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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 Excerpt:...t. 20; G. P. guttata, Bot. Mag. 1.1101. Pueumonanthe vulgaris, Schmid.; Ciminalis Pneumonanthe, Borkh. Specific Character.--Stem decumbent; leaves sublinear, obtuse; Varieties.--These are very numerous, but the most distinct is that flowers pedunculate, terminal, and axillary; corolla campanulate, fivecalled G. P. guttata, figured in Bot. Mag. t. 1101. cleft. Description, &c.--This is a very singular-looking plant, from the great disproportion that exists between the leaves and the flowers, the stem and the leaves being very small, and the flowers very large. The species is common in many parts of England; but the variety guttata is only found on the Continent. This variety differs from the species only in having a few white spots inside the flower. 9.--GENTIANA ACAULIS, Lin. THE STEMLESS GENTIAN, OR COMMON GENTIANELLA. Synonymes.--G. grandiflora, Pers.; Pncumonanthe acaulis. Specific Character.--Stem very short, quadrangular, oneSchmid.; Ciminalis acaulis, Borkh.; C. longiflora, Manch.; C. flowered; flowers very large; corolla campanulate, five-ten-cleft; andiflora, Mayer. segments obtuse, mucronate; leaves with cartilaginous margins; radi Engravings.--Bot. Mag. t. 52; Eng. Bot. t. 1594; and our fig. cle ones crowded, imbricated. 5, in PI. 70. Description, &c.--This very beautiful plaut is probably well known to most of the readers of this work, particularly to those who have visited the gardens of the London Horticultural Society, at Chiswick, in the month of April, as it forms there an edging to some of the borders, so conspicuous, from the beauty of its colour, that few persons can pass it by unnoticed. It is a native of the Alps of middle Europe and Siberia, and it has occasionally been found wild in Britain; though it is probably not a true na...