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summit. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to linear, opposite, sessile, blunt at 

 the apex, the lower leaves usually smaller and obovate, the upper ones 

 narrower and smaller. Flowers numerous, three-fourths to i \ inches broad, 

 each flower at the apex of a branch or slender stalk. Calyx without distinct 

 ribs, its lobes, usually five in number, narrowly linear, usually somewhat 

 shorter than the five oblong or obovate corolla segments. Corolla pink 

 with a yellowish, starry eye, bordered with red, rarely the entire corolla 

 white; style two-cleft to below the middle. Fruit a small capsule about 

 one-fourth of an inch high. 



In and around salt meadows near the coast, from Massachusetts 

 to Florida. Flowering from the latter part of July until September. 



The Slender Marsh Pink (Sabbatia campanulata- 

 (Linnaeus) Torrey) with calyx lobes as long or longer than the corolla, 

 and with narrower leaves, is also found in salt meadows along the coast. 



The Large Marsh Pink (Sabbatia dodecandra (Linnaeus) Brit- 

 ton, Sterns & Poggenberg), (figure XXIV) has eight to twelve corolla seg- 

 ments, and is occasionally found in the salt marshes along the coast, but 

 more rarely than the other two species. 



The Common Rose Pink or Bitterbloom (Sabbatia angularis 

 (Linnaeus) Pursh), with square stems, opposite branches, and ovate, 

 clasping leaves, is usually found in thickets and damp, grassy places in 

 southern, central and western New York and southward. 



Fringed Gentian 



Gentiana crinita Linnaeus 



Plate 167 



Stems somewhat angled, leafy and often with numerous opposite 

 branches above, i to 3 feet high from a fibrous root which is usually biennial. 

 Leaves obovate and blunt below, the upper leaves I to 2 inches long, sessile 

 and rounded at the base, pointed at the apex. Flowers several or numerous, 

 each at the end of a branch or stalk, each flower about 2 inches high. 

 Calyx lobes lanceolate, pointed, unequal, their midribs decurrent on the 

 angles of the calyx tube. Corolla four-parted, bright blue, rarely white, 

 narrowly bell-shaped, the lobes obovate, rounded and conspicuously fringed 

 at the ends, spreading when mature but apparently closing at night. 



