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Sabatia dodecandra (L.). Large Marsh Centaury. 



PI. CVL, Fig. 2. 



Chironia dodecandra Linnsus, Sp. PI. 190. 1753 [Virginia]. — Britton 172. — 



Keller and Brown 255. 

 Sabbatia chloroides Knieskern 25. — Willis 49. 



Frequent on the brackish meadows from the Hackensack 

 marshes south. In the Cape May peninsula it occurs also in 

 fresh marshes over a mile from the coast. 



This larger species, with its more numerous petals, is not so 

 plentiful as ^S*. stellaris, but is locally abundant, notably near 

 Absecon and at several points in Cape May County. 



Fl. — Late July to late August. 



Coast Strip. — Pt. Pleasant, Forked River, Spray Beach (L), Manahawkin, 

 Cox's, Mullica River, Absecon, Pleasant Mills, Mays Landing (NB), Pa- 

 lermo, Clermont. 



Cape May. — Court House, Wildwood Jnc, E. of Dias Creek (S), Dias 

 Creek. 



GENTIANA L. 



Gentiana porphyrlo J. F. Gmel. Pine Barren Gentian. 



PI. CIV. 



Gentiana Porphyria J. F. Gmelin, Syst. II. 462. 1791 [Carolina].— Keller 



and Brown 257. 

 Gentiana angiistifolia Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. I. 186. 1814. — Knieskern 25. — 



Willis 49. — Britton 173. 



Damp sand of the Pine Barrens, frequent, and occasional in 

 the southern part of the Cape May peninsula. 



It is probably a matter of individual preference to determine 

 which gentian is the handsomest. The present species, found 

 only in the remote sections of the Pine Barrens, is certainly the 

 least known and to my mind as shandsome as any. It flaring 

 mouth, the delicate markings within, and the intensity of the 

 blue, make it one of the choicest blooms of the region. 



It was apparently first discovered by William Bartram*, who 

 sent a drawing of it to Edwards, the British naturalist, who pub- 

 Hshed it in his Gleanings of Natural History, vol. V., p. 98, 1758, 

 as the "Autumnal Perennial Gentian of the Desert," but it was 



* (1739-1823) famous as a botanist and orinthologist, who resided at "Bar- 

 tram's Garden," founded by his faather, John Bartram, also a botanist of note 

 and correspondent of Linnaeus. 



