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OBD. LY. APOCYNACEJE. 

 VINCA. PERIWINKLE. 



1. V. minor (lesser Periwinkle.) On shady banks and in 

 woods. Stem procumbent, leaves narrow ovate or lanceolate, 

 flowering branches erect. Flowers blue, salver-shaped, solitary, 

 on axillary flower-stalks. Cockington. Coffin's Well. (Blagdon, 

 Mr. Earle.) Chudleigh. White variety, bottom of Bunker's Hill, 

 near Totness, Fl. D. (E. B. t. 917.) P. iv.-vi. 



2. V. major (greater P.) In woods and thickets. Much 

 larger than the former ; leaves oval heart-shaped. Flowers large, 

 purplish-blue. Met with about Torquay occasionally, but pro- 

 bably a truant from shrubberies. Near Ide, Fl. D. (E. B. t. 

 514.) P. IV. -V. 



OBD. LVI. GENTIANACE^l. 



ERYTHR2EA. CENTAURY. 



1. E. Centaurium (common Cent awry.) In dry pastures. 

 Stem from 3 inches to a foot high, square, branched above. 

 Leaves of an oval-oblong, upper ones pointed; flowers nearly 

 sessile, in a corymbose cluster, rose-coloured. Daddy-hole Plain. 

 Babbicombe, etc. (E. B. t. 417.) A. vi.-ix. 



2. E. pulchella (dwarf branched C.) Sandy ground, gene- 

 rally near the sea. Stem from 2 to 6 inches high, much branched ; 

 leaves ovate-oblong. Flowers in a loose leafy cluster, pink. 

 Chapel Hill. Babbicombe. Petit Tor. (E. B. t. 458.) A. YII.-IX. 



GENTXANA. GENTIAN. 



1. G. Amarella (small-flowered Gentian) In dry limestone 

 pastures. Stem erect, square, from 3 to 12 inches high, but ex- 

 tremely variable in size. Leaves sessile, lower ones oval, upper 

 oblong-lanceolate. Flowers pale dull-purple, corolla 5-cleft, and 

 calyx with five lobes. Babbicombe Down. (E. B. t. 236.) A. 

 TIII.-IX. 



2. G. campestris (field G.) Similar situations to the last. 

 Stem from 3 to 10 inches long, very much branched ; leaves el- 

 liptical. Flowers pale sickly-blue, corolla 4-cleft, calyx with four 

 lobes. Babbicombe Down. Watcombe. (E. B. t. 237.) A. 

 TIII.-IX. 



