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oblong'-lanceolate, obtuse, the upper Hr>ear-lanceolate, acute : 

 branches 1-3 flowered with 2 or 3 pair of leaves : calyx (fig-. G) 

 i/^ to 3 cm. long-, unequally cleft to the middle or a little above, 

 4-lobed, the longer lobes linear-lanceolate, the shorter much 

 broader with membranaceous margins, all acuminate and carinate, 

 scabrous : corolla (fig. H) deep blue, 2 to 5 cm. long, 4-lobed, the 

 lobes very veiny, roundish with many long fringes along the sides 

 and dentate across the summit : nectariferous glands as in G. 

 Macounii: stamens 4, the filaments naked otherwise as in the 

 preceding species : ovary (fig. I) shortly stipitate with short 

 style and a roundish, somewhat lobed stigma : mature capsule 

 much shorter than the corolla : seeds with long papiflai. 



Collected near Sarnia, Lambton County, Ontario, by C. K. 

 Dodge, and in a swampy place at Stony Mountain in Manitoba, 

 with flowers from August to September. 



Several specimens from United States are preserved in the 

 Gray herbarium of Harvard University from the following stations: 

 Goat island and Strawberry island, Niagara Falls ; shore of Lake 

 Superior ; Charlevoix in Michigan. 



Gentiana nesophila, Holm. 



(Plate XIII, Fig. 6.) 



Annual, glabrous : stem erect, angled, 6 to 9 cm. high, much 

 branched from near the root : leaves glaucous, densely crowded 

 and forming a rosette, roundish or obovate tapering into the peti- 

 oles, the cauline spathulate or lanceolate, obtuse : peduncles many 

 to 12, i-flowered, with 2 or 3 pair of leaves: calyx (fig. K) 

 glaucous and wholly glabrous, about i j^ cm. long, unequally 

 cleft to near the middle, 4-lobed, the longer lobes narrow and 

 keeled, the shorter much broader with membranaceous margins, 

 but not carinate : corolla (fig. L) pale bluish in dried specimens, 

 2 to 23^ cm. long, 4-lobed, the lobes roundish with a very few 

 lateral teeth, but no fringes, erosely denticulate across the summit, 

 nectariferous glands 4 : stamens 4, with winged filaments : ovary 

 (fig. M) shortly stipitate, the style distinct with a roundish stigma: 

 mature capsule shorter than the corolla : seeds with short, obtuse 

 papillae. 



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