GENTIANACEAE 281 



included. Style none, or a mere point of the ovary; stigmas 2> 

 Capsule oblong. Flowers solitary, or cymose, large. 



1. CROSSOPETALUM : Corolla subcampanulate, 4rlobd, without plaited folds; lobes 

 fringed; anthers incumbents seeds oblong, scaly-hispid. Annuals, or biennials. 



1. G. crinlta, Froelich. Leaves ovate-lanceolate ; flowers solitary, 

 on long terminal naked peduncles ; calyx acutely 4-angled. 

 HAIEED GENTIANA. Fringed Gentian. 



Annual t smooth. Stem 1 to 2 feet high, terete, branched; branches opposite, 

 axillary, erect, 4-angled and slightly winged. Leaves 1 to 2 or 3 inches long, 

 closely sessile. Corolla about 2 inches long, bright blue, and beautifully fringed. 

 Seeds curiously echinate, or hispid. 

 Sab. Hilly open woodlands ; o^d fields, &c. : frequent. Fl. Octo. Fr. Noyem. 



Obs. I have long suspected this autumnal beauty to be an annual ; 

 but was not aware, until recently, that PETER COLLINSON had en- 

 tertained the same suspicion, nearly a century before me. Authors 

 generally regard it as a biennial : which is it ? 



J 2. PireiTMONANTftE : Corolla subcampanulate, or clavate, btobed, it>ith intermediate 

 plaited folds; anthers erect, sometimes cohering; seeds usually flat, and mar- 

 gined. Perennials. 



2. r. Sapoiiaria, L. var. pube*rula, Torr. $ Gray. Roughish- 

 puberulent; leaves narrow, sub-linear; corolla open, subeampami- 

 late. 



SOAP-WORT GENTIANA (puberulent narrow-leaved variety). 



Stem 12 to 18 inches high, rather slender, but rigid. Leaves I to 2^ inches 

 long, varying from oblong-lanceolate to narrowly linear, often broader at base. 

 Flowers clustered at summit, and more or less so in the axils; corolla, blue, about 

 an inch, or inch and half long ; anthers at first cohering, finally free ; seeds nar- 

 rowly margined. 

 Hob. Sandy grounds ; near New London : rare. Fl. Sept. Fr. Octo. 



Obs. There has been much confusion respecting two or three of 

 our Gentians. The true G. Saponaria, of Linn, it appears, is a 

 Southern plant, and is the G. Catesbaei, of Walter. Of this, there 

 are two varieties ; of which the puberula, of MX. is now regarded as 

 one. It was collected in the locality above named, in 1848, by Mr. 

 VINCENT BARNARD, an active and intelligent young Naturalist of 

 this County. The G. Saponaria, of FL Cestrica, ed. 2. is now G. 

 Andrewsii, of GRISEBACH which see. 



3. G> alba, Muhl. Smooth; leaves elliptic-lanceolate, and obo- 

 vate, closely clasping and slightly decurrent; corolla ventricose- 

 campanulate, finally open, the lobes short and broadly ovate. 



G. ochroleuca. Fl. Cestr. ed. 2. p. 165. not of FROELICH, nor GRAY. 

 WHITE GENTIANA. 



Stem 9 to 15 inches high. Leaves 1 or 2 to 4 inches long, indistinctly 3-nerved, 

 Bubcoriaceous. Flowers mostly in a terminal bracteate cluster ; calyx-tube about 

 % an inch long, the segments linear-lanceolate, % of an inch in length ; corolla 

 about an inch and half long, yellowish-white, with tinges of pale green, or some- 

 times of purplish-blue ; outer lobes entire, inner ones serrate-dentate ; anthers finally 

 free ; seeds rather broadly margined. 

 Hob. Fields, and woodlands: not common. Fl. Sept. Fr. Nov. 



