192 Dr Graham's List of Rare Plants. 



cepting at the joints, nearly as great as is represented in the Botanical 

 Cabinet. 



Fritillaria cuprea, 



F. cuprea ; floribus solitariis, segmentis nectario ovato, internis longiori- 

 bus, intus apicem versus parce pilosis ; foliis ovatis, amplexicaulibus, 

 acuminatis, erectis, sparsis, superioribus suboppositis. 



Description — Tuber ovato-orbicular, about the size of a hazel nut, co- 

 vered with decayed reticulated fibres. Stem (15 inches high in the spe- 

 cimen described) erect, glabrous, round, leafy. Leaves (2 inches long, 4 4 

 Knes broad at the base) somewhat glaucous, ovate, acuminate, stem clasp- 

 ing, erect, scattered, excepting the upper pair, w^hich are subopposite, 

 many-nerved, the central nerve stronger, and keeled, in the axil of each 

 leaf are two ovate tubers, diverging a little at the apices, and covered 

 with a yellowish reticulated membrane. Flowers solitary, terminal, cam- 

 panulate, nodding. Perianth of six elliptical copper-coloured segments, 

 in two imbricated verticels, the inner the longest, and having a few 

 harsh spreading hairs on the upper half of the inner surface towards the 

 edges, the centre and the lower half being glabrous. The outer seg- 

 ments of the perianth somewhat pruinose on the outside, all the segments 

 yellow within, and the centre of their upper half with an oblong copper- 

 coloured mark, a little below which, on all the segments, is an ovate, nec- 

 tariferous shallow pit. Stamens 6, about half as long as the inner seg- 

 ments of the perianth ; filaments glabrous, subulate, slightly spreading 

 at the apex ; anthers erect, more than half as long as the filaments ; 

 pollen white, granules minute, shining, oval. Pistil rather shorter than 

 the stamens, triquetrous, with three short, compressed, spreading seg- 

 ments at its apex, along the inside of which are the linear stigmatic 

 surfaces. 



This very graceful little plant flowered in a close greenhouse in the nursery 

 of Mr Cunningham at Comely Bank, Edinburgh, in July 1835. He 

 believes it was imported from Mexico. 



€l^entiana quinqueflora. 



G. quinqueflora ; caule ramoso, alato ; floribus congestis, terminalibus ; 

 calycibus brevissimis, acutis ; corolla clavata, quinquefida, laciniis aris- 

 tatis, fauce nuda ; foliis amplexicaulibus, deltoideo-cordatis, 3-5-ner- 

 viis, 



Gentiana quinqueflora, Pers. Synops. PI. 1. 285 — Schultes, Syst. Veget. 6 



150 Elliott, Bot. of S. Carolina and Georgia, 1. 341 ?—Torrei/, Fl. of 



Mid, and North. Sections of United States, 288 ?^Beck, Bot. of North, 

 and Middle States, 239 ? 

 Gentiana amarilloides, Ptirsh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 1. 186. — Nuttallj Genera, 

 1. 172. 

 Description — Root annual, dichotomously branched. Stem (9-20 inches 

 high) single, erect, square, winged, branched ; branches decussating, spread- 

 ing. Leaves stem -clasping, deltoideo-cordate, glabrous on both sides, palest 

 below, 3-5-nerved, and obscurely reticulate, entire in the margin, slightly 

 .crisped, nerves prominent below. Flowers clustered at the extremity of 

 the stem and branches, generally from three to five together, pedicellate, 

 or, if single, in the axils of the leaves, it is only from the degeneration 

 of the branches, pedicels erect. Calt/x small, green, quinquefid, segments 

 lanceolate, slightly spreading. Corolla (before expansion of the limb, 

 10 lines long, 3 lines in its greatest diameter, in cultivated specimens, in 

 native specimens often smaller,) pale lilac ; tube (74 lines long) clavate ; 

 limb 5 -parted, segments ovate, aristate ; throat naked. Stamens as long 

 as the tube, filaments adhering to the corolla as far as their middle, to 

 which point they slightly enlarge, and then gradually contract upwards, 

 channelled on their inner surface, unconnected with each other; anthers 

 small, leaden-coloured, bursting on their outer surface ; pollen pale, gra« 



