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Gentiana connectens n. sp. 



Stem slender, rather lax, 4-6 dm. high, with scattered branches; 

 leaves oblanceolate, the uppermost smaller, linear-lanceolate; Mowers 

 1-3 at the ends of the branches, borne 'on slender filiform pedicels of 

 twice or even thrice their length; calyx narrowly campanulate, 1 cm. 

 long 1 , its tube very short, its lobes linear-acuminate; corolla twice the 

 length of the -calyx, violet-purple, with 5 erect ovate-lanceolate lobes 

 destitute of sinus-plaits; throat crowned with numerous filiform setae; 

 anthers versatile; ovary markedly stipitate; stigmas 2, coherent at base; 

 capsule with numerous oblong brown seeds. 



Type in U. S. National Herbarium, No. 22,045, collected by Thomas 

 Bridges in California (No. 166a). No more specific locality than this 

 appears on any of Bridges' labels. The name assigned to this gentain 

 refers to the fact that it combines certain characters of the two main 

 subgeneric groups; thus it possesses the crown of setae, stipitate ovary 

 and absence of corolla-glands indicative of Gentianella; but the lobes of 

 the corolla are five in number, as in Pneumonanthe, which it also sug 

 gests in habit. 



Gentiana decora n. sp. 



Stem simple, or with one or two short branches above, 3 dm. or more 

 high, sparsely and minutely puberulent: leaves lanceolate or the low r er 

 oblanceolate, tapering to base. and apex, slightly petioled, the margins 

 not ciliate; flowers sessile, in a terminal bracted cluster of five or more, 

 a few often scattered in the upper axils; calyx-tube cylindrical, puberu 

 lent, 8-10 mm. long, more than twice the length of the widely separated 

 narrowly linear and ciliate-margined lobes; corolla campanulate-funnel- 

 form, 2|-3 cm. long, bright blue with darker stripes, within paler and 

 the stripes more conspicuous; lobes of the corolla ovate, slightly mucro- 

 nate, scarcely twice the length of the unequally bidentate sinus-appen 

 dages: seeds and other floral characters as in (i. Elliottii. 



Type in the herbarium of Columbia University, collected by Mr. A. 

 M. Huger near Waynesville, N. C., September and October, 1896. Spec 

 imens of this and other southern gentians were very kindly sent to me 

 for determination by Dr. John K. Small. The species is very nearly re 

 lated to G. Elliottii, but differs in the more acute corolla-lobes, the ab 

 sence of fimbriation on the sinus-plaits of the corolla, and the short, 

 narro,\v calyx-lobes. 



Chrysopsis latisquamea n. sp. 



Perennial by offshoots, erect, 4-5 dm. high, the foliage and lower por 

 tion of the stem clothed with a loose white arachnoid tomentum; basal 

 leaves rosulate, oblanceolate or spatulate, obtuse, the margins entire; 

 stem leaves sessile, linear or linear-oblong, the upper becoming small and 

 bract-like; inflorescence cymose, the branches glandular-pubescent, 

 each terminated by a single large head H cm. high; involucre broadly 



