362 GENTIANACE.E. (GENTIAN FAMILY.) 
purplish panieled-cymose small flowers. (Name of unknown 
meaning.) 
1. M. deflexa, Griseb. Biennial, leafy (1° high), simple or 
branched above ; leaves 3-5-nerved, the lowest oblong-spatulate and 
petioled ; the others oblong-lanceolate, acute, nearly sessile ; spurs 
cylindrical, obtuse, curved and descending, half the length of the 
acutely 4-lobed corolla. (Swertia corniculata, L. partly.) — Damp 
woods, in the northern parts of Maine, New York, and Michigan. 
July, August. 
6. FRASER A, Walt. American Columbo. 
Calyx deeply 4-parted. Corolla deeply 4-parted, wheel-shaped, 
each division with a glandular and fringed pit on the upper side. 
Filaments awl-shaped, usually somewhat monadelphous at the 
base : anthers oblong, versatile. Style persistent: stigma 2-lob- 
ed. Pod oval, flattened, 4 - 14-seeded. Seeds large and flat, 
wing-margined. — Tall and showy herbs, with upright and most¬ 
ly simple stems, bearing whorled leaves and numerous peduncled 
flowers in open cymes, which are disposed in an ample elongated 
panicle. (Dedicated to John Fraser , a well-known and indefatiga¬ 
ble collector in this country towards the close of the last century.) 
1. F. Carolinicnsis, Walt. Smooth, tall (3P-8 0 high), 
leaves mostly in fours, lance-oblong, the lowest spatulate (1° l° n g)» 
veiny ; panicle pyramidal, loosely-flowered; divisions of the corolla 
oblong, mucronate, longer than the narrowly lanceolate calyx-lobes, 
the large and round gland on their middle bordered by a strong an 
even fringe, pod much flattened parallel with the flat valves. U ® * 
— Rich dry soil, S. W. New York to Wisconsin and southward. 
July. — Root very thick and bitter. Corolla P broad, light greenish- 
yellow with brown-purple dots. 
Suborder II. MENYANTHIDEjE. The Buckbean Fam. 
7. ME1VYANTHES, Toum. Buckbean. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla short funnel-form, 5-parted, decidu¬ 
ous, the whole upper surface white-bearded. Style slender, p er 
sistent: stigma 2-lobed. Pod bursting somewhat irregularly, 
many-seeded. Seed-coat hard, smooth, and shining. — A peren¬ 
nial herb, with a thickish creeping rootstock, sheathed by the 
membranous bases of the long petioles, which bear 3 oval or oblong 
leaflets at the summit j the flowers racemed on the naked scape, 
