Gextiana barbata, and different from ciliata. The true 

 Gentiana ciliata, native of the South of Europe, is probably 

 not to be found in America at all ; our present plant is indi- 

 genous to North-America, from New-York to Carolina. The 

 flowers are considerably larger than those of barbata, of a 

 fine sky-blue, and the petals are covered along the whole 

 margin with a beautiful waving fringe, 



A hardy perennial. Flowers in August and September. 

 Propagated by seeds or parting its roots. Introduced in 1804. 



We know of no representation of this plant but the one 

 done from very imperfect seedling specimens with one flower, 

 in the Botanist's Repository, which we should hardly have 

 taken for the same plant, had it not been quoted by Pursh. 



