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59. GENTIANACEJ3. 
i. Erythr;ea. Cal. tubular 5-4-angular 5-4-partite, lobes 
linear flat simple. Cor. hypocrateriform, tube slender con- 
stricted at the throat, limb stellately 5-4-partite. Anth. 
erect exserted presently spirally twisted. Style distinct 
deciduous. Stigmas 2 more or less coherent or capitate. 
Caps, linear 2-valved imperfectly 2-celled by the indexed 
spongy pla^entiferous margins of the valves. — Ann. herbs 
with square or angular st., opposite connate 1-3-5-nerved 
1., dichotomous terminal cymes and elegant small lively 
pink rarely w. or very rarely y. d. 
Tribe I. Gentianece. 
Subtribe 1. Chlorece. 
1. Erythr^a Renealm. 
§ 1. Eu-erythrcea Griseb. ; d. p. or rose, rarely w., style simple, 
stigma capitate bidd, formed of 2 half-balls or half-ovoids, 
much shorter than the style. Cj’ine dichotomous, d. 
stalked. 
1. E. PULCHELLA (Sw.). 
St. erect slender repeatedly 2-3-chotomously branched leafy 
often bushy, lower 1. not rosulate, oval oblong or ovate-oblong 
obtuse mucronulate, upper narrow-oblong lanceolate or elliptic 
acute ; d. all shortly pedicelled, ebracteate solitary in the forks 
and terminal, not fascicled, forming a large lax leafy subremotely 
many-dd. fastigiate cyme ; sep. duely linear-acuminate, at drst 
as long as and afterwards only a little shorter than cor.-tube, 
lobes of cor. narrow elliptic-oblong subobtuse, “caps. 1-locular” 
(DC.). — TIornem. FI. Dan. t. 1637 ; Hook. Pd. Scot. i. 79; Sm. 
E. FI. i. 322 ; Koch 667 ; Coss. et Germ. i. 258 ; Gren. et Godr. 
ii. 483 ; Bab. 221 ; Willk. et Lange ii. 661. E. piilchella a , caule 
ramosissimo, and b , caule simplici Fr. Nov. FI. Suec. 74. Ery- 
thrcea ramosimma Bers. i. 283 (excl. var. /3) ; Spr. i. 579; DC. 
ix. 57 ; Webb Spic. Gorg. 150; J. A. Schm. FI. Verd. 21 6; 
Griseb. W. I. FI. 422 ; REG. xvii. 13, t. 20. f. 5. E. Centaurium 
WB. ! iii. 19 (not Pers. and excl. syn.). E. pyrenaica Pers. i. 
283 (var. d. albis). Gentiana Centaurium (3 Linn. Sp. 333; 
Lam. Diet. ii. 641. " G. pidcheUa Sw. Act. Holm. (1788) 86 
(84 in Willd.) t. 3. if. 8, 9.” G. ramosmima Till. Dauph. ii. 
(1787) 530; Brot. i. 276. G.palustris Lam. 111. i. 486. no. 2221. 
Chironin pulchella EB. t. 468; Willd. i. 1067 (caule simplici 
uni (loro). C. inaperta Willd. i. 1060. Centaureum (sic) autum- 
nal 'e Chr. Sm. ! in Tuck. Voy. 252 (caule subsimplici 1-3-doro). 
Centaurium minus palustre , ramosissimum Vaill. Par. 32, t. vi. 
