GENTIANA. 
all these, however, is special and sentimental, rather than owing any 
of its force to the beauty of the species themselves. 
_ G. Parryi sends out many stems from a woody root. The egg-shaped 
leaves are thick and of a glaucous blue-grey tone, set In pairs up the 
foot-high stems, and at last almost embracing the head of some one 
to five bright-blue blossoms. G. bracteosa, of catalogues, is a form of 
this with narrower foliage: the type is found in the alpine regions 
of the Rockies, and Cascade Mountains. It should be given the same 
conditions as suit all these leafy species, that is, the rich and cool soil 
which agrees with G. septemfida and G. asclepiadea ; like ail the rest it 
blossoms in later and latest summer. 
G. patula is a New Zealander, quite common in the Alps of the 
South Island, and standing near to G. bellidifolia, but taller and much 
more doubtfully perennial; and, in short, of doubtfully specific rank 
altogether. ; 
G. phlogifolia needs and deserves no special care. It comes from 
the Eastern Alps, is about 10 inches high, and has clustered blue 
flowers in June. 
G. phyllocalyx stands near G'. amoena, but sends up only one stem, 
and that stem only has one blossom ; but, to make up, that one is 
very much larger, in the shape of a stout swollen tube, pulled in below 
the lips. It grows about 5 inches tail, and lives in Sikkim, between 
13,000 and 15,000 feet. 
G. platypetala is either weak or strong in stem, clad in pairs of 
elliptic three-nerved blunt leaves, roughened at the edge, and ending 
almost always in a single squatting bell of blue, with the calyx lobes 
outlined in white, and cut into two or three teeth, the lobes them- 
selves being broader than they are long. (Sitka.) 
G. Pneumonanthe, our own by no means uncommon heath-Gentian, 
with its slender stems beset with pairs of dark and narrow leaves 
(variable in this respect, however), and ending in a bunch of long dark 
trumpets, greenish-biue outside, but of rich sapphire and emerald within, 
is very well worth establishing in a cool and peaty corner. There is 
also a striking form with pure-white flowers flecked with gold and 
green. But even more striking is the foreign form; for, where 
G. Pneumonanthe occurs in the low levels of the Alps, in heathy marshy 
places, it is in a variety twice the size of ours, a plant of special 
splendour sometimes distinguished as G. P. arvernensis, of similar 
habits and needs to the type, and flowering also in August. 
G. Porphyrio (G. angustifolia, Michx.) makes slender and usually 
unbranched stems of some 4 to 16 inches in height, amid the moister 
pine-barrens of Florida and New Jersey. The leaves are very narrow 
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