( 23G3 ) 



Gentiana intermedia. Intermediate 

 Gentian. 



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CkM.s and Order. 



Pentandria DieYMA. 



(ieftcr iv Character., 



Cor l-petalu. Caps. 2-vatvjs, 1-ioculuris: R<?ceptticuli$ 

 2, longitudinalibus. 



Specific Character and Synonym*. 



Gentiana intermedia; foliis obovato-oblongis trinerviis, 

 floribus terminalibus aggregate, calycibus foliaceis 

 inaequalibus, corollis ventricosis quinquefidis inapertis: 

 plicis interioribus subsimplicibus. 



Gentiana ochroleuca. Pursh FL Amer. Sept. 1. p. 185 ? 



Gentiana Saponaria. Michaux Flor. Bor. Amer. I. p. 176? 



Descr. Whole plant quite smooth. Leaves oblong- 

 obovate, quite entire, obsoletely 3-nerved. Flowers in a 

 terminal few -flowered head, and lateral on very short 

 branches bearing from one to three flowers, but never truly 

 verticillate. Calyx five-cleft : segments very unequal, 

 foliaceous, one sometimes even longer than the corolla. 

 Corolla barrel-shaped, segments acute : inner foldg simple 

 or sometimes bifid. Colour externally whitish-green, chang- 

 ing more or less to violet, internally streaked with violet. 

 Stamens and germen only half the length of the corolla : 

 filaments two-edged : anthers distinct. Stigmas finally 

 spreading and revolute. Both calyx and corolla are now 

 a "d then six-cleft. The taste of the leaves is bitter like 

 roost or all of the genus. 



Gentiana Saponaria, Cmtezbm, ochroleuca, ami inler- 

 wrrfio have a ve.rv near affinity, and yet all have some 



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