GENTIANA LUTEA. 
celled by the introflexed placente. Style united into one, 
or wanting. Stigma one — two. 
Frurr. Capsule many-seeded. 
Seeps. Small. Embryo straight, with fleshy albumen. 
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Tue Seconpary CHaRAcTErRs. 
Gentiana. Calyx five —four-parted or cleft. Corolla mar- 
cescent, tubular at base. Limb four —five-parted. Segments 
either spreading, erect, or convergent, often furnished with 
intermediate, plicate folds. Stamens five —four, inserted in 
the corolla tube. Stigmas two, revolute or erect. Style short 
or wanting. Capsule two-valved, one-celled, many-seeded. 
Calyx four or five-cleft. Corolla with a tubular base, bell-form, without pores, 
four or five-cleft. Stigmas two, sub-sessile. Capsule one- celled, oblong. Colu 
two, longitudinal. Stamens but four when the divisions of corolla are four. 
Tue Spreciric CHARACTERS. 
GenTiana Lutes. Sfem tall, straight. Leaves oval and 
ovate, margin smooth. Cymes umbellate, dense-flowered, 
pedunculate, axillary and terminal. Corolla yellow, rotate. 
Segments oblong-linear, acuminate, spreading without folds. 
Leaves broad-ovate, nerved. Corollus about five-cleft, wheel-form, whorled. 
Tue Artiricia, CHARACTERS. 
Crass Penranpria. Stamens five. Orper Dicynta. Mo- 
nopetalous. Stamens inserted on corolla. Leaves opposite. 
Juice watery. Capsule one-celled. 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
GeEnTIAN is said to owe its name and introduction into 
medical use to Gentius, King of Illyria, who was vanquished 
__ by the Romans more than one hundred and fifty years before 
a Christ. It is, therefore, not noticed by either Hippocrates or 
_ Theophrastus, but is mentioned by Dioscorides and by Pliny. 
a be Genrran is among the most remarkable of the 
| species which compose this genus, both for its beauty and 
_ great comparative size. It is a perennial plant found growing — 
o on the Alps of Switzerland and Austria, the Apennines, the 
Pyrenees, and other mountainous or elevated regions of Eu- 
Th Switzerland — Germany it occupies extensive 
shed by any cattle. Saha sternal 
