No. 14.] FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS. 319 



LIGUSTRUM L. Privet. 



Ligustrum vulgare L. (common). 

 Privet. Prim. 



Roadsides and thickets as an escape from cultivation. 

 Rare inland: Thompson and Wethersfield (Bissell), Wood- 

 bury and Oxford (Harger). Occasional or frequent near the 

 coast. June — July. Naturalized from Europe. 



GENTIANACEAE. GENTIAN FAMILY. 



SABATIA Adans. 



Sabatia campestris Nutt. (growing in fields). 



Rare. Bridgeport, in waste ground (Eames). Aug.— 

 Sept. Fugitive from the Southwest. 



Sabatia stellaris Pursh (star-shaped). 

 Sea or Alarsh Pink. Sabatia. 



Occasional or local on borders of salt marshes along the 

 coast. July — Sept. 



Rarely occurs with white flowers. 



Sabatia dodecandra (L.) BSP. (having twelve stamens). 

 Sabatia chloroides Pursh. 

 Large Marsh Pink. 



Rare. Marshes near the coast: Old Lyme (F. H. Dart), 

 Saybrook (Berzelius Catalogue), Guilford (Miss K. Dudley). 

 July — Sept. 



GENTIANA L. Gentian. 



Gentiana crinita Froel. (having long hairs; referring to the 



fringed corolla). 

 Fringed Gentian. 



Occasional or local. Moist meadows and pastures. Sept. 

 — Oct. 



The gentian root of medicine, much used as a bitter tonic, 

 comes from Gentiana lutea of Europe, but our American 

 species have similar properties and are also used somewhat 

 in the same way. 



Gentiana quinquefolia L. (five-leaved). 

 Gentiana quinqueflora Hill. 



