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Iberbaceous plants. 



fringed gentian (G. crinita), a very beautiful American 

 plant of moist ground on the outskirts of thickets and 

 woods. Stem erect, eight inches or a foot high with 

 broadly lanceolate leaves ; flowers erect, solitary, terminat- 

 ing the branches ; corolla intensely blue, tubular with four 

 fringed lobes ; flowering late in the season. Annual or bi- 

 ennial. Seeds to be collected and sown in a moist lawn or 

 on a grassy bank. G. angustifolia is a perennial, from half 

 a foot to a foot high, with linear leaves and sky-blue flow- 

 ers. In moist sandy soil. G. Andrewsii, erect, with 

 simple stems or branches, flowers blue, closed. G. Pneu- 

 monanthe ; a European species of moist, peaty soil. 

 Leaves almost linear, sterns simple,, eight inches or a foot 

 high, bearing axillary and terminal clusters 

 of deep blue flowers. The following are fine 

 for moist places in rockeries : Gr. acaulis, a very 

 handsome plant growing on the borders of 

 alpine rivulets. Leaves all radical or nearly 

 so, broadly ovate, crowded ; flowers erect, cam- 

 pa nulate, solitary, on short stems ; corolla two 

 inches long and nearly as broad, deep blue with 

 five yellow bands down the throat. Flowering 

 in spring. G. verna, the smallest of all the spe- 

 cies, as large as or slightly larger than the 

 common bluet. Stems much branched, form- 

 FLOWER (QEN- [ U cf tufted masses three inches high ; leaves 



TIANAPNEUMO 



NANTHE). small, ovate ; flowers numerous, erect, corolla 

 azure blue. Flowers in spring. This one may be grown 

 among the grass in moist sandy lawns ; cannot be grown in 

 a dry place. 



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