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GENTIANA QUINQUEFLORA. FIVE-FLOWERED 
GENTIAN. 
KERR EE EERE EE EEE 
Class and Order. 
Pentanpria DieGynta. 
( Nat. Ord. —GeEntTIANEA. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx 4—5-fida. Corolla subcampanulata, infundibuli- 
formis vel hypocrateriformis, basi tubulosa, gland. nect. 
destit. Styli sepe coherentes. Capsula 1-locularis, 2-valvula. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
GenTrIana quinqueflora; caule ramoso tetragono-alato ; flo- 
ribus congestis terminalibus ; calycibus brevissimis, 
acutis; corolla clavata, quinquefida, laciniis aristatis, 
fauce nuda; foliis amplexicanlibus deltcideo-cordatis 
3—5)-nerviis. 
GenTIANA quinqueflora. Pers. Synops. Plant. 1. 285. 
Schultes Syst. Veget. 6.150. lliott, Bot. of S. Caro- 
lina et Georgia, v. 1. p. 341? Torrey, Fl. of Mid. et 
North Sections of United States, p.288? Beck, Bot. 
of North and Mid. States, 239 ? 
GentiAna amarelloides. Pursh, Fl. Amer. Septent. v. 1. p. 
186. Nuttall Genera, 1. 172. 
This very pretty annual was raised at the Botanic Gar- 
den, Edinburgh, from seeds sent without name by Mr. 
Tuomas Cuurnsipe, Nurseryman, of New York ; and flow- 
ered in the greenhouse in the end of October. It was seen 
by Mr. James M‘Nap growing on the grassy banks of 
streams among the Alleghany Mountains, and his native 
specimens differ in no respect from those raised at the 
garden, excepting in having smaller flowers. One which I 
have from the collection of Mr. Beyricn, gathered on the 
Peaks of Otter, has flowers as large as the garden specimens. 
From the synonyms I have excluded GentiAna quinque- 
folia of Flora Danica, because, in the plant figured there, 
the leaves are ovate, the flowers axillary as well as terminal 
and much smaller, and because the identity of an Iceland 
and Virginian plant seems unlikely. I have likewise ex- 
cluded 
