GENTIANA. 
sinister loveliness (“soft lashes hide thine azure eye which gleamest”’), 
for the lobes are fringed into a fine long fluff of hair-like strips ; though 
Mrs. Fitzroy Timmins’s colour-epithet will not fit, for the flower is of 
a clear and stone-cold electric blue, luminous and mute. But in 
cultivation G. ciliata is hopeless, for all that rough-cast heartiness of 
apparent habit. Itis either biennial or parasitic or both; the knobbed 
frailness of its white root-threads gives away the secret. It may be 
coaxed in special conditions into coming up the second season, but it 
rarely does more, and soon fades dreamlike away. And seed of such 
species offers little better hope. 
G. Clusii is G. vulgaris, See under G. “ acaulis.” 
G. coerulescens is a Siberian species of small merit and nearly a 
foot’s stature, with blue flowers in late summer. It is quite easy to 
grow, which is too often the makeweight of an immeritorious Gentian. 
G'. cordifolia. See under G. septemfida. 
G. coronata, a very dwarf high Himalayan, but not among the 
best, unless we are to trust. Royle’s amazingly beautiful figure of it. 
-G. corymbiflora is a New-Zealander either perennial or monocarpic, 
but nobody yet seems sufficiently intimate with it to know which. It 
may possibly be only a variety of G. sawosa, and is abundant in the 
Alps of the South Island up to 5000 feet, there making rosettes of 
fat obovate leaves, leathery and fleshy, about 3 inches long, with just 
a pair or two upon the stems, that rise from 6 to 20 inches at times, 
forming a dense wide pyramid of large white shallow bells in large 
compact clusters. Though possibly a variety of G. saxosa, it is 
interesting to note that the Antarctic Gentians do not develop an 
alpine race like their cousins of the Northern world, alike in the Old 
and the New, although they themselves may ascend to considerable 
elevations in the mountains. 
G. crinita is another annual or biennial species after the style 
of G. ciliata, being often much taller, up to a yard in height, but 
having the same four lobes, the same fringes, the same beauty, and 
the same tantalising intractability of temper. (Low levels of North 
America.) 
G. cruciata is quite common every now and then in low hot places 
in the Alps, usually growing in very hard turfy loam. It is perfectly 
easy and vigorous in any sunny garden and deep soil, but. is not parti- 
cularly attractive, although its clustered heads of four-lobed little 
bright-blue blossoms have a cheerful effect in August and September ; 
but the plant is leafy, a foot high or more, and with excessively broad 
dark foliage outweighing the merit of the flowers. 
G. dahurica is a coarse and worthless leafy cluster-head, of dowdy 
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