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Stalked axillary and terminal, cat. \.ather shorter than the tube of 

 the opening corolla, cor.-lobes ellip ic-oblong blunt.— £. B. 458. 

 8y. E. B. 910 b. — St. quite simple, 1 in. high and 1-flowered ; 

 or very much branched, 6 — 8 in. high, with very many flowers. 

 Eadical 1. very few. Panicles forked, a fl. in the fork ; lateralfl. 

 distant from the floral leaves. Fl. rose-coloured. — " /3. E. 

 tenuiflora (Link) ; branches erect forming a term, fastigiate 

 lengthened corymb." Towns. MS. — In each species the length of 

 the tube must be observed exactly when the flower is opening. 

 — Sandy ground, fi. Low ground between Oowes and Newport, 

 Isle of Wight. Toiimsend. A. VII.— IX. E. S. I. 



2. E. CentaHrium (Pers.) ; st. branched above quadrangular, 

 1. elliptic-oblong, the upper ones acute,j'?. nearly sessUe corym- 

 bosely panicled, cal. not half as long as the tube of the opening 

 corolla, cor.-lobes oval. — Sy. E. B. 909. — St. 6 — 18 in. high, 

 usually simple below. Panicles of fl. lax. Lateral f,. apparently 

 stalked, but sessile between the two small floral leaves. Radical 1. 

 many. — Dry pastures. A. VIT. YIII. E. S. I. 



3. E. latifdlia (Sm.) ; st. short simple 3-cleft at the top, I. 

 broadly oval blunt 5 — 7-veined,fl. in compact round dense forked 

 term, tufts subsessile, cal. about equalling cor.-tube, cor.-lobes 

 lanceolate.— /Sy. E. B. 907.— St. about 3 in. high. Fl. J as 

 large as in Sp. 2. Lowest 1. sometimes almost orbicular. — Sands 

 by sea near Liverpool, very rare. A. VII. E. 



4. E. littorcHis (Fries) ; st. simple solitary or several from the 

 crown of the root, 1. oblong-linear blunt narrowed below, radical 

 1. crowded spathulate,__^. sessile between the floral 1. densely 

 corymbose, calyx as long as the tube of the opening corolla, cor.- 

 lobes oval blunt. — Sy. E. B. 908. E. chloodes Gren,, not E. 

 linariifolia. — St. 2 — 6 in. high. Corymb usually trichoto- 

 mous, dense; branches sometimes long. Fl. rose-coloured. 

 Radical 1. narrow, many. — Sandy sea-shores. A. VII. VIII. 



E. S. 



** Stamens from base of cor.-tube. 



6. E. capitdta (W.) ; st. short simple, st.-l. ovate or subspathu- 

 leat blunt 3-veined, fl. sessile in compact term, tufts, cal. about 

 equalling cylindrical cor.-tvbe, cor.-lobes oval blunt. — Linn. Journ. 

 xviii. t. 15. — St. less than 3 in. high. Fl.-tufts sessile ; there 

 are often from outer bracts a few long-stalked tufts overtopping 

 primary tuft. Root-1. in rosette, with 3 long and often 2 short 

 veins. Cor.-tvhe not narrowed at top. Stam. fi-om quite base of 

 cor -tube, otherwise free. — ^Downs at Freshwater, Isle of Wight. 

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