GENTIANACEAE 1049 
SABBATIA Adans. Annual or s dug ee pd herbs. Flowers 
solitary or in cymes. Calyx-lobes 4-12, narrow. Corolla white, or pink to 
lilae, or magenta, often with a distinct d rotate: m Bre. longer than 
the tube.—About 20 species, North Ameri 
Calyx-lobes and corolla-lobes usually 4 or 5. I. ANGULARES. 
Calyx-lobes and corolla-lobes 8-12. II. DODECANDRES. 
I. ANGULARES 
Upper part of the stem id opposite bs 
Stem and branches teret 
Ca ly 2 -Jobes shorter than the tube, erect: style and stig- 
about equal in length. 1. S. macrophylla, 
Calyx-lobes longer than a tube, recurved : style much 
E CUR man the r 2. S. recurvans. 
Corolla-lobes s elliptic io cR s ‘upper leaves with 
Corolla White 
Leaf- blades rounded at the base. 3. S. difformis. 
Leaf-blades truncate and somewhat auricled at 
E Bou se, 4. S. paniculata. 
Corol 5. S. brachiata. 
Corollarlobes pem to obovate: upper leaves with broad 
6. S. angularis. 
Upper part P" the stem with alternate bran 
Corolla-lobes of a spatulate or A type. 
C n obes foliaceous, mostly broadened upward. - 7. S. calycina. 
Calyx-lobes nos foliaceous, narrowed u upward. 8. S. Elliott. 
Corolla-lobes of an elliptic or oval t 
Cal ed a typically about as don. as the corolla-lobes : 
rolla inly less than 3 cm. broad. 9. S. campanulata. 
Gaire obes  EvPicall y much shorter than the corolla- 
lobes: corolla mainly over 3.5 cm. broad.. 10. S. grandiflora, 
II. Dop 
SOAU elliptic-spatulate to oblanceolate, pee ium 25 mm. 
usually acutish at the 
Cal uu “lobes acct shorter than tne rolla 
Calyx-lobes linear or slightly Sarum ed upward. 11. S: dodecandra. 
Cal A es linear-spatulate. 12. e Harperi. 
Calyx-lobes as long as the corolla or nearly so. 13. S. foliosa. 
in lobes asma. spatulate, over 25 mm. long, usually 
ed at the tip. 14. S. decandra. 
1. S. macrophylla Hook. Stem 6-10 dm. tall: blades of the upper leaves 
elliptie to elliptie- danceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 2-6 em. long, acute: calyx 2-3 
mm. long; lobes shor han the tube: 
corolla white; lobes 6.8 mm. long: capsule 
—4 mm. long.—Wet pos or acid DES 
Coastal Plain, Fla. to La. and Ga.—Sum 
2. S. recurvans Small Similar to S. 
macrophylla in habit: calyx 4-5 mm. long; 
lobes longer than the tube: eorolla white; 
om eapsule 3.5—4.5 
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ong.—Low or moist Duc Coastal 
Plain, Fla. and Ga.—Sum 
is (L.) Druee. Stem 4-9 dm. 
M " Blades ger the upper leaves dpa to 
lanceolate or pd lanceolate, 1—4 cm. long, 
apieulate or aeu ca 7-9.5 m s ng; 
lobes mueh epus than the tube: a white, drying I lobes yii 
mm. long: eapsule 5-6 mm. long. [S. lanceolata (Walt.) T. & e J]— b. 
B 
lands, and acid bogs, Coastal Plain, Fla. to Tenn. and N. J —BSpr.-s 
