66 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



with the true plant, although the former quotes the erroneous figure 

 in Eng. Bot. Sup. 



Broad-leaved Centaury. 



French, Erythree d, Grandes Feuilles. 



SPECIES II.— ERYTH R^ A LITTORALIS. Fries. 



Plate DCCCCVIII. 



Heich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MLXI. Fig. 2. 



JSUlot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2883. 



E. angustifolia, Wahlroth, Sched. Grit. p. 504. 



E. chloodes, Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr.Vol. II. p. 484. 



E. liiiarifolia, Griesb. in Z>. G Prod. Vol. IX. p. 59. lieich. 1. c. 



Chironia littoralis, Sm. Eng. Bot. ed. i. No. 2305. 



Stem short and slender, or elongated and rather stout, straight. 

 Radical leaves oblanceolate, obtuse ; stem-leaves oblong - strap- 

 shaped, or oblong or strapshaped, obtuse ; all 3-nerved, the lateral 

 nerves often indistinct. Elowers in compact headlike fasciculate 

 cymes, the central flower of each fork of the cyme sessile, the 

 lateral ones shortly stalked and with 2 bracts close to the base 

 of the calyx. Calyx-segments long, lanceolate-triangular- subulate. 

 Corolla-tube scarcely longer than the segments of the calyx ; 

 limb of 5 elliptical segments, nearly as long as the tube. Capsule 

 oblong-ovoid, not longer than the calyx. Plant glabrous, with the 

 calyx and margins of the leaves generally (always ?) puberulent. 



On sandy sea-shores. Rather local. On the coast of Anglesea, 

 Plint, Carnarvonshire, Lancashire, Northumberland, Isle of Arran ; 

 also reported from the shores of the Moray Firth, whence, however, 

 I have not seen specimens. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual (?) or biennial. Summer. 



Stem solitary or several from the crown of the root, rather 

 slender and stiff, with 2 or 4 longitudinal lines, which are rather 

 more prominent than in the other British species. Leaves -J to 1 

 inch long, very narrow and usually distant, though variable in this 

 respect. Elowers few, pink, large. Corolla-tube f inch long ; limb 

 concave, about ^ inch across. Calyx-segments very long and slender, 

 projecting beyond the young buds. Plant green ; leaves thick, some- 

 what fleshy ; stem and sepals often minutely puberulent. 



This species cannot be confounded with E. latifolia ; the narrow 

 parallel-sided obtuse stem-leaves and oblanceolate radical leaves 

 are sufficient to distinguish it. The inflorescence is wholly different, 

 having fewer flowers, and these in one fascicle, instead of forming 



