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GENTIANEiE 



corolla-tube. — Dry pastures and waste places ; common. — Fl. 

 July, August. Annual. 



2. C. latijolium (Broad-leaved Centaury), a stunted form, with 

 broadly elliptic leaves^ and flowers in dense, trichasial tufts, with 

 calyx as long as the corolla-tube, and filaments as in the last, 

 occurs only on the sandy shore near Liverpool. — Fl. June — 

 September. Annual. 



3. C. vulgdre (Dwarf Tufted Centaury), a similar, stunted, but 

 unbranched form, with oblong-linear, blunt leaves above and 



spathulate radical ones, 

 occurs more frequently on 

 sandy shores. — Fl. July, 

 August. Annual. 



4. C. pulchellum (Dwarf 

 Centaury), a minute, slender 

 plant, resembling Microcdla 

 filiformis, i — 8 in. high, but 

 much branched, with a few 

 stalked floivers, rose-pink, as 

 in the other species, with 

 calyx rather shorter than the 

 corolla-tube, occurs also on 

 sandy shores, or on wet sand 

 at inland localities. — Fl. July 

 — September. Annual. 



5. C. capitdtuni (Tufted 

 Centaury) has an unbranched 

 stem, not more than 3 inches 

 high, broadly ovate, distinctly 

 3-nerved leaves, a cylindrical 

 corolla-tube and a calyx 

 equalling it in length, and 



differs from all the other forms in its filanients springing from the 

 base of the corolla-tube. — Downs in the Isle of Wight and 

 Sussex. — Fl. July, August. Annual or Biennial. 



4. CiCENDiA (Guernsey Gentianella), represented by the spe- 

 cies C. pusilla, is even smaller and more slender than Microcdla. 

 It is from i — 4 in. high; has spreading branches; linear leaves; 

 pink flowers, and calyx-lobes not apparently united into any tube 

 at their base. — Sandy commons, sometimes flooded, in Guernsey. 

 Fl. July — September. Annual. 



5. Gentiana (Gentian). — Herbs with opposite, sessile leaves ; 

 flowers mostly 5-merous ; corolla funnel- or salver-shaped, tube 



CENTAl^RION TTMBELlAtUM 



{Commoji Centaur}^. 



