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GENTIANA SEPTEMFIDA, var. (@). SPOTTED- 
FLOWERED CRESTED GENTIAN. 
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Clafs and Order. 
PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Generic Chara@er. 
Cal. 1-petala. Capf. 2-valvis, 1-locularis: receptaculis 2, 
longitudinalibus, 
Specific Charaéler and Synonyms.—Vid. N*. 1229, 
Synonimis ibi citatis adde 
GENTIANA /eptemfida. Bicberft. Fl. taurico-cauc. 1. p. 195- 
Hort. Kew. edit, 2. VU. 2. p. 110. 
(«.) limbo corolla impun@tato. Supra No, 1229. 
(8.) limbo corolla punétato. 
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The plant here figured has wider leaves than the one given 
at No. 1229; the gores of the corolla are more finely cut, and 
the limb is {potted with white: circumftances probably owing 
altogether to cultivation. We fhould not, therefore, have 
thought this variety of fufficient importance to have given a 
_ feparate figure of it; but that, for want of more early attention, 
the whole impreffion was coloured under an idea of its being 
another fpecies, which we have not yet been fortunate enough 
to meet with. 
The fpotted-flowered variety of Gentrana Pacumonanthe, 
No. 1101, is probably alfo the effeé&t of cultivation, and not 
really different from our indigenous {pecies. The two plants 
mutually illuftrate each other. 
The name of /eptemfida is a very improper one; a corolla 
with feven laciniz being a very rare occurrence; BirBer- 
_ STEIN obferves that out of many thoufands, he could not meet 
_ With a fingle one: the ufual number is five. 
Our plant was communicated by Meffrs. Lopptces, with 
= — no fpecies of Gentian thrives better or flowers more 
reely, 
