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LEES: NOTE ON A LOWLAND SAND-LOVING GENTIAN. 
‘rarely shorter.’ Middle and lower internodal spaces variable— 
‘shorter than or slightly longer than their leaves.’ Stem-leaves 
ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, and more acute upwards ; middle 
ones usually spreading, upper horizontally patent. Flowering 
from late in July through September. Eng. Bot., plate 236— 
corresponding to the usual Amared/a of our calcareous soils. 
There are many forms hardly worthy of a name, such as the 
simple, unbranched, yellowish-white flowered starved states of 
the bare limestone crags, and a much branched form (multicaulis 
Lange) found in Shetland by Mr. Beeby, which has the corolla 
lobes erect and brownish externally. 
5. Gentiana *lingulata C. A. Agardh. Biennial, and type-species 
characters as in axi//aris, save that the rosette leaves are blunter. 
Middle internodes elongated, exceeding their leaves. Mid 
and upper stem-leaves oblong, rounded or obtuse at tip, 
middle ones not distinctly spreading, flowers from mid June to 
July end, later further north. Mr. Beeby says this is known in 
Britain only as our var. Pr@cox Raf. (1095 b. Lond. Cat.), referred 
by Herr Murbeck to his sub-specific 4ingu/ata. With us this 
precox is often in bloom on the chalk downs of Dorset, Wight 
Isle, and Surrey by mid May. Though usually so, it is not 
invariably a dwarfer plant with few and short internodes: some 
seasons it spindles up quickly and has long middle internodal 
spaces. Itseems to me more than probable that (as Mr. Beeby 
suggests) it is only a state of the Agardhian plant, and that only 
a variety at best of the type Amarella. G. precox isa Yorkshire 
plant, with a clear preference for the cause of its being—some 
forcing, climatic influence gained by proximity to the sea; 
humid air, lack of shade and absence of competition, possibly. 
6. Gentiana uliginosa Willd. Annual—the homologue in this 
section of da/tica in the preceding. Not rosetting, basal leaves 
few, ovate to lanceolate, broadest below the middle. Corolla 
tube equalling the calyx. Internodal spaces exceeding the leaves. 
A drawn-up plant, not branching greatly, with a wiry angled 
stem, smaller brighter-pigmented corollas, calycine segments five, 
but often unequal, one a mere awl-shaped rib. Flowering from 
mid August to October. Wet stony places, usually at some — 
elevation. Nyman vouches for it as a Scottish piant ; I consider 
the Halifax and Delph stations belong to this also; but until 
these matters were quite cleared up, I think it would have been 
as great a mistake to include G. wliginosa, as it is to give 
number and specific rank to G. da/tica in the oth edn. of the 
new London Catalogue. 
SS mT 
Naturalistr” 
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