33° 



GENTIANE^ 



and waste places 



-Fl. 



corolla-tube. — Dry pastures 

 July, August. Annual. 



2. C. latifoUum (Broad-leaved Centaury), a stunted form, with 

 broadly elliptic leaves, and ftowen in dense, trichasial tufts, with 

 calyx as long as the corolla-tube, and filaiiieiils as in the last, 

 occurs only on the .sandy shore near Liverpool. — Fl. June — 

 September. Annual. 



3. C. vtdgdre (Dwarf I'ufted Centaury), a similar, stunted, but 



unbranched form. 



with oblong-linear, blunt leaves above and 

 spathulate radical ones, 

 occurs more frequently on 

 sandy shores. — Fl. July, 

 .August. Annual. 



4.- C. paleJiellnin (Dwarf 

 Centaury), a minute, slender 

 plant, resembling MuTocdla 

 fililorinis, i — 8 in. high, but 

 much branched, with a few 

 stalked flowers, rose-pink, as 

 in the other species, with 

 calyx rather shorter than the 

 corolFa-tube, occurs also on 

 sandy shores, or on wet sand 

 at inland localities. — Fl. July 

 — September. Annual. 



5. C. capildiitm (Tufted 

 Centaury) has an unbranched 

 stem, not more than 3 inches 

 high, broadly ovate, distinctly 

 3-ncrved leaves, a cvlindrical 

 coi'dlla-tiihe and a calyx 

 equalling it in length, and 

 differs from all the other forms in its filnnieids springing from the 

 base of the corolla-tube. — Downs m the Isle of Wight and 

 .Susse.x. — Fl. fuly, August. Annual or liiennial. 



4 CiCENDiA (Guernsey Gentianella), represented by the spe- 

 cies C. pusilla, is even smaller and more* slender than Microcdla. 

 It is from i — 4 in. high; has spreading branches; linear leaves; 

 pink flowers, and calyx-lobes not apparently united into any tube 

 at their base. — Sandy commons, sometimes flooded, in Guernsey. 

 Fl. July — September. Annual. 



5. Genti.an.v (f ientian). - -T Icrhs \\ ilh oi)|H)sile, sessile leaves; 

 flowers mostly 5-merous ; corolla funnel- or salver-shaped, tube 



CENTAl'iRION I'I17BELL,4tUM 

 (^Coifnih^Ji Coita-Hry). 



