GENTIANA. 
bloom and overwhelming leafage, only differing, if at all, from the 
similarly undesirable G. decumbens, in having the lobes of the calyx 
even instead of markedly uneven. 
G. davurica is the same thing. 
G. decumbens, again, is the same in ugly rankness; but here the 
calyx-lobes are of quite irregular size. But it is a variable weed, and 
probably the last two no more deserve specific rank than they do 
admission into any but the coarsest parts of the garden. There is also 
another variety that sometimes is offered as G. mongolica, and is in 
reality only a Mongolian form, unimproved, of G. decumbens. 
G. depressa, however, gives us back the beloved habit of G. bavarica. 
For this, on the Roof of the World, has exactly the same dense tight 
tufts of small packed leaves, but a trifle larger. The blue flowers 
are erect-lobed cups, however, sitting solitary all over the cushion. 
G. detonsa is very near to G. crinita, and is best, therefore, not 
bothered with, any more than G. serrata and G. contorta, all from 
Himalaya and western China. 
G.x digenea is the natural hybrid occurring between G. latifolia 
and G. vulgaris—see the description of these under G. “‘ acaulis ’’—the 
occurrence of such intermediates of course blurring the distinctness 
of the species, and making them more difficult of determination on 
the hills. 
G. dinarica. See under G. “ acaulis.” 
G. divisa occurs, but not very commonly, in the mountains of the 
South Island of New Zealand at about 5000 feet—a species of peculiar 
magnificence whose leaves are rather thin and membranous, lying on 
the ground, but wholly hidden from sight by the broad mass, some 
3 or 9 inches high, of big white flowers on many branching stems. At 
4500 feet on Mount Nelson lives the even more superb variety G. d. 
magnifica, which makes domes of sheer blossom like huge snowballs, 
nearly a foot round, up and down the slopes of the mountain. 
G. x Doefleri,an uglyish hybrid between G. x superlutea x G. punctata. 
(The prefix “super” to a hybrid’s name merely means that that par- 
ticular parent is dominant in that particular cross: this to distinguish 
it from Superman, the name not suggesting a specially extra-luteous 
lutea as the original parent.) 
G. Douglasit is a not very valuable species from the Sitka Sound. 
G. elegans=G'. serrata—an annual after the way of G. ciliata, about 
a foot high, with fringy blue flowers. 
G. Elwesit, on the high lands of Sikkim, recalls our own G. Pneu- 
monanthe, having erect stems, with flower-heads of two to ten blue 
bells, swollen in the middle of the tube in the same way. It is 
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