, ORD. XV. Rotace@e | 273° 
GENTIANA LUTEA., YELLOW GENTIAN. 
SYNONYMA. Gentiana. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Gentiana 
major. Gerard. Emac. p. 48%. Rati Hist. p. 716. Gentiana 
major lutea. Banh. Pin. p. 187. Park. Parad. p.350. Tournf. 
Inst. p. 80. Gentiana vulgaris major, Ellebori albi folio. J. Bauh. 
Hist. vol. iii. p. 520. Gentiana caule folioso, foliis ovatis ner- 
vosis, floribus rotatis verticillatis. Hall. pists Hels. n. 637. 
Icon, Miller’s Figures, tab. 139. fig. 2. 
Sp. Ch. G. corollis subquinquefidis rotatis vertcillatis, ‘aijthioe 
rere 
THE root is perennial, long, cylindrical, externally brown, in- 
ternally yellowish: the flower stem is strong, smooth, erect, taper- 
ing, and rises two or three feet in height: the leaves, which pro~ 
ceed from the lower part of the stem, are spear-shaped, large, 
entire, ribbed, sessile, and pointed; those on the upper part are 
concave, smooth, egg-shaped, and of a pale or yellowish green 
colour: the flowers are large, yellow, produced in whorls, and 
stand upon strong peduncles: the calyx is a membranous deciduous 
spatha: the corolla is divided to its base into five or more long 
narrow spreading elliptical segments: the filaments. vary in num- 
ber from five to eight; they are shorter than the corolla, and fur- 
nished with long erect antherze: the germen is long, conical, with- 
out a style, and supplied with two reflexed stigmata: the capsule 
is conical, of one ceil, divided into two valves, and contains nume- 
rous small seeds. It flowers in June and July. 
This plant is a native of the Alps, and according to the Hortus 
- Kewensis was first cultivated in Britain in the time of Gerard. But 
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