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remote from the base of the calyx. Calyx-segments lanceolate- 
subulate. Corolla-tube at length exceeding the calyx-segments, 
often one-half or one-third longer ; limb of 5 strapshaped-lanceolate 
sub-acute segments, one-third to one-fourth the length of the full- 
grown tube. Capsule cylindrical, slightly exceeding the calyx. 
Plant glabrous. 
In fields, meadows, and damp sandy places, especially near the 
sea. Not uncommon in England; apparently rare in Scotland, 
where Dumfries is the only locality where it is certainly known to 
occur. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual or biennial. 
Late Summer and Autumn. 
Stem very variable in height, sometimes little more than 
1 inch and at others above a foot high, in the larger specimens 
much branched, and then looking very distinct from all the other 
British species of Erythraea. The distant and solitary flowers in the 
axils of the forks and at the apices of the branches, prevent this 
form from being confounded with any of the others. There is, how- 
ever, a condensed form, which has been found by Mr. P. C. Watson 
in Guernsey, in which the flowers are aggregated as in the preceding 
species, from the lateral branches being extremely short. In this 
case the principal difference from E. Centaurium is the long slender 
calyx-tube, which at length is about -| inch long, and the small 
spreading star-like pink limb of the corolla scarcely J inch across, 
so that the proportion of the tube to the limb is much greater in 
this than in any other species. The flowers, even in the condensed 
state, are more distinctly stalked, and the lateral ones with the 
bracts not close to the base of the calyx. Possibly, however, even 
this may prove to be but a sub-species of E. Centaurium. Mr. Ben- 
tham unites them all, though he is probably unacquainted with 
E. latifolia, as he only quotes the abbreviate form of E. Centau- 
rium in Eng. Bot. Sup., and the condensed state of E. pulchella 
of Eng. Bot. ed. i. to represent it. 
Slender Centaury. 
French, Erythrce Elegante. German, Ileidllches Tausendijuldcnkraut. 
GENUS II— C I C E N D I A. Adans. 
Calyx 4- (or rarely 5-) toothed or -partite. Segments not 
winged. Corolla funnelshaped-salvershaped, persistent and wither- 
ing ; tube short ; limb 4- (rarely 5-) partite. Stamens 4 (rarely 5), 
inserted in the throat of the corolla ; anthers exserted, not spirally 
twisted after the pollen is shed. Style distinct, simple, deciduous; 
