186 GENTIANACE^. 



Hill, 1837, Mr. Children; Herb. Mus. Brit. Stanmore, 1815; 

 Htrb. G. ^ B. Eailway bank, Harrow ; Melv. 51. 

 VI. About Highgate ; Blackst. MS8. and Irv. MSS. 

 VII. West side of Hampstead Heath, near the Vale of Health, J. Bliss ; 

 Park Hampst. 29. By Paddington Canal, near Kensal Green 

 Cemetery ; Britten. 

 First record : Newton, about 1680. With white flowers at Kuislip Eeser- 

 voir; Hind, 



GENTIANA, Linn. 



439. G. Amarella, L. Gr. eu-Amarella {Synie E. B.). Fel-Wort. 

 G. alpina verna (Johns.). Gentianella fugax minor (Ger.). G. 'praten- 

 sis flare lanuginosa, C. B. P. (Blackst.).*' 



Open pastures ; very rare. A. August, September. 



I. In the old chalkpit near Harefield Mill, plentifully ; Blackst. Fasc. 32. 



A little north of Harefield, sparingly, 1868! ; Newb. 

 II. On a heath by Colbrooke ( = Colnbrook) ; Ger. 354 and Johns. 



Ger. 437.t This locality is perhaps in Bucks. 

 First record : Gerarde, 1597. 



[440. G. Pneuxnonantlie, L. Calathian Violet. 



Cyb. Br. ii. 170 ; iii. 468. Syme E. B. vi. t. 914. 



Heaths ; very rare. P. August, September. 

 (II. Heath by Colnbrook ; Cat. Bond. Confounded with G. Amarella ?) 

 III. On Hounslow Heath, sparingly, Eev. Dr. Goodenough; Smith Fl. 

 Brit. i. 285, and Dicks. H. S. Fasc. 7, and Herb. Mus. Brit. 



First record: Dickson, about 1795 ; last, about 1800.] 



G. acaulis, L. is not a British plant. It is recorded as found * near 

 London, but certainly not native ' ; Macreight, 157. 



VILLARSIA, Vent. 

 441. V. nyxupliseoides, Vent. Limnanthemum n., Link. (S3rme E. B.). 

 Nymphcsa lutea minor septentrionalium (Lob. ) . N. lutea minor fl. fimbriato 



(Blackst.). Menyanthes nymph., L. (Huds., &c.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 177; iii. 469. E. B. 217 (drawn from a Thames specimen), 



reproduced in Syme E. B. vi. t. 921. 

 Still water of rivers, and ponds ; rare. P. July, August. 

 II. Near Walton Bridge ! , Viscount Lewisham ; Smith Fl. Brit. i. 226. 

 Creeks of Thames near Sunbury, in vast plenty ; and most creeks of 

 the river in that district. Sir J. Banks; B. G. 401. Entrance to 

 village of Sunbury, where the river is open to the road, J. E. Moxon ; 

 Phyt. i. 747. About Hampton ; Huds. ii. 85. Bet. Hampton and 



* Referred to G. Campestris^'L. in B. G. 402. 

 t The figure represents a stunted specimen. 



