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52. GENTIANACE/E. 
6. Mena'anthes. Cal. 5-pavted. Cor. funnelshaped ; limb 
5-j)arted, bearded internally. Stam. 5. Stigma eapitate. 
Caps. 1-eelled, 2-valved, “ valves bearing the seeds in their 
axis.” 
Suborder I. GentianecB. Tribe I. Chlorete. 
1. Chlora Yellow’-wort. 
1. C. perfoliata (L.); lowermost 1. elliptie-oblong naiTowed 
below, stem 1. broadly perfoliate. — E. B. 60. — St. 12 — 18 in. 
high, simple. Stem 1. triangular-ovate, eonnected by their whole 
breadth in rather distant pairs, glaucous. Panicle forked, many- 
flowered. Cal. divided to its hase into linear-subulate segments. 
Cor. bright yellow. Stigmas yellow. — Dry calcareous hills. 
A. VII.— IX. E. I. 
Tribe II. Erythrcem. 
2. Erythr/EA Renealm. 
1. E. pulchella (Fries); st. erect much branched acutely qua- 
drangidar, 1. ovate the u])permost oblong-lanceolate, Jl. all 
stalked axillary and terminal, cal. rather shorter than the tube of 
the opening corolla, lobes of the cor. elliptic-oblong obtuse. — 
E. B. 458. E. ramosissima Griseb. — St. sometimes quite simple, 
1 in. high and single-flowered; at other times very much branch- 
ed, even from the hase, 6 — 8 in. high, with very numerous 
flowers. Radical 1. very few. Inflorescence dichotomously di- 
vided, the lateral jl. distant from the floral leaves. The length 
of the tube must be observed exactly at the time when the flower 
is about to expand. — Sandy ground. A. VII. — IX. 
2. E. Centaurium (Pers.); st. erect branched above quadran- 
gular, 1. elliptic-oblong the u{)per ones acute, fl. nearly sessile 
coryinhoselv panicled, cal. not half as long as the tube of the 
opening corolla, lobes of the cor. oval. — E. B. 417. — St. 6 — 18 
in. high, usually sim])le below. Panicles of fl. lax. Lateral fl. 
apparently stalked but sessile between the small floral leaves. 
Radical 1. numerous. — Dry pastures. A. VII. VIll. Common 
Centaury. 
3. E. latifoUa (Sm.); st. short branched from the base qua- 
drangular, 1. broadly elliptical obtuse, fl. in dense forked tufts 
sessile, cal. rather shorter than the tube of the opening corolla, 
lobes of the cor. lanceolate. — E. B. S. 2719. — St. thick, 2 — 3 in. 
high, sometimes taller and branched, usually dividing into 3 main 
branches. Fl. densely aggregated. Radical 1. very large, with 
5 — 7 ribs, numerous. “ Cor.-lobes sometimes oval.”Mr. Watson. 
— Near the sea-shore. A. VI.— VIII. E. I. 
