28G PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. gentiana. 



liatte or entire, spreading, erect, or connivent. Sta- 

 mens included. Styles 0, or very short ; stigmas 2. 

 Capsule 1 -celled, 2-valved ; receptacles 2, longitudinal. 

 Ge72.pL 450. A^utt. Gen. I. p. 71. Juss, p. 141. 

 Lam. ///. t.CIX. Ro em. ^ S c hult. GV«. 1113. 

 Nat. Ord. Gentians Juss, Gentian. 



\. G. Saponaria L't leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, 3- 

 nerved ; flowers verticillate-capitate, sessile; corolla ventri- 

 cose, closed, 10-cleft; interior segments unequally 2 — S-cleft, 

 as long as the exterior ones ; segments of the calyx ovate, 

 shorter than the tube. Willd. Spec. I. p. 1138. Bot. 

 Mag. t. 10.39. Pursk Fl.Up, 185. excl. syn. fV a It. et 

 Caiesb. Bi g. Bost. p. 6i. E Hi o 1 1 Sk. l. p. 339. 

 Bart. Fl. Am. Sept. III. t. 79. Roem.kSchul t. VL 

 p. 148. G. autumnalis prima. Cold. J^oveb. ^9. 



Root perennial. S(etn a foot and a half high, erect, simple, 

 smooth. Leaves opposite, closely sessile, very smooth, with a 

 large, principally in a terminal verticillate fascicle; the 

 distinct nerve on each side near the margin. Flowers very 

 lateral flowers axillary and solitary. Calyx 5-cleft, with the 

 segments broad-ovate or oblong, acute, shorter than the tube. 

 Corolla bright-blue, ventricose-campanulate, marcescent ; seg- 

 ments connivent ; exterior ones very obtuse, entire ; interior 

 ones plicate, lacerately 2 — 3-toothed. Stamens 5 ; Jilaments 

 inserted into the tube of the corolla, broad ; anthers erect, sa- 

 gittate. Stigmas rcflexed. Ca/isule oblong, acuminate, at- 

 tenuate at the base, covered with the marcescent corolla. 

 Seeds very numerous, with winged margins. 



Hab. In wet grassy meadows, and in moist woods. Septem- 

 ber — October. 



2. G. ochroleuca F ro eL : stem subangular ; leaves 

 ovat J -lanceolate ; flowers in terminal subsessile fascicles j, 

 segments of the calyx linear- lanceolate; corolla campanulate- 

 ventricose, 10 cleft; segments acute, slightly connivent; in- 

 terior ones subdentate, short. Willd. Spec. L p. 1358> 

 Bot. Meg. t. 155]. PurshFl.l.p.185. Elliott Sk. 

 1. p. 340 .^ Roem. ^r S c A m / ^ VI. p. 1 49. G. Saponaria 

 Walt. Car. p. 109. Mich. Fl. I. p. 176. G. villosa L. 

 fide P ur s h. 



Root perennial. Stc7n about afoot high, a little scabrous. Leaves 

 acute, indistinctly 3-nerved, scabrous on the margin. Ter- 

 minal ^o^yers crowded ; lateral ones solitary, axillary. Calyx 

 5-cleft ; segments longer than the tube, acute. Corolla as large 

 as in G. Safionaria, yellowish-white, streaked with green and 

 purple ; exterior segments ovate ; interior ones nearly entire^ 

 acute. Catitule ovate-oblong, acute. 



