1923] Fernald,—A Gentian of Shores of the St. Lawrence 87 
Riviére-du-Loup eastward." But, since the tide extends with con- 
siderable strength to the outlet of Lake St. Peter, it is probable that 
its western limit is well beyond Cap Rouge. It may also have a 
more extended eastern range, but in several seasons at Riviére-du- 
Loup and at Bic the present writer has never met the plant. 
The great interest of the new species, in connection with the 
European G. ciliata, lies in the fact that the small and unbranched 
specimens of Brother Victorin's material laid upon sheets of G.. 
ciliata are quite indistinguishable from it until the technical details 
are examined. The technical differences are numerous: G. ciliata 
being a perennial with creeping rhizomes, the Quebec plant annual 
or biennial; and G. ciliata having the calyx less deeply cleft and the 
corolla-lobes strongly fimbriate on the lower margins, the Quebec 
plant having the lobes with only short marginal teeth. "The superficial 
resemblance of the two is so striking, however, that it would seem as 
if we at last know what plant of Canada led Linnaeus to cite his 
G. ciliata from “ Helvetiae, Italiae, Canadae montibus." In August, 
1749, Pehr Kalm botanized extensively about Quebec,—from Trois 
Riviéres on the west to Les Eboullement on the east, thus covering 
the whole range of the gentian of the tidal shores. It seems wholly 
probable, in fact almost inevitable, that this pupil of Linnaeus should 
have found the gentian, which flowers in August, and that Linnaeus, 
identifying it with the plant of the mountains of Switzerland and 
Italy assigned it a mountain habitat in Canada as well. 
This endemic plant of the St. Lawrence should be called: 
GENTIANA (CROSSOPETALAE) Victorinii, n. sp.  Biennis; caule 
simplici vel cum ramis valde ascendentibus instructo 3—4 dm. alto 
glabro 4-angulato; foliis imis rosulatis spathulatis brevibus, mediis 
superioribusque 4-9-jugis lineari-lanceolatis acutis vel acutiusculis 
paulo carnosis 2-5.5 cm. longis 2-6 mm. latis; pedunculis 2-9 cm. 
longis; calycibus herbaceis inequaliter ad mediam 4-lobatis, lobis apice 
subulato-acuminatis longioribus lanceolatis 0.6-1.5 cm. longis, 
brevioribus ovatis 0.45-1.2 cm. longis, carinis glabris vel vix granu- 
losis; corollis azureis 2-4 cm. longis ad mediam partem 4-lobatis, 
lobis oblongo-obovatis obscure venosis valde ascendentibus apice 
rotundato interdum etiam marginibus dentatis vel lacerato-fimbriatis ; 
filamentis alatis eciliatis; ovario stipitato, stipite cirea 5 mm. longo, 
stylo circa 2 mm. longo; capsula corolla breviore subsessile; seminibus 
valde papillosis. 
Biennial: stem simple or with strongly ascending branches, 1-4 
dm. high, glabrous, 4-angled: leaves 4-9 pairs below the primary 
peduncle; the lower spatulate; the middle and upper linear-lanceolate, 
