288 51. GEX1TAXACE-E. 



thicker upwards. Caps, nearly sessile. Upper 1. and sepals 

 pointed. [An annual form with ovate-lanceolate lower 1. and rather 

 smaller fl. is G. baltica Murb.J Dry limestone hills. A. or B. 

 VIII. IX. E. S. I. 



3. G. nivdlis (L.) ; cor. 5-cleft with minute intermediate bifid 

 lobes, throat naked, cal. cylindrical with 5 equal lobes and keeled 

 anf/les, 1. ovate lowermost broadly elliptic. E. B. 896. St. 

 erect, slightly branched, 1 6 in. high. Fl. bright blue. Top 

 of Highland mountains, very rare. A. VIII. S. 



4. G. ver'na (L.) ; cor. 5-cleft with small intermediate bifid 

 lobes, throat naked, cal. with prominent angles and sharp teeth, 

 1. ovate lower ones crowded, st. ccespitose sinyle-jloicered with 1 

 or 2 pairs of leaves. E. B. 493. St. 40. 12. St. prostrate, 

 rooting, each ending in a roselike tuft of 1. and a single short 

 flowering shoot. Fl. rather large, vivid blue. Barren lime- 

 stone districts. Teesdale, Durham. Burrin, Co. Clare j Gort, 

 Galway, Tuam, &c. P. IV. VI. E. I. 



** Cor. bclliJiaped, its throat naked. 



5. G. Pneumonari the (L.) ; cor. 5-cleft, cal. entire with linear 

 blunt lobes,./?, mostly solitary slightly stalked, /. linear blunt. 

 E. B. 20. St. 4 10 in. high, leafy, simple, erect or ascending. 

 Fl. very large, deep blue within and with a broad greenish band 

 down the middle of each segment. Moist turfy heaths. A. 

 VIII. IX. E. 



Suborder II. Menyanthea. 



5. LIMNAN'THEMUM S. P. Gm. 



1. L.peltdtum (Gm.) ; 1. roundly heartshaped floating wavy 

 at the edges, ped. clustered 1-fld., cor. ciliate. Villarsia Vent. 

 E. B. 217. R. xvii. 1042. L. nymphceoides (Link) ed. viil 

 Floating. St. long, round, branched. L. resembling those of 

 Castalia speciosa, but much smaller. Fl. yellow. Caps, 

 sometimes 3-valved. Still places in rivers, rare. P. VII. 

 VIIL E. 



6. MENYAN'THES Linn. Buckbean. 



1. M. trifolidta (L.}.E. B. 495. St. ascending, round, leafy. 

 L. ternate. Leaflets equal, obovate, wavy. Raceme long- 

 stalked, opposite to a leaf, many-flowered. Cor. flesh-coloured, 

 densely fringed within. Boggy places. P. V. VII. E. S. 1. 



