PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Gentiana. 73 



Corolla without scales. Stigmas acute. E. B. 378' 

 H. L. 67. Cuscuta. G. E. 577- 



Thistles, nettles, flax. Found near Newbury, Berks. Mr. Bicheno. 



Road to Hinksey. R. W. 

 An. August. 

 Stem thread-shaped, red, branched, parasitic, twining from right to 



left, two or three feet. Ls. none. Fl. heads, dense, round, 



whitish, somewhat pentandrous. Cal. reddish. 



Dyes purphsh. 



C. JEpithymum. Less D. Flowers stalkless, with a 

 notched scale at the base of each stamen. Stigmas 

 acute. E. B. p. 378. C. Europjea. E. B. 55. Sb. 

 m, Epithymum. G. E. 578. 



On common heath, furze, thyme. Tilehurst Common, Berks. 

 R. W. Tffley. Sb. 



Per. July. 



Stem parasitical, thread-shaped, much twisted, deep red. Fl. mostly 

 four-cleft, with four stamens. Cal. red, acute. Cor. wlute. The 

 seed is without cotyledons, puts forth a small spiral body, climb- 

 ing from right to left up other plants. Ls. none. Smaller than 

 C. europsea. 



GENTIA'NA.' Gentian. 



G. Amarella. Autumnal G. Corolla salver-shaped, 

 five cleft ; bearded in the throat. Segments of the 

 calyx nearly equal. Stem flowering from top to bottom, 

 with short axillary branches. E. B. ^SQ. H. L. S3. 



Limestone, chalky pastures. Sm. Bullingdon Green. Shotover Hill, 

 Burford Downs. Sb. 



An. July. 



Stem square, erect. Ls. stalkless, egg-shaped, three nerved, dark- 

 green. Cal. pale, ribs green. Cor. tube twice as long as the 

 cal. Segments rarely three or four. Fringe of the orifice purple. 

 Cor. limb violet. Cal. segments spear-shaped, acute, erect. 

 Whole plant, as its congeners, intensely bitter. Fringe under 



the mouth of the cor. a beautiful microscopic object. 



G. campestris. Field G. Corolla salver-shaped, four 

 cleft ; bearded in the throat. Two outer segments of 

 the calyx egg-shaped, very large. E. B. 237. 



Elevated pastures. Shotover Hill. Sb. B.v. 



An. September. 



Plant paler in colour than G. Amarella, not so tall,/, fewer, more 



' From its discoverer Gentius, king of Illyricura. 



