A New British Flora British Wild Flowers in Their Natural Haunts volume 2
A New British Flora British Wild Flowers in Their Natural Haunts volume 2
A R Arthur Reginald Horwood
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Africa, and has been intro- duced in North America. It is unknown in any early deposits. In Great Britain it occurs on all the coasts, except Kincardine, N. Aber- deen, Banff, W. Sutherland, Caithness, Orkneys, and is rare in the Shetlands. Centaury is essentially a maritime species, growing on practically all the coasts of counties in Great Britain where the shore is sandy. But it also occurs inland, and there grows on dry pastures and in sandy fields, often in quarries or pits where exposed r...ocks have produced a suitable sandv soil. 196 FLOWERS OF THE SEA-COAST Centaury is a short, erect plant, repeatedly dividing into two above, with a single stem below, square -stalked, with oblong egg-shaped, lance-shaped leaves, with numerous parallel veins, and smooth, the upper leaves acute. There are numerous radical leaves. The flower is red or pink, with two kinds of style, and borne in a paniclecl corymb of flowers, open in fine weather only. The flowers are nearly stalkless. The calyx, 5 -fid, is less than the corolla, which is tubular, and the flowering stems are repeatedly divided.
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