NOTES ON BRITISH GENTIANACEX. 169 
as an extreme form of G. acuta, and also to adopt the conclusions of 
those who regard the latter as specifically identical with G. Amarella of 
the Old World." A yellow-flowered variety of G. Amarella is recorded 
from Betchworth Hill in Phyt. i. 78, o.s., but is omitted from the * Flora 
of Surr aide 
Our text-books state iun; this is flowers in n As far as 
the typical form is concerned, this is correct ; but a variety (the B. precoz 
of Smith, the G. fugaz verna seu pon" z of Ra ay's Synopsis ed. 2, 156 
was * found by the late Sit John Cullum on a heath n Grantham 
and Ancaster, June 6, 1774,” and “seems by his Specimens a dwarf va- 
riety which had survived the winter.” (Eng. i. 31.) is is no 
doubt the plant which has been erroneously aa as G. verna, as 
Mr. R. Chambers in Mag. Nat. Hist. ii. 38, N.s., from “ chalky meadows 
between Tring and Aston Clinton ;” there are specimens of the same 
form from Tring in Herb. E. Forster. According to Smith it flowers 
are specimens from Herb. E. Forster, labelled, “in a meadow between 
Henham and Chickney” (Hl. Essex, p. 204). In Fl. Surrey, p. 151, it 
is recorded by Mr. J. S. Mill “from between Banstead and Chipstead ;” 
and Mr. Pamplin notes its occurrence at Streatley, Berks, in Phyt. i. 381, 
o.s. In Herb. Kew. are examples from “ Watership Chalkpit, Hants, " 
Ripon,” by c juna n Mrs. Russell) ; and others from “near 
lec 
at Drayton Beauchamp, marg and Aston eric am 
as on Keep Hill! "Green Street! etc.; and at Danesfield, near Great 
Marlow (Mr. J. C. Melvill)* : in North Buckinghamshire, in = - disused 
Mr. W. Wa 
chalkpit at Bufflers Holt, near Buckin r 
county distribution of this form is dude. Hants! Surrey, Bucks! 
erks, Essex! Herts! Yorks! te in * Flora Hertfordiensis,’ p- 
381—389, o.s., should not be overlooked. Eng. Bot. ed. 3, t. 918 does 
Aot well represent the plant; Hee Bot. ii. t. 15 is much more satis- 
facto 
Gentiana Pneumonanthe, L. This species still grows in the locality 
where it was so long ago first discovered by Johnso n (Ger. Emac. 438)— 
Nettleton Moor, near Caistor, Lincolnshire I aiea it there in 1862. 
G. acauli PU specimens of this plant, from M. de St. Amans, 
its siae xiptcicuter abt v merui South Wales," are in Herb. Mus. 
Brit. "They were sentto Sir Joseph Banks by König, according to a note 
on Sowerby’ s original drawing for E. B. 1594, which was made from one 
of them. Tt was first published as — in Kónig and Sims' * Annals of 
"ed ii. 196 (1806). Sir J. E. Smith (Eng g. FI. ii. 29) says that the 
rm G. alpina, Vill. “ is exactly veinte by the figure in Eng. Bot.’ 
* "There is a specimen in Herb. Benth., labelled ** Marlow, J. Mill, 1823.” 
