GENTIANACE.E. 71 



SrECIES II.— CICENDIA PILIFORMIS. Delarbre. 



Plate DCCCCXII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. VoL XVII. Tab. MXLV. Fig. 1. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 3152. 



Microcalla filiformis, Link Griesb. in D. C. Prod. Vol. IX. p. 62. Reich, fil. 1. c. 



Exacurn filiforme, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 233. 



Stem slender, slightly branched, hut not from the hase, or 

 simple ; branches erect, simple or nearly so. Leaves very short, 

 linear-subulate, acute. Flowers solitary, at the extremity of the 

 stem and branches, so remote that they are better described 

 as solitary flowers, although they are really disposed in a very 

 lax cyme. Calyx 4-toothed ; teeth divided scarcely one-third of 

 the way down, deltoid, acute. Tube of the corolla rather longer 

 than the calyx-segments ; limb of 4 oval-ovate obtuse segments, 

 about as long as the tube. Capsule oval-ovoid, longer than the 

 calyx-segments. 



In damp places in sandy bogs. Eare. Confined to the coun- 

 ties of Cornwall, Devon, Pembroke, Dorset, Hants, and Sussex. 

 Glengarriff and Cork, Ireland. 



England, Ireland. Annual. Summer, Autumn. 



An upright plant, with thread-like stems 2 to 8 inches high ; 

 the leaves -^ to -§■ inch long, very distant ; the fruiting-peduncles 

 1 to 2 inches long. Corolla-tube \ inch long. Elowers yellow. 

 Capsule brown, about \ inch long, very much more bulky than in 

 the preceding species, from which C. filiformis differs remarkably 

 in the calyx-segments not being free to the base, but merely form- 

 ing small teeth at the top of a cupshaped tube. Plant glabrous. 



Slender Cicendia. 



GENT7S III.—C HLORA. Linn. 



Calyx 8- to 6-partite or cleft ; segments not winged. Corolla 

 widely funnelshaped-rotate, persistent and withering ; tube very 

 short, sub-globular ; segments 8 to 6, divided nearly to the base. 

 Stamens 8 to 6 ; anthers exserted, not spirally twisted after the 

 pollen is shed. Style distinct, bifid, deciduous ; stigmas generally 

 bi-lobed. Capsule ovoid, 1-celled, scpticidally dehiscing by 2 valves, 

 with the placenta 1 parietal and sutural. Seeds numerous, minute. 



