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UO GENTIANA. No. 41. 



Gentian. Differs from the former by oval lanceolate 

 leaves^ stem round with four small angles, flowers 

 axillary and terminal, yellowish, calix longer foliace- 

 ous. — In Kentucky, Illinois^ &c. Equal to the former. 

 Annual. 



3. G. Crinita Wild, Fringed Gentian* Easily 

 inown by its lanceolate leaves, large solitary flowers 

 on long peduncles with a fringed four cleft corolla, 

 5cc. — ^An elegant species found from New Yort to 

 Carolina. Perennial like all the followin?. 



4. G. Saponaria Lin. Soap Gentian. Leaves 

 oval lanceolate, acute, trinerve, flowers verticillate, 

 sessile; calix with short oval segments: corolla ob- 

 long, with ten teeth, the interior unequally trifid. 

 Common from New England to Virginia, medical. 



5. G. Clausa Raf. Closed Gentian. Stem round 

 smooth, leaves o-yate lanceolate, acuminate, subtri- 

 nerv'e: flowers' verticillate, sessile 5 calix four to six cleft 

 angular, segments foliaceous short : Corolla clavate, 

 short, closed S-IQ teeth, internal teeth equally bilobe. 

 On the Taconick and Green mountains, flowers blue, 

 half the size of G. Saponaria and quite shut. Variety 

 with ternate lanceolate leaves. 



6. G. Angusttfolia Michaux. Narrow leaved G. 

 Stem simple, slender, one flowered, leaves narrovt 

 linear spreading: Corolla funnel shaped ten cleft, 

 with five internal lacerate segments, — Rare, beautiful , 

 large flowers, in New Jersey, Carolina, &c. 



7. ff. Linearis Willd. Linear G. Stem rough, 

 icaves linear lanceolate, undulate, ciliatej flowers ca- 

 pitate, sessile. Corolla campanulate five cleft, with 



