616 GENTIANACEAE. [Vor Il. 
g. Gentiana Ellidttii Chapm. Elliott’s Gentian. (Fig. 2874.) 
Gentiana Catesbaei Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1: 339. 
1817. Not Walt. 1788. 
Gentiana Ellioitii Chapm. F1. S. States, 356. 1860. 
Gentiana scaberrima Kusnezow, Act. Hort. Petrop. 
13: 59. 1893. 
Perennial; roots a cluster of thick fibres; 
stems slender, leafy, terete, minutely rough- 
puberulent, simple, 8’-2° high. Leaves ovate 
or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acutish at the apex, 
rounded at the base, thin, ronghish-margined, 
1/-2’ long, 3-nerved, or the lower much smaller 
and obtuse; flowers 1-4, terminal, or rarely 1 or 
2 in the upper axils, about 2’ long, sessile, 2- 
bracteolate under the calyx; calyx-lobes oblong 
or lanceolate, foliaceous, longer than the tube; - 
corolla campanulate-funnelform, blue, its lobes 
ovate, obtuse, sometimes mucronate, entire, 
3/’-4’’ long, about twice as long as the fimbriate 
or toothed appendages; anthers cohering in a 
tube; seeds oblong, broadly winged. 
In moist soil, Virginia to Florida. Sept.—Oct. 
10. Gentiana Saponaria L. Soap- 
wort Gentian. (Fig. 2875.) 
Gentiana Saponaria 1. Sp. Pl. 228. 1753- 
Gentiana Catesbaei Walt. Fl. Car. 109. 1788. 
Perennial; stem erect or ascending, terete, 
slender, simple or with short erect axillary 
branches, glabrous, or minutely rough-puber- 
ulent above, 1°-2%4° high, leafy. Leaves 
lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or oblong, 
usually acute at both ends, 3-5-nerved, 
roughish-margined, 2’-4’ long, the lowest 
obovate and smaller; flowers 1/-2/ high, in 
sessile terminal and usually also axillary 
clusters of 1-5, 2-bracteolate under the calyx; 
calyx-lobes oblong or spatulate, ciliolate; 
corolla blue, club-shaped, its lobes erect, ob- 
tuse, equalling or longer than the cleft or 
lacerate appendages; anthers cohering in a 
tube; capsule stipitate; seeds broadly winged. 
In, wet soil, Ontario to Minnesota, Florida and 
Louisiana. Aug.-Oct. 
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11. Gentiana Andréwsii Griseb. Closed 
or Blind Gentian. (Fig. 2876.) 
Gentiana alba Muhl. Cat. Ed. 2, 29. 1818? 
Gentiana Andrewsii Griseb. in Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 
2:55. 1834. 
Perennial; similar to the preceding species, 
stout, glabrous, 1°-2° high, simple, leafy. Leaves 
ovate to lanceolate, 3-7-nerved, acuminate at the 
apex, narrowed or sometimes rounded at the 
base, 2’-4’ long, rough-margined, the lowest ob- 
long or obovate, smaller; flowers 1/-134’ high in 
a terminal sessile cluster and commonly I or 2 in 
the upper axils, 2-bracteolate under the calyx; 
calyx-lobes lanceolate or ovate, ciliolate, usually 
spreading; corolla oblong, club-shaped, blue, or oc- 
casionally white, nearly or quite closed, its lobes 
obsolete, the intervening appendages very broad, 
light colored, opposite the stamens; anthers coher- 
inginatube; capsulestipitate; seedsoblong, winged. 
In moist soil, Quebec to the Northwest Territory, 
Georgia and Missouri. Aug.—Oct. 
