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Tribe III. Swertiece. 



4. Gentia'jta Linn. Gentian. 



* Cor. funnel- or sometoJiat saher-shaped. 



1. G. AmareTla (L.) ; cor. 6-cleft hairy in the throat, cal- 

 lohes 5 nearly equal lanceolate, 1. sessile ovate-lanceolate, radical 

 1. oval-spathulate. — Very variable in size and in the number of 

 the flowers, 3 — 12 in. high, erect. St. square, much branched. 

 H. pale purple, rarely 4-cleft. Caps, stalked or sessile. Cor.- 

 tube obconical or suboylindrical. — a. G. Amarella (Sm.); branches 

 of St. erect, cal.-segm. nearly equal, cor.-tube cylindrical a little 

 exceeding calyx, fl. lurid-purple. — ,3. G. germanica (Willd.); 

 St. much branched, ascending, cal.-segm. unequal, cor.-tube ob- 

 conical much exceeding calyx, fl. bluish-lilac. Seem. J. of 

 B. ii. t. 15. — Dry calcareous fields. A. VIII. IX. Felwort. 



E. S. 1. 



2. G. campes'tris (L.) : cor. 4-cleft hairy in the throat, cal.- 

 lobes 4, 2 outer ones very large ovate, 1. ovate-lanceolate. — St. 

 3 — 10 in. high. Fl. blue ; cor.-tube slightly thicker upwards. 

 Caps, nearly sessile. Upper 1. and sepals pointed. — Dry lime- 

 stone hills. A. VIII. IX. E. S. I. 



S. G. nivdlis (L.) ; cor. S-cleft with minute intermediate bifid 

 lobes, throat naked, cal. cylindrical with 5 keeled angles, 1. ovate 

 lowermost broadly elliptic. — St. 'erect, slightly branched, 1 — 6 

 in. high. Fl. bright blue. — Summits of Highland mountains, 

 very rare, A. VIII. S. 



4. G. ver'na (L. ) ; cor. 5-oleft vidth small intermediate bifid 

 lobes, throat naked, cal. with prominent angles and sharp teeth, 

 1. ovate lower ones crowded, st. ccespitose single-flowered with 1 

 or 2 pairs of leaves. — St. 40. 12. — St. prostrate, rooting, each 

 ending in a roselike tuft of 1. and a single short flowering shoot. 

 Fl. rather large, vivid blue. — ^Barren limestone districts. Tees- 

 dale, Durham. Burrin, Clare ; near Gort, Galway, Tuam, &c. 

 P. IV.— "VI. E. I. 



** Cor. bellshaped, its throat naked. 



5. G. Pneumonan'the (L.) ; cor. 6-cleft, cal. entire with linear 

 blunt lobes,j^. mostly solitary slightly stalked, I. linear blunt. — 

 St. 4 — lO in. high, leafy, simple, erect or ascending. Fl. very 

 large, deep blue within and with a broad greenish band down 

 the middle of each segment. — Moist tm'fy heaths. A. VIII. 

 IX. E. 



[(?. acawlis (L.) E. B. 1594 is not a native.] 



