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Gentiana Septemfida. Crested 

 Gentian. 



C//{/> #»i Order. 

 Pentandria Digynia. 



Generic Cbara&er. 



Cor. i-peiala. Cap/. 2-vaIvis, l-locularis: Receptaculis 2, 

 iongitudinalibus. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



GENTIANA fepte?nfida ,♦ corollis hypocrateriformibus 5 — 7- 



fidis : laciniis intercalaribus laceris, foliis cm- 



ciatis trinerviis. 

 GENTIANA feptemfida ; corollis campanulatis fepremfidis 



quinqueHdifque, laciniis intermediis ciliatis. 



Froelich Gent. p. 47. n. 16. Wdld. Sp. PL 1333. 

 GENTIANA 'feptemfida ; corollis feptemfidis quinquefidifque, 



laciniis intercalaribus ciliatis. Pall. PL Rofs. 2. 



p. 101. /. 92. /. 3. 



Descr. Stems crcEl, rounded, fimplc, herbaceous, fmootb, 

 Jfi our fpecimens only fix or eight inches high, but reaching 

 *n its native foil, according to Pallas, to nearly a foot and 

 half, leaves oppofite and croffed, crowded, ovate-lanceolate, 

 three-nerved, fmooth, paler underneath. Flowers terminal, 

 *-— 6, feffile. Calyx tubular, truncated, obfoletely angular: 

 angles continued into awl-fhaped teeth the length of the tube 

 ■°f the calyx. Corolla bell-fhaped : tube nearly cylindrical, 

 fomewhat dilated upwards, of a greenifh brown colour on the 

 putfide, fpotted within : limb flat, for the molt part divided 

 into five, fometimes fix, and rarely feven ovate acute lacinia?, 

 of a beautiful blue on the infide, with fmallcr laciniae between 

 e ach, erect, fringed, of the fame colour, and continued down 



the 



