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Devil 's-bit Scabious. Heads diam. | in. ; florets or 

 flowers 4-cleft ; calyx of 4-5 bristles ; stamens 4, long ; 

 flower heads round-topped ; root leaves ovate ; stem leaves 

 oblong ; flowers dull purplish blue ; pastures ; 1-2 ft. 

 (v.c.) 604 



Alpine Flea-bane. Heads diam. f in. or over ; heads 

 1-3 ; flower stalks stout ; ray florets very many, purple, 

 slender ; disc florets yellowish, 5-cleft ; stamens 5 ; plant 

 rough, hairy ; root leaves spreading, oblong-lanceolate ; 

 rnounta Us ; 3-8 in. (R.) 699 



Slender Blue-eyed Grass. Diam. f in. ; perianth 6 ; 

 stamens 3 ; stigmas 3 ; leaves linear, 4 in., and J in. broad ; 

 flowers blue inside only ; bogs ; 6-12 in. (R.) 1144 



Rampion Bell-flower. Diam. nearly f in. ; length 

 nearly f in. ; sepals 5 ; corolla broadly bell-shaped, 

 5-lobed almost to the middle ; lobes recurved ; 

 stamens 5 ; stem leaves narrow, 1J in., sessile; root 

 leaves broadly ovate, long-stalked ; banks ; 2-3 ft. 

 (L.) 742 



Great Purple Toadflax. Diam. J in. ; length 1 in. ; 

 sepals 5 ; corolla tube 2-lipped, closed, with a long spur ; 

 flowers in racemes ; leaves linear-lanceolate, scattered ; 

 old walls ; 2-3 ft. (R.) 863 



Small 



Field Gentian. Diam. nearly j in. ; length nearly 

 f in. ; sepals 4, 2 outer larger ; corolla 4-cleft, fringed 

 in throat with bluish hairs ; root leaves obovate ; stem 

 leaves ovate-oblong, pointed ; moist pastures ; 3-10 in. 

 (c.) 787 



Acrid Lobelia. Diam. nearly J in. ; length f in. ; 

 sepals 5 ; corolla 2-lipped, very irregular, 3 lower lobes 

 hanging ; stamens 5 ; leaves obovate, 2J in. ; stem 

 slender, angular, leafy ; heaths ; 12-18 in. (R.) 753 



Ivy-leaved Bell-flower. Diam. nearly f in. ; length 

 f in. ; sepals 5 ; corolla bell-shaped, 5-cleft ; stamens 5 ; 

 stem thread-like, creeping ; leaves alternate, cordate, 5- 

 angled, f in. ; flowers pale ; woods and bogs ; 6-12 in. 

 (L.) 748 



