PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Gentiana, £9 



or elliptic-lanceolate, ribbed, acute leaves, varying much in size. 

 Stems solitary from the centre of each tuft, generally very short, 

 and densely leafy, single-flowered. FL large, often 2 inches 

 long, exquisitely beautiful, of a rich blue in the limb„ paler in 

 the tube, which is dotted internally with black. Between each 

 pair of the larger segments is an intermediate one, generally 

 notched, very variable in magnitude. The anthers are united, 

 as in the last. G. angiistifolia and G. alpina of A'illars are very 

 slight varieties. The latter is exactly represented by our figure 

 in Engl. Bot. 



3. G. ver?ia. Spring Gentian. 



Corolla five-cleft, salver-shaped, crenate; segments auricled 



at the base. Leaves crowded, ovate. 

 G. verna. Linn. Sp. PL33\. mild. v. I. \342. FL Br. 2Sd. Engl. 



Bot. V. 7. f. 493. Sijw. Si/u. 64. Curt. Mag. ^ 491. Dicks. Dr. 



PI. 59. Don H.Br. 28. 

 G. bavarica. Jacq. Obs.fasc. 3. 19. t. 71 . 

 G. n. 644. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 286. 

 G. sexta. Clus. Hist. v. 1.315./. 

 Gentianella ulpina verna. Ger. Em. 436./. How Fhyt. 46. Merr. 



Pin. 45. Dill. Indie. PL Dub. in Raii Si/n. 

 G. minor verna caerulea, stellato flore. Barrel. Ic. t. lOi)./ 1. 

 HpixaAij. Renealm. Spec. 75. t. 68. 



In barren mountainous situations, but rare. 



On mountains betwixt Gort and Galloway. Mr.Henton. In Tees- 

 dale forest, Durham, abundantly. Rev. J. Harriman, and Mr. 

 Oliver. 



Perennial. April. 



Roofs slender, branched and creeping, each branch terminating in 

 a tuft of crowded, ovate, acute leaves, which are half an inch 

 long, and a central, short, simple, angular, leafy stem, bearing 

 i\ aoVitnry Jlower, of a most vivid blue. Cal. with prominent 

 angles and sharp teeth, shorter than the tube of the corolla, 

 which is whitish. The limb is horizontal, about an inch wide, 

 each segment rounded, sometimes acute, a little wavy, or notched, 

 with 2 small lobes, erect or spreading, at its base. Anth. di- 

 fitinct, within the tube. Sttjlcs scarcely separate. Stigmas cXo'^e 

 together, crescent-shaped, fringed. I'he leaves are occasionally 

 obtuse, approaching those of G. bavarica, which probably is not 

 a distinct s|)ecies. iNone of the above synonyms can be marked 

 as defniite varieties ; far kss as |)ermanent ones. This (ientian 

 is more difTicult of culture than the last. 



4. G. 7th'alis. Small Alpine (ientian. 



Corolla riinnel-slinpod, five-clefl, with notched intermediate 



