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FLORA OF FC^RFARSHIRE. 
Gentiana L. Gentian. 
Br . sp . 6. F . 3. 
G. nivalis L. Small Alpine Gentian. H. 218, B. 200. 
— F. July, Augt. A. 
Rocks at the head of Canlochen Glen, in fl. and ft. July 
1.846. 
Varying from one inch, with a single flower, to four or five 
inches with ten flowers. Picked it in the same place in 1844 
in company with Mr Watson and the late Mr Edmondston. 
These rocks, Prof. Balfour observes, “ are well marked by 
the white veins of quartz that intersect them in different 
places, and having at their summit a patch of snow which 
generally remains the whole year. In this situation the plant 
is associated with Erigeron alpinus; and Carex atrata.” The 
quartoze veins are very conspicuous, but the patch of snow is 
more evanescent. 
“ The sparkling of this most rare and lovely gem,” says the 
late Prof. Graham , “ among the scanty mountain herbage, 
cured me of hunger and thirst, and made me forget that I was 
gathering it at the risk of tny neck.” 
North side of Canlochen Glen, along with Veronica saxa- 
tilis and alpina ; and in a new spot in Glenisla, Aug. 1846, 
the specimens varying from one-tenth of an inch to six inches 
in length, Prof. Balfour. 
G. Amarella, L. Small-flowered Autumnal Gentian. H. 
218, B. 200.— F. Aug. Sept. A. 
Sands of Barrie, plentiful, especially about the east end. 
Sea-shore near "Arbroath. • Very variable in size, sometimes 
scarcely an inch in height, with one or two flowers, but usu- 
ally from three to six inches, with numerous flowers, and in 
one specimen culled near Carnoustie, in 1839, by Mr A. 
Croall, sixteen inches high, I counted 200 blossoms and 
pericarps. 
G. campestris , L. Field Gentian. H. 219,B. 200. — F. 
May, Sept. A. 
Sands of Barrie, abundant, from half an inch high, with a 
single flower, to several inches, with numerous flowers. Rocks 
between Arbroath and Auchmithie. Lawhill Dundee. Sid- 
