t 43%.) 
ROTACE £. 
GENTIANA PURPUREA. ' PURPLE GENTIAN. 
SYNONYM~A. Curfata. Pharm. Edinb. Gentiana major pur- 
purea. Baub. Pin. 187. Gentiana major flore purpureo. Flor. 
Dan. t. 50. Gentiana corollis campaniformibus verticillatis, foliis 
_ imis petiolatis ellipticis.. Hall, Helv. Gentiana purpurea. Ait. 
Hort, Kew. Facquin. Obf. 2. t. 39. | 
_ Pentandria Digynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 322. 
Gen>Ch. Cor. monopetala. Caps. 2-valvis, 1-locularis: Receptacults 
2, longitudinalibus. 
Sp. Ch. G. corollis fubquinquefidis campanulatis verticillatis, caly- — 
cibus truncatis. 
ROOT perennial, cylindrical, flender, branched; externally 
brown, internally yellowifh. Stem ereét, fimple, fmooth, ftrong, 
fucculent, rifing to a foot in height. Lower leaves nearly elliptical, 
tibbed, entire. Upper leaves in pairs, fheath-like, concave, embracing 
the ftem, pointed, ribbed, enclofing the flowers. - Flowers large, 
purple, ftanding in whorls, upon fhort peduncles. C alyx a deciduous 
fpatha. Corolla bell-fhaped, purplith, plicated, divided at the limb 
into five ovate dotted fegments. Filaments commonly five, of the _ 
length of the germen, and furnithed with conical anthere. Germen 
oblong. Style cleft, points reflexed, furnithed with blunt ftigmata. 
Capfule ovate, two-celled, containing numerous fmall feeds. — 
It is a native of the Alps, and was firft introduced for cultivation 
in this country by Profeffor de Sauflute ih-1768." 882". 
_* See Hort Kew. isp. 320, 
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