LEES: NOTE ON A LOWLAND SAND-LOVING GENTIAN. 227 
For convenience I here copy Herr Murbeck’s distinctive points 
from Mr. Beeby’s exposition of them; the arrangement and some 
unimportant amplifications being mine own. 
A. Calyx 4-partite, unequal, the 2 larger ovate sepals enwrapping the smaller. 
(GENTIANA CAMPESTRIS Angl. Auct.)) 
1. Gentiana *germanica Murb. (not Willd.). Biennial, basal 
leaves rosetted (first and second year) spathulate, broadest 
above middle, towards the tip. Tube of corolla mostly longer 
than sepals. Internodes about the length of the leaves. Mid 
and upper stem leaves lanceolate, more or less acute; middle 
and higher spreading, more strongly upwards. In flower end 
July to Sept. This is the usual British form, hitherto called 
campestris. 
2. Gentiana *suecica Murb. Biennial, rosetted spathulate leaves 
as in preceding. Corolla-tube rarely shorter than sepals. 
Internodes usually much longer than leaves. Mid and higher 
stem leaves strap-shaped oblong, obtuse, middle erect or inclined 
upwards. Flowers mid-June to August (high latitudes). Mr. 
Beeby gathered plants at Balta Sound, Shetland, with simple 
One-flowered stems, and a form approaching this in the distant 
pairs of leaves. The Redcar sandhill plant has the like, and 
may be this, if not dadtica. 
3. Gentiana baltica Murb. Annual. ‘Basal leaves few, ovate or 
lanceolate, broadest below or at the middle’ (no spatulating 
or strap-shaping). Corolla tube mostly ‘shorter than the calyx, 
rarely longer. (This lack of definiteness is disquieting.) 
Flowering mid-August to October. Most annuals necessarily 
flower rather later than their perennial allies. Distribution of 
specimens seen by Herr Murbeck:—Lizard Downs, West 
Cornwall; Roborough Down, South Devon; Suffolk, Bury 
St. Edmunds (First E.B., plate 237); Norfolk East, St. Faiths, 
Newton; Caernarvon, Tremlyd Point; and vice county rro 
Outer Hebrides, on the information of Mr. Whitwell. Nothing 
is definitely stated as to relative internodal space in Mr. Beeby’s 
paper, and I have not seen their specimens, but in what of my 
own I take to be éa/tica they range from the normal of 
campestris (about length of leaves) to appreciably shorter, the 
facies being that of a dwarfish, rather sturdy plant. 
B. Calyx 5 (only monstrously 4)- partite, segments subequal, linear-lanceolate, 
not overlapping (GENTIANA AMARELLA Angl. Auct.). 
4. Gentiana *axillaris Murb. Biennial, basal leaves rosetting 
first and flowering years, spathulate to ligulate, broadest above 
middle, subacute. Corolla tube mostly longer than calyx, 
August 189s. 
