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GENTIANA PNEUMONANTHE, var. GUTTATA. 
SPOTTED-FLOWERED CALATHIAN VIOLET. ° 
Cla/s and Order. 
PENTANDRIA DiIGYNIA, 
Generic Charaéer. 
Cor. bafi tubulofa ; poris ne@tariferis deftituta. Cap/. fupera, 
1-locularis, bivalvis, polyfperma. Sm. ; 
Specific Charaéer and Synonyms. 
GENTIANA Pxeumonanthe; corollis campanulatis quinque- 
fidis, floribus pedunculatis terminalibus axil- 
laribufque, foliis fublinearibus obtufis, 
GENTIANA Puxeumonanthe. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. 1336. Mart. 
Mill. Did. n. 11. 
y gutiata ; caule decumbente, foliis ovato-lanceolatis obtufis, 
laciniis corolla intus guttatis. 
GENTIANA Pneumonanthe. Pallas Flora Roff. pars 2. p.1058? 
ees 
_ The Gentrana Pneumonanthe is fabje€&t to vary very much 
In the width of its leaves, number and fize of its flowers, and 
eight and ftrength of its tem. Frequently it is a low plant with 
aftraight ftem, bearing © fingle, or a fecond flower at the fummit; 
Ometimes it is feen with a ftem a foot and half high with numer- 
Sus flowers, both terminal and lateral, the latter growing two 
or three together in the axil of the fame leaf. Our plant has a 
Weak ftem, hardly able to fupport the flowers, which are of the 
Seft fize, and at firft fight feem remarkably different from the 
_ ‘Wual appearance of G. Puenmonanthe, particularly on account 
of the white fpecks within the fegments of the corollas; yet we 
can find no fpecific chara@ters by which it may be diftinguifhed 
om all the varieties defcribed by authors, even the dots are 
~*h not wanting in the other varieties, though coe 
