zi6 OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



leaves are oblong and narrow, in pairs. The flowers are on the 

 tops of the ftalks and branches, very beautiful, of a light red, 

 with circles of a deeper red in dots ; blowing in a conflant fuc- 

 ccflion from Midfummer to near Martinmas, and under culture 

 to near Chriflmas, fevere frofls only making them defift. The 

 cauline leaves refemble thofe of the dwarf Garden-Pink ufed in 

 edgings, and the flowers thofe of the Sweet William, from which 

 it is fometimes called the MULE-PINK. 



121. Purple-flo*wered Centaury fg) is frequent in dry hilly paftures. 

 It flowers in July. 



122. I met with a beautiful variety of it on the bank of the 

 re<5tory-den at Simonbuni, by the road-fide ; the ftalk twelve inches 

 and a half high ; the bottom-leaves an inch and a quarter, and 

 the upper ones an inch, long ; the two lowefl branches four 

 inches and a half in length ; the flowers of a lively purple (h). 

 It flowers at the fame with the former. 



123. Short, bujfjy, annual Centaury ', "with bright purple Flowers (i) 

 is frequent in a large flexuous opening of the wood in the fame 



(s) Centaurium minus. Dod. Pempt. p. 336. lene. Cam. Epit. cum chara<3ere. C. B. 

 Pin. p. 278. Raj. Hift. ii. p. 1092. Syn. iii. p. 286. Tourn. Inft. 122. Martyn. Tourn. 

 i. p. 162. Boerh. Ind. A. p. 223. Dill. Giff. p. 127. Dal. Pharm. p. 189. Centau- 

 reum minus flore purpureo. I. B. iii. p. 353. Gentiana foliis lineari-lanceolatis, caule 

 dichotomo, corollis infundibuliformibus quinquefidis. Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 81. Gen- 

 tiana. foliis trinerviis, ovatis, floribus umbcllatis, tubo ftrifliflimo. Hall. Helv. p. 475. 



(h) Gentiana caule altiore dichotomo, floribus lanceolato-ovatis, umbellatis, Iste pur- 

 purcis. 



(i) Centaureum minus rubrum. Hift. Oxaa. p. 566. Centaureum purpureum, mini- 

 mum. Mar. Hort. Bles. Centaurium minimum, purpureum ramofum. Magn. Bot. Monfp. 

 Martyn. Tourn, i. p. 163. 



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