GENTIANA. 
pairs of oval-pointed leaves, and ending, in August, with heads of 
the most beautiful ample open flowers, large and splendid, of clear soft 
blue, with the lobes of the corolla almost equalled by those of the 
folds, which are cut and jagged so that the wide bell has a rich look of 
ten segments, especially fringy and decorative and luxuriant. G. 
septemfida varies greatly, and many forms are often put upon the 
market as species. Such is .G. s. cordifolia, from Turkish Armenia, 
a form differing only in the extra broadness and heart-shapedness 
of the leaves, which are also less pointed than in the type. G. s. 
latifolia likewise explains itself, and G. s. procumbens is a minuter 
delicacy or high-alpine development, from greater elevations in 
Caucasus and the Siberian Altai, with shorter prostrate stems, set 
with much smaller more broadly egg-shaped leaves, and ending usually 
in only one flower to a stem-shoot, or at most only a very few. The 
name G. gelida, sometimes given as a synonym for G. septemfida, 
belongs in reality, as we have seen, to an allied but wholly different 
species. G. Lagodechiana, however, is a dwarf G. septemfida. 
G. sikkimensis is a common cousin of G. Pneumonanthe from the 
high Alps of Sikkim, where it sends out a large number of flopping 
stems about half a foot long, each ending in heads of blue bells nearly 
an inch in length, framed in a frill of the uppermost stem-leaves, while 
the blunted round ones at the base still persist. 
‘G. sino-ornata forms vast hassocks of erect azure trumpets (in 
September) in any low rich cool level of the garden. 
G. siphonantha ; a blue August-blooming Cluster-head from China 
about 8 inches in height. 
G.x spuria is a hybrid of G. punctata x G. purpurea. 
G. straminea comes from Siberia, with flowers of palest yellow. 
G. symphyandra is a rare species found on Oeta, and like a 
magnified G. lutea, with blossoms on longer footstalks in their 
bunches. 
G. tergestina is the Dalmatian equivalent of G. verna. 
G. tergloviensis must be carefully guarded against confusion with 
G. imbricata (Schleich.), the same name having been imposed on this 
species by Froelich. G. tergloviensis is an obscure little plant, which 
may occasionally be seen at considerable elevations on the granite 
of the Eastern ranges, but will usually be passed over as being G. 
brachyphylla in a loose condition. It is a lax and rather weak tuit, 
with oval-pointed small leaves overlapping thickly even on the elongating 
flower-shoots. They are truly like those of a small G. verna, but their 
density differentiates them, and they are also rough at the edges. The 
flowers are, as in the others of the high-alpine group, long-tubed stars 
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