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or the lower ones spreading, triangular or triangular-lanceolate, 
cuspidate or subulate (lower leaves often obtuse). Capsule obtuse, 
entire or naergegs -emarginate, oblong or linear, longer or shorter 
than its bra 
tee cirely subalpine; pascual, and ericetal. 
Flowers inclining to white or purple 
Forms CconTAINED In Group IV. 
ng OF — H. Mart. = E. offici- bear nitidula Reut. 
ull. : . ericetorum Jord. 
— E. pons Host : +E. najalis Jord. 
— E. rigidula Jord — E. Cabenniendle Mart. 
— E. tetraquetra Breb. * E. pumila Kern. 
CoNnNECTING Links. —Connected with Parvirtor® through E. majalis and 
Cebenne with Gracttes through for f.. Bras ssiiemrcdiee with Minima 
Hecoss 7 E. aS ie Kern.; with Sanissurcenses through EL. Corsica. 
Group V.—Gracitzs (b). 
Flowers small, tube of corolla not lengthening during flowering. 
Style meena! hooked above. Whole plant slender, usually with 
few branches from about the middle of the stem. Leaves and 
bracts ovate or oblong, usually with cuneate base, and therefore 
rhomboidal; teeth few, 8-4, triangular, of lower leaves blunt, of 
bracts acute or oapat6; Capsule oblong truncate, sometimes 
rive exceeding its cage’ nay imary raceme usually occupying 
y the upper half of the s 
; oer sylvestral, ue aida 
ForMS CONTAINED IN Group V. 
* E. gracilis Fries. — E."micrantha Reich. 
Connectine Links. ts Cannosted with Nemorosx sieeongl E. rigidula and 
forms of E. nemoralis 
Grove VI.—Sauissurcensss (). 
Flowers small, tube of —_ not lengthening gues: flowering. 
Style ultimately hooked abov Stem simple or much bran ched 
throughout. Leaves and Binet (rarely ovate) bien: "Ianceolate oF 
linear, with cuneate base, with about 8 distant and equidista tant (4 in 
- Soyert and F. Soubeiraniana, 8-4 in E. nivalis, 5 in E. Corsica) 
teeth, those of lower leaves blunt, those of bracts isons. subulate, 
spr eading, porrect (teeth sometimes reduced to two on either side). 
Capsule narrow, oblong or vay or truncate, sometimes slightly 
emarginate, shorter than its bra 
Subalpine and alpine, enue and rupestral, 
Forms seers Fon Group VI. 
* FE. saben Hoppe. E. Soyeri Tim.-Lag. = E. Lapey- 
—— Var. rousii Soy.-Will. 
— var. des a mihi, * E. Soubeiraniana,Tim.-Lag. 
— E.c * E. nivalis Beck. 
non Loi 4 
Connectine Linxs.—In the veo oo a gensis var. angustiolie = 
connects SALISBURGENSES. with Tricusp. 
