168 NOTES ON BRITISH GENTIANAGEA. 
Sm." have no connection with the true plant, and belong to the E. tenui- — 
flora, Link. The Liverpool plant appears to be quite unknown to Con- 
aru 
already observed, the two plants have not even a superficial resemblance. 
B. S. 
Miteham Common in 1804. In Herb. Kew. are similar examples from | 
Helen's, Isle of Wight, named in MS. by Dr. Bromfield “ var. perpusilla. 
Of course every intermediate in size between this and the Æ. pulchella as 
generally received may traced. The original Eng. Bot. figure, from 
Yorkshire authenticated by him are in ew.); and the var. À 
Pyramidalis in Scotland. "The plant generally known as G. Amar la m 
England is referred by Grisebach to th B. minor of G — 
Doncaster, in Herb. Mus, Brit. approach G. spathulata, Bartl., whieh 
Grisebach places as var. Y- precor of G. germanica. G. livonica, Esch., 
included und ubspecies ; 
specimens of the former from Dorpat and Ingermannland exactly cor 
respond with those distributed as G. Amarella from Pomerania by *- 
Schultz (Herb. Norm, Cent. 3, no. 319). I should be inclined io 
regard. G. Amarella as a widely distributed super-species, 
under it, besides G. germanica and G. livonica, G. mexicana " 
Ciarlwegi. Bth., both from Mexico, the Indian G. Moorcroftiana, Wall 
Cat. 4390 (not 4300 as cited in DC. Prod ), G. lingulata, Ag. fe 
Lapland, and the North American G. acuta, Mich. So far 
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manica of European | 3 no 
Plants, is the following note upon this number :—‘‘ On examina "Gr 
à series of specimens Dr. Engelmann is inclined to view G. tenus, =: 
hire (Journ. Bot., ii. 65). . termediate 
is. & species of the section Aretophila, and, Ne PIS to Grisebach, m that €- 
ic that section and- the section Amarella. It appears to Ee to & 
ta M.B, and Ge- propinqua, Richardson, are equally refera : 
