IIG GENTIAN ACE^. Sahbatia. 



S. Bo^^kini, Gray. A foot high, nearly simple : cauline leaves lanceoJate-oblong or the 

 lower elliptical, 3-nerved (an inch or two long) ; the uppermost lanceolate: flowers 1 to 7 

 in the cluster; the bracts oval or oblong; calyx-lobes lanceolate, much shorter than the 

 corolla; lobes of the latter oblong-obovate, half inch long. — Chapm. Fl. Sol. — Middle or 

 Upper Georgia, Boyklii (in herb. Torr.) ; also in herb. Mulil. Little known. 

 S. sf-MPLEX, Bertol. Misc. x. t. 3, is Ithexia striata. 



4. EtJSTOMA, Salisb. (From ei', orofia, good mouth, i.e. month of good 

 size, alluding to the opeu-mouthed corolla.) — Glaucous and large-flowered an- 

 nuals ; with more or less clasping and connate thickish leaves, slender terminal 

 and more or less paniculate one-flowered peduncles, and bluish purple corolla vary- 

 ing to white ; the lobes commonly erose-denticulate. — Only the following species. 



E. exaltatum, Griseb. Lower tlian the next species: leaves oblong: lobes of the 

 corolla nearly oblong (barely an inch in length), twice the length of the tube: style little 

 longer than the stigmas: capsule elliptical-oblong, very obtuse. — DC. Prodr. ix. 51; 

 Lindl. Bot. Reg. xxxi. t. 13 ; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 621. Gentiana exaltata, L. Spec. ed. 2, 331 ; 

 Descourt, Ant. t. 15. Lisiantlias exaltutus, Lam. 111. i. 478. L. (jlandfoUus, Jacq. Ic. Rar. 

 t. 33. Eustoma silenlfoUum, Salisb. Tarad. Lond. t. 34; Don, Syst. iv. 211, excl. syn. Nutt. 

 Urananthus gfauc/folius, Benth. PI. Ilartw. 46. — Southern borders of the United States, from 

 Florida and Texas to California. (Mex., W. Ind.) 



E. Russellianum, Griseb. I. c. A foot or two liigh : leaves from ovate- to lanceolate- 

 oblong: lobes of the ample lavender-purple corolla obovate (inch and a half long), 4 times 

 longer than the tube: style elongated: capsule oblong, usually pointed: anthers hardly 

 curving in age. — Lisianthus <jlaucifolius, Nutt. in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. n. ser. v. 197, not 

 Jacq. L. PaissdUanus, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3626. — Nebraska to Texas. Very showy. 



Var. gracile. Smaller: leaves lanceolate : capsule not pointed. — £. r/rac/fe, Engelm. 

 in Fl. Calif. 1. c. — S. Texas, Bedandier, &c. (Mex.) 



5. G-ENTIANA, Tourn. Gentian. (Ce^^ms, king of Illyria.) — Erect 

 herbs (of the cooler parts of the world) ; with chiefly sessile leaves, and con- 

 spicuous flowers of various colors, produced in stmimer or autumn ; commonly 

 expanding only in sunshine or at mid-day. Seeds in most of our species exceed- 

 ingly numerous and borne over the whole inner surface of the capsule (as first 

 remarked by the late Prof. H. J. Clark, in Gray, Man. ed. 2, 185G, 345). Herb- 

 age and especially the roots very bitter. 



§ 1. Gentianella. Corolla (not rotate) destitute of extended plaits or lobes 

 or teeth at the sinuses : anthers usually versatile (introrse, at length retrorsely 

 reversed) : stigmas distinct or only casually united : root annual in all ours except 

 in G. harheUata, — GentianeUa, &c., Borkhausen. 



* (Fringed Genti.vns.) Flowers large or middle-sized, solitary, mostly 4-merous: corolla cam- 

 panulate-funnclform, its lobes usually fimbriate or evose. not crowned : a row of glands between 

 the bases of the lilameiits. — § Crossopetalum, Froclich, Grisebaeh. 



4— Flower on a naked and usually long peduncle terminating the stem or branches, not bractcate 

 at base: filaments naked: root annual: calyx (except in G. simplex} ovate-acuminate in tlie bud 

 and with acutely cariiiafe lobes, the two exterior longer as well as narrower and more acuminate, 

 the tube sharply angled by the decurrent keels. 



++ Corolla enclosed in the ventricose wing-angled calyx? 

 G. ventricosa, Griseb. A foot high: leaves ovate-oblong: calyx ovoid and 4-wing- 

 angled ; the two external lobes much acuminate; the two internal barely acute, rather 

 longer than the campanulate deeply 4-cleft corolla : ovate-oblong lobes of the latter regu- 

 larly "crenate-fimbriate" (or in the figures sharply serrate) : ovary not stipitate. — Gent. 

 259, in Hook. Fl. ii. 65, 1. 152, & DC. Prodr. ix. 102. — Grand Rapids of the Saskatchewan, 

 between Cumberland House and Hudson's Baj', Drummond. Little known and not since 

 collected : apparently described and figured from undeveloped specimens, perhaps nearly 

 related to G. ainita. 



