340 GENTTANACEjE. (gentian family.) 



§ 3. rNEUMONANTHE, Nccker. — Corolla bell-shaped or obconical, 5-lobed, 

 with plailecl fods which project into appendages in the sinuses: anthers erect, fixed 

 by the. deep saqiilate base, extrorse, often converging or cohering with each other in a 

 ring or tube, stalked; seeds commonly winged: perennials. 



* Flowers nearly sessile, clustered, rarely solitary, 2-bracteolate. 

 ■»- Anthers entirely separate : seeds wingless. 



4. G. ©cBsroSciSca, Frcel. (Yellowish-White Gentian.) Stems 

 ascending, mostly smooth ; the flowers in a dense terminal cluster and often also 

 in axillary clusters ; leaves obovate-oblong, the lowest broadly obovate and obtuse, 

 the uppermost somewhat lanceolate, all narrowed at the base; calyx-lobes linear, 

 unequal, much longer than its tube, rather shorter than the greenish-white open co- 

 rolla, which is painted inside with green veins and lilac-purple stripes; its lobes 

 ovate, very much exceeding the small and sparingly toothed oblique appendages ; 

 pod included in the persistent corolla. — Diy grounds, S. Penn. (rare) to Vir- 

 ginia, and common southward. Sept., Oct. 



■<- -i- Anthers cohering with each other more or less firmly : seeds icinged. 



5. G. :i!1>a, Muh] Cat.! ("Whitish Gentian.) Stems upright, stout, 

 very smooth , flowers closely sessile and much crowded in a dense terminal clus- 

 ter, and sometimes also clustered in the upper axils ; leaves ovate-lanceolate from 

 a heart-shaped closely clasjiiug base, gradually tapering to a point ; calyx-lobes 

 ovate, shorter than the top-shaped tube, and many times shorter than the tube of 

 the corolla, reflexed-spreading; corolla white more or less tinged ivith greenish or 

 yellowish, injlated-club-shapcd, at length open, its short and broad ovate lobes nearly 

 twice the length of the toothed appendages: pod nearly included; seeds broadly 

 winged. (G. flavida, Gray, in Sill. Jour. G. oehrolcuca, Sims., Darlingt., Griseb. 

 in part, &c.) — Glades and low grounds, S. W. New York to Virginia along the 

 Alleghanics, and west to Illinois, Wisconsin, &c. July -Sept. 



6. O. AsidiM'wsii, Griseb. (Closed Gentian.) Stems upright, 

 smooth ; flowers closely sessile in terminal and upper axillary clusters ; leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate and lanceolate from a narrower base, gradually pointed, rough-mar- 

 gined ; calyx-lobes ovate or oblong, recurved, shorter than the top-shaped tube, 

 and much shorter than the inflated club-shaped blue corolla, which is closed at the 

 mouth, its proper lobes obliterated, the apparent lobes consisting of the broad fringe- 

 toothed and notched appendages ; pod finally projecting out of the persistent 

 corolla; seeds broadly winged. (G. Saponaria, Frail, frc, not of L.) — Moist 

 rich soil; common, especially northward. Sept. — Corolla 1' or more long, 

 blue fading to purplish, striped inside; the folds whitish. 



7. O. Saponaria, L. (Soapwort Gentian.) Stem erect or ascend- 

 ing, smooth ; the flowers clustered at the summit and more or less so in the ax- 

 ils ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, oblong, or lanccolate-obovate, with rough margins, nar- 

 rowed at the base ; calyx-lobes linear or spatulate, acute, equalling or exceed- 

 ing the tube, half the length of the corolla ; lobes of the club-bcll-shaped light-bhw 

 corolla obtuse, erect or converging, short and broad, but distinct, and more or less longer 

 tlian the conspicuous 1-cleft and minutely toothed appendages ; seeds acute, narrowly 

 winged. (G. CatesbM, Walt.) —Moist woods, S. Penn. 1 Maryland, to Virginia, 

 IlliDo : s, and southward, principally in the Alleghanies. Aug., Sept. 



