Gent i an a ochroleuca has a -near affinity with G.faponar/a t 

 from which however it differs not only in the colour of the 

 corolla, which is white with green veins, but this part is alfo 

 longer, fharper pointed, and n ds the alternate lacinise fhorter 

 and quite entire, not fringed as in Saponaria ,• the fegments of 

 the calyx are more fpreading and acute ; the anthers are diftinct, 

 not united at the apex; leaves narrower and lefs evidently three- 

 nerved. The flowers, in all the fpecimens we have feen, are 

 crowded together at the extremity of the Item, and have none 

 growing from the axils of the leaves, as reprefented in 

 Plukenet's figure above quoted, and in our G. Saponaria 

 (No. 1039). After all, thefe two plants approach too near to 

 each other. 



The Gentian a Saponaria of Walter certainly belongs to 

 this fpecies, as does probably that of Michaux, though the 

 defcription by the latter does not quite accord ; and it feems 

 not very probable that this author mould have overlooked the 

 true Saponaria, which is faid to be by much the mod common. 



If Gentian a villo/a of Linn & us be really the fame as 

 our plant, which can hardly be doubted, this name has the 

 right of priority ; but that of ochroleuca is now fo well eftablifhed 

 by frequent repetition, that it cannot well be changed. It is 

 better therefore to drop the name oivillofa; which may be done 

 with the lefs regret, as, in its cultivated ftate at leaft, U 

 pofleffes no villofity whatever. 



Mr. Pursh defcribes the corolla of our plant as yellowifo 

 green on the outfide, and blue flriped with purple within. 

 We have never obferved the colour of the infide to differ 

 from the outer ; but when growing in a dry foil, expofed to a 

 hot fun, thefe colours may appear, though they do not under 

 other circumftances. 



Introduced into the Kew Oardeno, according to Mr. AitoNj 

 in 1803. Native of North- America : growing, according to 

 Mr. Pursh, from Pennfylvania to Florida, but not fo com- 

 mon as G. Saponaria, on dry fandy fields and gravelly hills : 

 Michaux gives the herbage of woods as the native fituauon 

 of his plant. 



Flowers in September. Communicated to us by MeHrs* 

 Loddiges and Sons, Hackney, 



