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angles, corolla salver-shaped with 5 large and 5 small alternate 
bifid segments. E. B. t. 493. 
Alpine pastures, rare. Middleton in Teesdale, Durham. Between 
Gort and Galway ; and on limestone rocks in the Barony of Burrin, 
Clare; Ireland. 7/.. 4 — 6. 
3. G. nivalis L. (small alpine G .) ; branches single-flowered, 
leaves elliptical, corolla salver-shaped 5-cleft with intermediate 
small bifid segments, calyx cylindrical its angles keeled (brown). 
E. B. t. 896. 
Mountains of Scotland, exceedingly rare ; Craig Calleach ; Ben 
Lawers ; and Glen Isla, Clova. 0. 8. — This rare and beautiful 
little alpine plant varies in height from 1 to 6 inches. 
*** Cor. 4 — 5-cleft, somewhat salver-shaped, fringed at the throat. 
4. G. Amarella L. (small-flowered G .) ; stem much branched, 
root-leaves oval spathulate upper ones ovato-lanceolate sessile, 
cal. lobes lanceolate nearly equal shorter than the tube of the 
corolla which is cylindrical or obconical its limb 5-cleft, germen 
linear-oblong and as well as the capsule sessile or shortly stipi- 
tate. E. B. t. 236. 
Dry pastures in England and Scotland, but not very common. ©. 
7 — 9 In the Flora Londinensis an opinion is expressed that the G. 
Amarella and G. Germanica are not specifically distinct. Grisebach. 
Koch, and others, think they are, ascribing to the former pointed 
calyx lobes and sessile capsules, and to the latter blunt calyx lobes 
and stalked capsules. G. Germanica is said to have been found at 
ltipon in Yorkshire, and at Tring, Herts ; to flower later than our 
G. Amarella, and to have larger and blue flowers. Mr. Luxford, in the 
Phyt. i. p. 381, has shown that, so far at least as regards British 
specimens, there are many intermediate states. Our Swiss ones of G. 
Germanica have certainly a conspicuous stalk (about an eighth of an 
inch long) to the capsule, and constantly large and obconical flowers, 
while G. Amarella of the north of Europe has a sessile capsule ; but 
these, the southern and northern forms, seem to be united by those of 
this country. 
5. G. campcstris L. (Field G.) ; stem very much branched 
many-flowered, leaves ovato-lanceolate, 2 outer segments of 
the calyx very large ovate, corolla 4-cleft. E. B. t. 237. 
PI illy pastures, frequent on a limestone or chalky soil in England 
and Ireland. Abundant in Scotland, especially near the sea. 0. 
8 — 10. — Flowers larger than in the preceding, and so numerous in 
specimens gathered on the Isle of Skye, that we have counted 86 on 
one plant. 
[SWrfia perennis L. (E. B. t. 1441) is said by Hudson to have 
been found in Wales by Dr. Richardson ; but it is supposed that 
Gentiana Pneumonanthe had been mistaken for it.] 
