Vor. II.] GENTIAN FAMILY. 
12. Gentiana flavida A. Gray. Yel- 
lowish Gentian. (Fig. 2877.) 
Gentiana flavida A. Gray, Am. Journ. Sci. (II.) 
1:80. 1846. 
G. alba A. Gray, Man. 360. 1848. Not Muhl. 1818. 
Perennial; stem stout, terete, glabrous, sim- 
ple, erect or ascending, 1°-3° high. Leaves 
ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, smooth- 
margined, acuminate at the apex, subcordate, 
clasping or rounded at the base, 2/-5’ long, 
1/-2’ wide; flowers several or numerous in a 
sessile terminal cluster and sometimes 1 or 2 
in the upper axils, 1%4/-2/ high, 2-bracteo- 
late under the calyx; calyx-lobes ovate, acute, 
smooth or minutely rough-margined, shorter 
than the tube; corolla campanulate-funnel- 
form, open, greenish or yellowish white, its 
lobes ovate, acute or obtuse, twice as long as the 
erose-denticulate appendages; anthers coher- 
ing in a tube; capsule stipitate; seeds winged. 
In moist soil, Ontario to Virginia, Minnesota 
and Kentucky. Aug.—Oct. 
on 
leaved Gentian. (Fig. 2878.) 
Gentiana linearis Froel, Gent. 37. 1796. 
Gentiana Saponaria vat. linearis Griseb. in Hook. 
Fl. Bor. Am. 2:55. 1834. 
Perennial; glabrous throughout; stem slender, 
terete, simple, 6/-2° high, leafy. Leaves linear 
or linear-lanceolate, smooth-margined, acute at 
both ends, 3-nerved, 114/-3/ long, 2//-5/’ wide; 
flowers 1/-134’ high in a terminal cluster of 1-5 
and sometimes also in the upper axils; calyx- 
lobes linear or lanceolate, shorter than the tube; 
corolla erect, blue, oblong-funnelform, open, its 
lobes erect, rounded, 1//-2’’ long, slightly 
longer than the entire or I-2-toothed appen- 
dages; anthers coherent in a tube, or at length 
distinct; capsule stipitate; seeds winged. 
In bogs and on mountains, New Brunswick and 
Ontario to Maryland. Ascends to sooo ft. in the 
Adirondacks. Aug.—Sept. 
14. Gentiana rubricatlis Schwein. 
Red-stemmed Gentian. (Fig. 2879.) 
Gentiana rubricaulis Schwein. in Keating’s Narr. 
Long’s Exp. 2: 384. 1824. 
Gentiana linearis var. lanceolata A, Gray, Syn. Fl. 
2: Part 1, 123. -1878. 
Gentiana linearis var. latifolia A. Gray, Proc. Am. 
Acad. 22: 309. 1887. 
Perennial; glabrous; stem terete, 1°-2° high. 
Leaves rather distant, lanceolate or ovate-lan- 
ceolate, acuminate, rounded at the base, smooth- 
margined, 2’-3’ long, the lower narrower and 
obtuse; flowers about 114’ high in a sessile 
terminal cluster, 2-bracteolate under the calyx; 
calyx-lobes unequal, the larger about as long 
as the tube; corolla greenish blue or bright blue, 
club-shaped, its lobes ovate, acute or acutish, 
much longer than the broad 1-2-toothed appen- 
dages; anthers coherent, or at length distinct; 
seeds oblong, winged. 
In wet soil, New Brunswick to central New York, 
western Ontario and Minnesota. Aug.—Sept. 
