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■ 2. Erythb^'a Renealm. Centaury. 



Cah 5-cIeft. Cor, funnel-shaped, withering, its limh short. 

 Anthers at length spirally twisted. Style 1, deciduous. Stigmas 

 2. Cop^. .linear, 2-celled. — ISTamed from epvOpor^ recl^ the colour 

 of the flowers in most of the species. 



1. E. Centaurium Pers. (common C) ; stem nearly simple 

 leaves ovate-oblong, flowers nearly sessile fasciculate-paniculate' 

 calyx half as long as the tube of the opening corolla. Gentiana 

 E. B. t. 417. 



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Dry pastures, frequent/ 0. 6—9. — Stem 8 — 10 inches to a 

 foot higl], lloot-laaves spreading, three-nerved, broader than those of 

 the stem, which are in distant pairs. Panicles o? flowers fascicled 

 near the top of the stem, and forming a sort of corymb. Corolla hand- 

 some, rose-coloured. 



2. E, piilchella Fries (dwarf hranclied C) ;. stem much 

 branched, leaves ovate-oblong, flowers pedicellate in lax pani-' 

 cles, calyx nearly as long as the tube of the opening corolla. 

 Chironia E. B. t. 458. 



Sandy sea-shores, England and Scotland. 

 Ireland. G), 7—10. — Stems 2 



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Cape Clear Island 



0. 7 — 10. — Stems 2 — 4 or 6 inches high, slender and 

 much branched from near the base. Fa7iicle spreading, leafy, dicho- 

 tomous, with a shigle flower-stalk between the branches. — Perhaps 

 only a var. of the preceding. 



3. E. latifolia Sm. (hroad-leaved tufted C.) ; stem 3-cleft at 

 the top, flov/ers in dense forked tuft^, calyx nearly as long as 

 the tube of the opening corolla, segments of the corolla lanceo- 



late, lower leaves broadly elliptical with 5 or 7 ribs 

 t. 2719. 



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Sea-shore. Sandy ground near the sea, to the north of Liver- 



Near Holyhead. County of Down, Ireland. StafFa. ©. 

 Some Irish specimens have the leaves an inch and a half lono- 



and three quarters of an inch broad, not confined to the root, an'd 

 rising one pair close above the other; yet we can hardly persuade'our- 

 selves they are distinct from E. Centaurinm. Mr. W. Wilson observes 

 that the lobes of the coroila are sometimes oval. 



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4. E. Imarifolia Pers. {dwarf tvftsd C.) ; stem simple or 

 branched, radical leaves crowded spathulate, cauline ones oblono- 

 linear obtuse, flowers sessile capitate-paniculate, calyx as lono- a1 

 the tube of the opening corolla deeply cleft. Chironia littor^alis 

 E. B. t. 2305. Erjthraja Hook. Scot. 



Sandy coasts of Nortliuraberland, Lancashire, Walrs, Scotland. 

 Portmarnock sands, Ireland. G). Q 



2 — 6' inches. 



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Leaves all narrow. 



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Varying in height from 



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the tube of tlie corolla, in our specimens scarcely united bv a mem- 

 brane as m the 2 preceding species ; but most of the characters 



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