OG ENGLISH BOTANY. 
with the true plant, although the former quotes the erroneous figure 
in Eng. Bot. Sup. 
Broad-leaved Centaury. 
French, Ery three d, Grandes Feuilles. 
SPECIES II.— ERYTH H2E A LITTOK, ALIS. FHes. 
Plate DCCCVIII. Ms. 
Reich. Ic. Fl/Germ. et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MLXI. Fig. 2. 
Billot, Fl. Call, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2S83. 
E. angustifolia, Wallroth, Sched. Crit. p. 504. 
:: .liloodes, Gr. & Goclr. Fl. de Fr.Vol. II. p. 484. 
I!, linarifolia, Griesb. in D. C. Prod. Vol. IX. p. 59. Reich. 1. c. 
Chirouia littoralis, Sm. Eng. Bot. ed. i. No. 2305. 
Stem short and slender, or elongated and rather stout, straight. 
Radical leaves oblanceolate, obtuse ; stem-leaves oblong - strap- 
shaped, or oblong or strapshaped, obtuse ; all 3-nerved, the lateral 
nerves often indistinct. Flowers in compact headlike fasciculate 
cymes, the central flower of each fork of the cyme sessile, the 
lateral ones shortly stalked and with 2 bracts close to the base 
of the calyx. Calyx-segments long, lanceolate-triangular-subulate. 
Corolla-tube scarcely longer than the segments of the calyx ; 
limb of 5 elliptical segments, nearly as long as the tube. Capsule 
"''long-ovoid, not longer than the calyx. Plant glabrous, with the 
calj x and margins of the leaves generally (always ?) puberulent. 
On sandy sea-shores, llather local. On the coast of Anglesea, 
Flint, Carnarvonshire, Lancashire, Northumberland, Isle of Arran ; 
also reported from the shores of the Moray Firth, whence, however, 
I have not seen specimens. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual (?) or biennial. Summer. 
SI cm solitary or several from the crown of the root, rather 
Blender and still*, with 2 or 4 longitudinal lines, which are rather 
more prominent than in the other British species. Leaves ^ to 1 
inch long, very narrow and usually distant, though variable in this 
respect. Flowers low, pink, large. Corolla-tube $ inch long; limb 
concave, about \ inch across. Calyx-segments very long and slender, 
projecting beyond the young buds. Plant green ; leaves thick, some- 
what fleshy ; stem and sepals often minutely puberulent. 
This species cannot be confounded with E. latifolia ; the narrow 
parallel-sided obtuse stem-leaves and oblanceolate radical leaves 
are sufncienl to distinguish it. The inilorescence is wholly different, 
having fewer flowers, and these in one fascicle, instead of forming 
