"27 f 2 (iKXTIAN FAMILY. 



2. FRASERA, AMERICAN COLUMBO. (Named for John Fmser.) 



F. Carolinensis. Rich wooded ground \V. & S. : mot very large and 

 deep, liittor (u>ed in medicine as a Mili-titute for Columbo) ; stem 3 -8 high , 

 |ea\e> mostly in fours, lance-oblong, or the lowest >patulate ; corolla 1' wide, 

 greenish-yellow or whitish, and dark-dotted. ',;; ~^. 



3. GENTIANA, GENTIAN. (Old name, from Genttus, king of Illyria.) 

 Chiefly in woods and damp ground : flowering chiefly in autumn, a few in 

 summer. 



1. Corolla without plaits at the sinuses : anthers separate: seeds wine/less. 



G. QUinquefl6ra. Chiefly N. <& W. : l)ranching ; leaves ovate-lanceolate 

 or sli-htlv heart-.shaped at base"; flowers panic! ed, hardly 1'long, the 5 lobes 

 of the pale blue corolla triangular-ovate, bristle-pointed. 



G. crinita, FKINGEU GEXTIAN. Low -rounds X. & W. : leaves lanceo- 

 late or broader, with rounded or heart-shaped base; flowers solitary on long 

 peduncles terminating the stem or simple branches ; calyx with 4 unequal 

 lobes; corolla sky-blue, showy, 2' long, funnel-form, the 4 wedge-obovate lobes 

 with margins cut into a IOIIL; and delicate fringe. 



G. detonsa, takes the place of the preceding species N. W , and is perhaps 

 a variety of it : has linear leaves and less fringe to the corolla (to which the 

 name alludes), often none at the top of the lobes. 



2. Corolla naked, l^'-2' long, with plaits at tit? sinuses, which project more or 

 less into teeth or t/iin intermediate lobes : ]x>d stalked in the corolla. 2 



* Steins low, bearing 1-3 slender-peduncled flowers : seeds wingless. 



G. angUStifolia. Pine barrens from N. Jersey S. : 6' - 15' high, with 

 linear leaves, and open funnel-form azure-blue corolla 2' long, its lobes ovate ; 

 anthers >cparate. 



* * Steins 1 - 2 high, bearing clustered or rarely solitary 2-bracted flowers at the 

 summit of the Itufy stem, mid nj'l< n in the upper tuvi'j also. 



*- Corolla between bell-shaped and short-funnel-form or obconical, mostly open, with 

 ovate lobes exceeding the usually tool/ml appendages <>fthi' p!ni/x. 



G. OChroleuca. Chiefly S. in dry ground : leaves obovatc or spatulate- 

 oblong, narrowed at the base; calyx-lodes linear ; corolla greenish-white with 

 greener and purplish .stripes inside, somewhat bell-shaped ; anthers separate ; 

 seeds wingless. 



G. alba. Along the Alleghanies and N W. : flowering at midsummer; 

 |ea\es lance-ovate from a partly heart-shaped base, tapering thence to a point ; 

 c.ilyx-lobe- ovate, short; corolla yellowish-white, with short and broad lobes; 

 anthers conniving; seeds broadly winged. 



G. pub6l*ula. Dry barrens and prairies W. ,<: S. : low, ronghish, or 

 minutely pubescent, with lance-oblong, ovate, or linear rough-margined leaves 

 only 1 -2' long; calyx-lobes lanceolate; corolla bright blue, open, its spreading 

 ovate lobes '2 or .'( times longer than the cut-toothed intermediate appendages; 

 seeds not covering the walls of the pod, as thev do in the related species. 



G. Sapoiiaria, SOAPWOKT G. Low woods, chiefly N. and along the 

 Alleghanies; leaves lance-ovate, oblong, or obovate, or in a northern variety 

 linear, narrowed at ba-e ; ealvx-lobes linear or spatulatc ; corolla light blue or 

 verging to white, little open, its short and broad lobes longer than the con- 

 spicuous 2-clet't intermediate appendages ; anthers conniving or united; seeds 

 narrowly-winged. 



*- - Corolla more club-shaped and seldom open, tmnrnti', u-ith no proper lobes. 



Q. Andr^WSii, CLOSED <;. Woods especially N. : leaves lance-ovate or 



lance-oblong with a narrowed base ; calyx-lobes ovate or oblong. >hort ; corolla 

 blue (rarely a white varietv), its proper lobes if any shorter than the broad and 

 more conspicuous fringe-toothed and notched appendages which terminate tho 

 folds ; anthers connected , seeds broadly winded. 



