GENTIANACEAE. 



VOL. III. 



6. Sabbatia campestris Xutt. Prairie 

 Sabbatia. Fig. 3341. 



Sabbatia campestris Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 

 (II.) 5: 197, 1833-37. 



Stem 4-angled, branched, 6'-i5' high, the 

 branches alternate or dichotomous, or the lowest 

 opposite. Leaves ovate, oblong or lanceolate, 

 mostly obtuse at the apex, sessile or slightly 

 clasping and subcordate at the base, i'-i' long; 

 flowers solitary at the ends of the branches and 

 peduncles, i'-2' broad; peduncles, 1-2' long; 

 calyx 5-ribbed or almost 5-winged, its lobes lan- 

 ceolate, acute, 6"-i2" long, about as long as the 

 obovate lilac corolla-segments, becoming rather 

 rigid in fruit; style 2-cleft; capsule oblong, 3"-4" 

 high. 



On prairies, Missouri and Kansas to Texas. 



7. Sabbatia stellaris Pursh. Sea or Marsh 

 Pink. Fig. 3342. 



Sabbatia stellaris Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i : 137. 1814. 

 Chironia stellata Muhl. Cat. Ed. 2, 23. 1818. 



Stem nearly terete, or slightly 4-angled, usually 

 much branched, 6'-2 high, the branches alternate. 

 Leaves lanceolate-oblong to linear, sessile, i'-2' 

 long, 2"-5" wide, or the lowest smaller, some- 

 what obovate and obtuse, the uppermost narrowly 

 linear and bract-like ; flowers 9"-! 8" broad, usu- 

 ally numerous, solitary at the ends of the branches 

 or slender peduncles ; calyx not ribbed, its lobes 

 narrowly linear, shorter than or nearly equalling 

 the oblong or obovate corolla-segments; corolla 

 pink to white with a yellowish starry eye bor- 

 dered with red ; style 2-cleft to below the middle ; 

 capsule about 2\" high. 



In salt-meadows, coast of Massachusetts to Flor- 

 ida. Recorded from Maine. Called also Rose-of- 

 Ply mouth. July-Sept. 



8. Sabbatia Elliottii Steud. Elliott's 

 Sabbatia. Fig. 3343. 



Swertla difformis L. Sp. PI. 226. 1753? 



Sabbatia paniculata Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. i : 282. 

 1817. Not Pursh, 1814. 



S. Elliottii Steud. Nomencl. Ed. 2, 2 : 489. 1841. 



_ Stem paniculately branched, terete or slightly 

 ridged, i-2 high, the branches alternate. 

 Lower leaves obovate or lanceolate-oblong, 

 obtuse, 6"-9" long, the upper and those of the 

 branches narrowly linear or subulate; flowers 

 very numerous, white, solitary at the ends of 

 the branches and short peduncles, i' broad or 

 less; calyx not ribbed, its lobes subulate-linear, 

 one-half as long as the spatulate or oblanceo- 

 late segments of the corolla, or less; style 

 2-parted; capsule about 2\" high. 



In pine-barrens, Virginia and North Carolina to 

 Florida. Quinine-flower. July-Sept. 



