Devon than in other counties: Mr. Yonge, in B.G. Babbacombe: H. Woolt. 
combe, Esq. — Dorset ; On VVareham Oommon, by the side of the road as you 
go to Corfe Castle: Rev. Dr. Goodenough. Common on the sandy parts of 
heaths, especially on the borders of pits, pools, ditches, and bogs ; about a mile 
from Sherford Bridge, in the road to Wareham; on Pool Heath, and by the 
Fleets; in the way from Corf Mullein to Pool; in Purbeck ; heaths between 
Wimbourne and Ringwood; about Christchurch; and Motion, plentifully: Dr. 
Pulteney, iti B. G. — Surrey? Abundant by the sides of the road, and on a 
moist sandy hillock, near a swamp, about midway between Pease-Pottage Gate 
and Starve-Mouse Plain, on Tilgate Forest; and on the banks of a pool, about 
half a mile to the north of the former station : Reigate Flora. — Sussex ; Previ- 
ous to the enclosure of Horsham Common, it grew there abundantly, and still 
grows plentifully in St. Leonard’s Forest: T. H. Cooper, Esq. in N. B.G. — 
IRELAND. Sandy turf-bogs, near Bantry: Miss Hutchins, Mr. J. Drum- 
mond, and Mr. W. Wilson, in FI. Ilibernica. Near Cork; upon Dursey 
Island; and at GlengarifF: Sir W. J. Hooker. 
Annual. — Flowers from June to August. 
Root small, fibrous. Stem from 2 to 4 inches high, upright, 
nearly round, slender, flexuose, branched, more or less forked, 
smooth, leafy, especially at the base. Leaves spear-shaped, or 
approaching to spatulate, simple, entire, opposite, connate at the 
base, single-ribbed, somewhat fleshy ; those near the root the 
largest, yet scarcely 3 lines long, spreading or slightly reflexed, 
near together ; the others very remote, more narrow, upright. 
Peduncles terminal and lateral, upright, from 1 to 2 inches long, 
slender, single-flowered. Flowers small, yellow, opening only in 
bright sunshine. Calyx with 4 pointed segments, membranaceous 
at the margin. Corolla permanent, its tube closely appressed to the 
germen. Filaments short. Anthers a little exserted. Capsule co- 
vered with the permanent calyx and corolla. Seeds numerous, 
brown, somewhat egg-shaped, slightly angular, dotted ; their re- 
ceptacle (placenta) formed by the incrassated indexed margins of 
the 2 valves of the capsule. 
As well as of England and Ireland, this curious little plant is a native also of 
France, and Denmark ; and of Chili, about Conception. It differs from Gentiana 
in the number of stamens and divisions of the calyx and corolla. 
The specimen from which the drawing for the accompanying plate was made, 
was kindly communicated to me from Gorse Moor, Cornwall, by Mr. W. Willis, 
of St. Austell. Specimens of it have also been obligingly communicated by 
J. C. Ricki m, Esq. of East Leigh, Hants. 
The plants which compose the JVatural Order Gentiane.® are 
mostly herbaceous, seldom shrubby, usually smooth, with opposite, 
sometimes alternate, entire leaves, without stipulce. The flowers are 
terminal or axillary. The calyx is inferior, of 1 sepal, divided, and 
permanent. The corolla is monopetalous, usually regular, wither- 
ing or deciduous ; the limb with an imbricated, twisted aestivation, 
sometimes only 4, but mostly 5, 6, 8, or 10-lobed. Stamens equal 
in number with the lobes of the corolla. Ovary solitary, 1- or 
2-celled, many-seeded. Styles 1 or 2, either partially or wholly 
cohering. Stigmas 1 or 2. Capsule (sometimes a berry) many- 
seeded, with 1 or 2 cells, and generally 2 valves ; the margins of 
the valves turned inwards, and in the genera with 1 cell, bearing the 
seeds ; in the 2-celled genera the seeds are on a central receptacle. 
Albumen fleshy. 
The plants of this order are innocuous, and remarkable for their exceeding 
bitterness, which makes them unfit for food, but at the same time renders them 
valuable tonic and stomachic medicines. It includes the following Btitish Genera: 
1. Exacum, t. 400.— 2. Erythrcca, t.367.— 3. Gentiana, 1. 185.— 4. Swertia — 
5. Chlora, t. 69. —6. Menyanthes, t. 245.— 7. Villarsia, 1. 161. 
