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GENTIANA VERNA. VERNAL GENTIAN. 
JHE HSER Hii ibibiei aie ise 
Clafs and Order. 
PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Generic Charafer. 
Cor. 1-petala. Cup/. 2-valvis, 1-locularis: Receptaculis 2, lon- 
gitudinalibus. 3 
Specific Charagter and Synonyms. 
GENTIANA verna, corolla quinquefida infundibuliformi cau- 
_ lem excedente, foliis radicalibus confertis majo- 
ribus. Linn. Spec. Pl. p. 331. ; : 
GENTIANA VI. Clu. Rar. Plant. Hif. Lib. U1. p. 315. 
GENTIANA verna. Smith. Flor. Brit. v. 1. p. 285. «Ene 
- glifo Botany, p. 493. 
coat 
This elegant hardy perennial, a native of the Alps of Switzer- 
land, Auftria, and the Pyrennees, hath, as we are informed 
by Dr. Smita, in his Flora Britannica, been difcovered by 
Mr. Heaton, on the mountains between Gort and Gallway, 
in Ireland; and in Teefdale-Foreft, Durham, by the Rev. 
Mr. Harriman, and Mr. Otiver. 
_Its flowers have a very agreeable fcent, and will decorate 
either the open border or rock-work ; they appear in April 
or May, and may be brought forward at leaft fix weeks earlier, 
by being placed in the greenhoufe. : = 
It fucceeds well in a mixture of peat-earth and loam. a 
The plant from which this figure was.made, flowered this — 
{pring at the Botanic-Garden, at Brompton, ea 
