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town. E.) Hedges near Exmouth. In the Isle of Wight. Stokes W ood 
opposite St. Vincent s Rocks, Bristol. Rev. G. Swayne. (On Tunbridge 
Rocks. Rev. Dr. Goodenough. At Chepstow. FI. Brit. Sea coast, Anglesey, 
below the Old Park, near Beaumaris. Welsh Bot. Rocks on the north side 
of Penmaen Mawr; and Llandidno Rocks, Carnarvonshire. Mr. Griffith* 
We agree with Mr. W. Christy, that the plant of Leigh Woods, near 
Bristol, is precisely the same with that of Devonshire, “ climbing over 
the hedges and attaining a length of many feet.” In other situations, 
as at Lydden Spout, near Dover, and by the Signal House, St. Margaret’s 
Bay, it assumes so different an appearance, as to be viewed by that 
gentleman as a questionable species: “a low trailing plant, whose 
^ranches seldom exceed six inches in length.” E.) P. June—July.* 
EX'ACBM. Bloss. four-cleft, salver-shaped, tube globular: 
Cal. four leaves, or with four divisions : Caps, two-fur¬ 
rowed, two-celled, many-seeded, opening at the apex : 
{Siam, shorter than the limb. E.) 
E. filifor'me. Blossoms with four-clefts : on long fruit-stalks : leaves; 
sessile: stem thread-shaped, forked. 
{Hook. FI Lond. 86. E.)— E. Bot. 235—FI. Dan. 324— Vaill. 6. 3- 
Blossom yellow, generally closed. Sir J. E. Smith first removed this plant 
from the genus Gentiana, and very properly, for it always stood as an 
exception to that. From the size of a pin to four inches high. In a 
sunny day the flower opens fully and is cruciform. It has. no' similitude 
to the Gentians either in taste or in habit. The leaves, (not an inch long) 
are so slender, and so close to the stem, that they are only decernible-on 
nice inspection. ( Capsule , in reality, of but one cell; and the receptacle 
of the seeds is formed by the incrassated indexed margins of the valves. 
Plook. E.) 
Least Gentianella. Marsh Centory. {Gentiana filijormis. Linnv 
Huds. E. filiforme. Sm. Willd. Hook. E.) Gravelly places inundated in; 
winter. E.) Marshes in Cornwall, near St. Ives. In boggy places; 
in Dorsetshire. Pulteney. Also not unfrequent in Devonshire in similar: 
situations. Sand banks between St. Blazey Bridge and the Par Sand,. 
Cornwall. On the bogs between Bodmin and Lostwithiel. Mr. Stack- 
house. (On Horsham Common, Sussex, abundant. Mr. Borrer, in Bot- 
Guide. On Dursey Island, Cork. Mr. Blashford, in Wade. E.) A. July- 
LITTOREL'LA.f Barren and fertile flowers on the same 
plant. 
B. Bloss. four-cleft: Cai. four-leaved : Siam, very long. 
F. Bloss. unequally three-cleft: Cal. none : Style very long 
Nut one-seeded. 
L. lacus'tris. 
* (Dr. Horne pronounces Madder to be a powerful emmenagogue. It is an ingredient 
in the Icteric decoction of Ed. Pharm. The root yields a valuable and subtile red colour. 
It is much used by dyers and calico printers, and is so penetrating, that, (according to 
experiments in Phil. Tr.) it tinges the hones of animals who have it mixed with their 
food. The chief supply is now imported from Holland. These remarks more strictly 
apply to the cultivated kind {R. tinctornm), but our native plant is supposed to possess, 
the same qualities in a lesser degree. E.) 
"t (Diminutive of litus, the shore ; the plant delighting in such moist situations. E.) 
