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THE GENTIAN FAMILY. 



ing, divided into 5 ovate or oblong 

 lobes, without any smaller ones be- 

 tween them, but furnished withinside, 

 at the mouth of the tube, with a fringe 

 of hairs half as long as the lobes. 



In rather dry hilly pastures, in Eu- 

 rope and Russian Asia, extending to the 

 Arctic Circle, but becoming rather a 

 mountain plant in southern Europe. 

 Diffused over the greater part of Britain. 

 Fl. end of summer and autumn. The 

 flowers (including the limb) vary with 

 us from 6 to 9 lines in length, more 

 rarely attaining an inch, whilst in some 

 Continental specimens they are some- 

 times yet longer. 



Fig. 673. 



5. Field Gentian. Gentiana campestris, Linn. (Fig. 674.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 237.) 



An erect annual, much resembling at 

 first sight the autumn G., but usually 

 rather stouter, more branched, and more 

 crowded with leaves and flowers, though 

 seldom above 6 inches high ; and it is 

 easily known by the parts of the flower 

 being in fours, not in fives, and by two 

 of the lobes of the calyx being broadly 

 ovate, overlapping the two other narrow 

 ones. The blue fringe of the mouth of 

 the corolla is very conspicuous. 



In open pastures, and commons, chiefly 

 in limestone districts, in central and 

 northern Europe, but not recorded from 

 the Caucasus or eastward of the Ural. 

 More frequent in Britain than the last 

 species. Fl. autumn. 

 Fig. 674 





