te GENTIANACE vases 
or nearly entire. Capsule coriaceous, commonly flattened; the 
placentae or edyes of the valves not intruded. =Seeds compara- 
tively few, compressed, commonly smooth and margined. 
* Leaves marginless: sepals narrow, almost as long as the corolla: 
corolla with a single round gland upon each lobe; no crown at base: 
capsule stronzly flattened parallel with the valves: seeds orbicular, 
wing margined: stem large and stout. ; 
F. thyrsiflora Hook. Kew Jour. Bot. iii, 288. ‘* Stems 2 or 3 feet 
high: leaves in pairs or threes, oblong or spatulate-obovate, the cauline 
3 or 4 inches long: flowers in a dense interrupted thyrsus: sepals subulate- 
linear ( 4 lines long ): lobes of the pale blue corolla ovate-oblong, thin, 
bearing the gland near the base: style short and conical, in some flowers 
oie any. Idaho and interior of Oregon on the tributaries of the Colum- 
ia. 
* * Leaves not margined: sepals linear, equalling the corolla: a 
pair of oblong glands on each corolla-lobe and a separate crown below 
them: capsule compressed contrary to the almost conduplicate valves: 
seeds oblong, flat margined. 
F. speciosa Dougl. Griseb. Gent. 329. Stem stout, 2-5 feet high, 
very leafy : leaves in fours and sixes, nervose; the radical and lowest cauline 
obovate or oblong, 6-10 inches long, the abner lanceolate and at length 
linear: flowers very numerous in a long leafy thyrsus: the peduncles and 
slender pedicels at length strict: lobes of the greenish-white or barely 
blutsh and dark-dotted corolla oblong, acutish, half inch long, bearing the 
pair ‘of contiguous and densely long-fringed glands about the middle, and 
a distant transversely inserted and setaceously multifid scale-like crown 
near the base, usually some minute setza between the bases of the fila- 
ments: style subulate, shorter than the ovary. Inthe mountains, eastern | 
Oregon to California, Wyoming and New Mexico. 
* * * Leaves with cartilaginous white margins, thickish, lanceo'ate 
or linear and grass-like, merely opposite, the cauline only 3-5 pairs: 
inflorescence a virgate interrupted thyrsus of 3-7 pairs of sessile or 
short-peduncled dense cymes, forming a series of glomerate clusters: 
pedicels very short: sepals subulate-lanceolate, about equalling the 
oblong or ovate lobes of the blue corolla: fringed glands solitary, elon- 
gated, extending from the base of the lobe to near the middle, saccate 
and with a longer and coarser fringe at base: crown staminal, consist- 
ing of a conspicuously laciniately parted or nearly entire scale between 
the filaments: style slender, twice the length of the ovary: capsule 
compressed parallel with the flat or flattish valves, few-seeded: seeds 
as far as known flat, smooth, acute-angled. 
F. nitida Benth. Pi. Hartw. 322. Completely glabrous: stems slender, 
1-2 feet high, simple: leaves linear-lanceolate; the radical ones 6-8 inches 
long ; those subtending the upper flower clusters reduced to small bracts: 
sepals linear-lanceolate, acuminate,, scarcely margined with white, entire: 
corolla biue, sometimes spotted with greenish dots, the lobes barely acute, 
bearing an elongated-oblong ‘obtuse gland: thin scales between the fila- 
ments ovate or oblong-linear, entire or sparingly laciniate, longer than the 
orary Common from Brit. Columbia to California, east of the Cascade 
ountains. 
F. Cusickii Gray Proc. Am. Acad. xxii, 310. Glabrous: stems slen- 
der, 2-8 inches higi, but little longer than the radical leaves: thyrsus 
either of s mple glomerules or interrupted spiciform : corolla large; its lobes 
nearly halfinch long, oval, obtuse: scales between the filaments large, or- 
bicular, concave. nearly entire, surpassing the ovary. Hillsi‘es ot the 
