90 KEOBOT. 



by Ware in 1821, Stem 2 or 3 inches high, 

 leaves half inch long, head large, flowers green- 

 ish. I have a var of F. lutea near tills same 

 size and habit, but with few leaves narrower, 

 heads depressed, flowers reaiy bright yellow, 

 wings broader obovate acuminate: it will be 

 my var paiicifolia, and they all evince a ten- 

 dency to deviate from /'. luUa. 

 GENTIANIDES. 



This lovely family of plants wa<^ in utter con- 

 fusion, as I have proved in rectifying it, in fl. 

 tellur. 435 to 500, where many N. (j. and sp. 

 are established. I have also restored the G, 

 Anthop "gon, Pneimionanthe, Dasistepha, Ci- 

 minalis,Cicendia, Tretorhiza &.c of former bo- 

 tanists, neglected by the linnean blenders. I 

 there gave also some new N. Amer. sp. and I 

 still mean to give hereafter their complete mo- 

 nograph, our species have been increased late- 

 ly by myself and Hooker to 50 or 60, while 

 Linneus had only half a dozen of this continent. 

 I now must merely add some other interesting 

 novelties. 



970. Antiiopogon incarnatum Raf. Genti- 

 ana purpurea Muhl. fl. lancastr. Coll, herb, stem 

 humble branched, branches compressed sub4- 

 gone uniflore, leaves lanceolate, acute, lower 

 subcuneate, calix4gone, segments ovate lanceol. 

 acum, margin colored, 2 alt. narrower, corolla 

 ciliate twice as long — another beautiful sp. of 

 this fine G. discovered by Muhlenberg since 1790, 

 found by myself in the Alleghanies 1804, since 

 omitted or mistaken for a variety by our botan- 

 ists (myself included) but now restored and fix- 

 ed, only 6 to 10 inches high, with several erect 

 branches, leaves uncial, narrower than in A. 

 crinitum, broader than in A. virgatnm fl. tel. 



