguley Moor, a place once 

 famous among botanists, but now converted by the plough into productive farm- 

 land, and serving gi-eater and wider uses. Solitary specimens may i^robably still 

 be found on ditch-banks and drain-sides. Formerly it was abundant also on 

 Woods Moor, Bramhall, but there, too, it has been erased by cultivation. To 

 some it is cause of regret that rich botanizing grounds like Baguley Moor should 

 be taken away ; but nothing can be lamentable which is productive of benefit to 

 a whole community. The right onward furrow of a generous utility is more to 

 be admired than the bloom of a thousand gentians. 



An exceedingly elegant aquatic of this family, the ViUarsia mjmphcBoides, 

 (Curtis, iv. 591.) a miniature water-lily in its round floating leaves, and yellow 



