382 AUTUMN FLOWERS AND FRUITS. 



(40) Cyclamen. Sow-bread. 



C. europseum : tuberous ; leaves long-stalked, heart-shaped, 

 with shallow angular lobes, blotched with white above, pur- 

 plish beneath ; flowers pale rose-coloured or whitish, with two- 

 horned spots at the mouth. — Woods in Sussex and Kent, rare. 

 n. August, September. 



(41) Gentiana. Gentian. 



* Throat of corolla fringed with long hairs. 



G. Amarella: annual, very variable in size and in the 

 number of the flowers ; stem 3-12 inches high, erect, square, 

 much-branched; leaves sessile, ovate-lanceolate, the radical 

 ones obovate ; flowers pale purple, the corolla salver-shaped, 

 five-cleft; calyx- segments five, nearly equal, linear-lanceolate. 

 — Dry limestone pastures. Fl. August, September. 



G. campestris : annual ; stem 3-10 inches high ; leaves ellip- 

 tic-oblong; flowers blue, salver- shaped, four-cleft, the tube of 

 the corolla slightly thicker upwards ; calyx-segments four, the 

 two outer ones very large, ovate. — Dry limestone pastures, 

 n. August, September. 



** Throat of corolla nalced, not fringed. 



G. Pneumonanthe : stem 4-10 inches high, leafj^, simple, 

 erect or ascending ; leaves linear, obtuse ; flowers very large, 

 mostly solitary, slightly stalked, bell-shaped, five-cleft, deep 

 blue, with five greenish bands down the middle of each seg- 

 ment. — Calathian Violet. — Moist turfy heaths. Fl. August, 

 September. 



(42) Mentha. Mint. 

 M. Pulegium: stem prostrate; leaves stalked, elliptical. 



