GEXTIANEiE POLEMOXI ACE.S. 
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— St. erect, slightly branched, 2 or 3 in. high. Fl. bright blue. 
— Summits of highland mountains, very rare. A. VIII. S. 
4. G. rerna (L.) ; cor. salvershaped 5-cleft with small inter- 
mediate bifid segments, throat naked, cal. with prominent angles 
and sharp teeth, 1. ovate lower ones crowded, st. ccespitose sinyle- 
fowered with 1 or 2 pairs of leaves.— E. B. 493. St. 40. 12.— 
St. prostrate, rooting, each terminating in a roselike tuft of 1. 
and producing a single short flowering shoot. Fl. rather large, 
vivid blue. — Barren limestone districts. Burrin and between 
Gort and Galway, Clare. Teesdale, Durham. P. IV. E. I. 
5. G. Pneumonanthe (L.) ; cor. bellshaped 5-cleft, throat naked, 
cal. entire with linear obtuse segments,,//, mostly solitary slightly 
stalked, I. linear obtuse. — E. B. 20. — St. 4 — 10 in. high, leafy, 
simple, erect or ascending. Fl. very large, deep blue with 5 
greenish bands down the middle of each segment. — Moist turfy 
heaths. A. VIII. IX. E. 
[(?. acaulis (L.) E. B. 1594. has been improperly recorded as 
British.] 
[SfVERTIA perennis (L.) which may be known from our plants 
of this Order by the 2 curious fringed glands at the base of each 
segment of the corolla (E. B. 1441.) is said to have been formerly 
found in Wales.] 
Suborder II. Menyanthidea. 
5. Villarsia Vent. 
1. V. ?iymphcEoides (Vent.) ; 1. opposite heartshaped floating 
wavy at the edges, peduncles aggregate 1 -flowered, cor. ciliated. 
— E. B. 217. St. 13. 4. Limnanthemum Gmel., Griseb. — Float- 
ing. St. long, round, branched. L. resembling those of Nymphaa 
alba but much smaller. Fl. vellow. — Still places in rivers, rare. 
P. VII. VIII. E. 
6. Mexyaxthes Linn. 
1. M. trifoliata (L.). The only species.— E. B. 495. St. 8. 
— L. ternate. Leaflets equal, obovate, wavy. Clusters stalked, 
each opposite to a leaf, many-flowered. Cor. flesh-coloured, 
denselv bearded. St. ascending, round, leafy. — Bogsv places. 
P. V.— VII. Buckbean. 
Order LIII. POLEMOXIACE/E. 
Cal. inferior, 5-parted, persistent. Cor. hypogynous, regular, 
5-lobed. Stam. 5, unequal, on the tube of the corolla. Ovary 
2-celled. Stigmas 3-fid. Caps. 3-celled, 3-valved, valves sepa- 
rating at the axis. 
1. Polemoxium. Cal. 5-fid. Cor. rotate, with a short tube 
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