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thicker upwards. Caps, nearly sessile. Upper 1. and sepals 
pointed. [An annual form with ovate-lanceolate lower 1. and rather smaller 
fl. is G. iaVtica (Murb.).J — Di-v limestone hills. A. or B. VIII. IX. 
E. S. I. 
3. G. nivalis (L.); cor. 5-cleft with minute intermediate bifid 
lobes, throat naked, cal. cylindrical with 5 eqnal lobes and keeled 
amjles, 1. ovate lowermost broadly elliptic. — E. B. 896. — St. 
erect, slightly branched, 1 — 6 in. high. Fl. bright blue. — Top 
of Highland mountains, very rare. A. VIII. S. 
4. G. ver'na (L.) ; cor. 5-cleft with small intermediate bifid 
lobes, throat naked, cal. with prominent angles and sharp teeth, 
1. ovate lower ones crowded, st. ccespitose dngle-floivered with 1 
or 2 pairs of leaves.— .£■. B. 493. .SV. 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 lime- 
stone districts. Teesdale, Durham. Burrin, Co. Clare, Gort, 
Galway, Tuam, &c. P. IV.— VI. E.I. 
** Cor. helhhaped, its throat naked. 
5. G. Pneumonan'the (L.) ; cor. 5-cleft, cal. entire with linear 
blunt lobes, ^. mostli/ solitary slightly stalked, /. linear blunt. — 
E. B. 20. — St. 4 — 10 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 turfy heaths. A. 
VIII. IX. - E. 
Suborder II. MevyantJtece. 
5. Limnan'themum (b'. P. Gmel. 
1. L. nymphoioides (Hoffm. & Link); 1. roundly heartshaped 
floating wavy at the edges, ped. clustered 1-fld., cor. ciliate. — 
Villarsia Vent. E. B. 217. li. xvii. 1042. L. 2Jeltatum 
(Gmel.). — Floating. St. long, round, branched. L. re- 
sembling those of Xympltcka alba, but much smaller. Fl. 
yellow. Caps, sometimes 3-valved. — Still places in rivers, 
rare. P. VII. VIII. E. 
G. Menyan'thes Lirm. em., Griseb. Buckbean. 
1. jy. trifolidta (L.). — E. B. 495. — St. ascending, round, leafy. 
L. tcrnate. Leailets equal, obovate, wavy. Raceme, long- 
stalked, opposite to a leaf, many-tiowered. Cor. tiesh-coloured, 
densely fringed within. — Boggy places. P. V. — VII. E. 8. 1. 
