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No. 41. 



GENTIANA CATESBEI 



English Name— CATESBIAN GENTIAN. 

 French Name — Gentiane de Catesby. 

 German Name — KATESBrs Enzian. 



Officinai- Name — Gentiana Catesbiana- 

 Vulgar Names— Blue Gentian, Southern Gen- 



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titn, Blue-bells, Bitter-root. 



Authorities — Catesby fig , Walter, Elliott, 



Macbride, Bigelow, fig. 34, and Seq. Coxe Disp. 

 ZoHickoffer, &c. 



Genus Gentiana — Calix campanulate four or fire 

 cleft, segments unequaL Corolla with a tubular base, 

 and a variable limb, with four to fifteen lobes or * 

 tteth. Stamina five equal, inserted on the -tube, not 

 exserted. One stipitate Germen oblong, two stigma* 

 sessile or with a style. Capsule 1 celled, 2 valved, 

 many seeded. 



Species G, Catesbei — Stem rough, leaves oppo- 

 site, sessile, ovate lanceolate, subtrinerve, acute, 

 flowers capitate ; calicinal segments longer than the 

 tube : Corolla tubular, ventricose, plaited, with tea 

 teeth, five alterne larger acute, five smaller bifid. 



DESCRIPTION Root perennial, yellowish, 



Wanching, fleshy. Stem simple, erect, cylindric, 

 ^«gb, 1 or 2 feet high. Leaves remote, opposite, 

 ^ttstate, ovate or lanceolate, entire, slightly trinerre, 



