PENTANDRIA Monogynia.
G en. C har. Cor. wheel-shaped. Caps, bursting all
round. Stamina hairy.
Spec. C har. Leaves ovate inclining to lanceolate,
dotted beneath. Stem upright. Corolla strongly
crenate.
S vn. Anagaliis caerulea. Abbot. 46.
A.'arvensis. Sm. FI. B rit. 230, y . Huds. 87, S.
W ith .238, 2 . H u ll.49,2 . ReIh.84,[2. Sibth.75,[3.
A. foemina. R aii Syn. 282.
w E are induced to publish this plant on account of its beauty
and rarity, and even to allow it the rank of a species at the
persuasion of the Rev. G. R. Leathes, added to the authority
of Dr. Abbot and several other botanists. Mr. Leathes sent
our specimens, along with the much rarer white-flowered variety
of A . arvensis, from fields at Great Saxam, Suffolk. He
remarks that “ the stem of the ccerulea is invariably erect,
leaves narrower than in A. arvensis, t. 529, the corolla much
smaller, and more deeply crenate.” Our t. 529 incorrectly
shows this part fringed rather than crenate. JHaller notices
some of these marks, and adds as a more material one that
the calyx-leaves are awl-shaped, which we cannot find more
remarkable in this than the other, and Haller has omitted
this species ^which is n. 626 of his great work) in his Nomen-
clalor, as if he doubted its permanency, though such an omission
may have arisen from accident.
A . ccerulea flowers in July, about the same time as the
scarlet kind. We have received it from North Luffenham,
near Stamford, by favour of G. Ainslie, Esq., and from various
other places. The root is annual. A . Monelli is very
distinct from this, being perennial, with broad leaves, very
long flower-stalks, large scarcely crenate flowers, and much
more awl-shaped calyx-leaves. Perhaps Haller had examined
this species in a garden, and confounded it with ours.
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