346 GENTIANACE^E. (GENTIAN FAMILY.) 



$ 3. rXEUMONANTHE, Nccker. Corolla bdl-shaped or obcanical, 5-lobed, 

 with plaited fu ds which project into appendages in the siniws : anthers erect, fixed 

 by the. deep soqiilate base, extrorse, often converging or cohering with each other in a 

 riny or tube, Baikal, seeds commonly winged: perennials. 



# Flowers nearly sessile, clustered, rarely solitary, 2-bracteolate. 

 - Anthers entirely separate : seeds wingless. 



4. G. oclirolcfrca, Frail. (YELLOWISH-WHITE GENTIAN.) Stems 

 ascending, mostly smooth ; the flowers in a dense terminal cluster and often also 

 in axillary clusters ; leaves oblate-oblong, the lowest broadly obovate and obtuse, 

 the uppcnnost somewhat lanctolate, all narrowed at the base; calyx-lobes linear, 

 unequal, much longer than its tube, rather shorter than the greenish-white open co- 

 rolla, which is painted inside with green veins and lilac-purple stripes; its lobes 

 ovate, very much exceeding the small and sparingly toothed oblique appeii'i 



pod included in the persistent corolla. Dry grounds, S. Penn. (rare) to Vir- 

 ginia, arid common southward. Sept., Oct. 



- - Anthers cohering with each other more or less firmly : seeds winged. 



5. O. :tll>a, MuhL Cat.! (WHITISH GENTIAN.) Stems upright, stout, 

 very smooth ; flowers closely sessile and much crowded in a dense terminal clus- 

 ter, and sometimes also clustered in the upper axils ; leaves ovate-lanceolate from 

 a heart-shaped closely clasping base, gradually tapering to a point ; calyx-lobes 

 ovate, shorter than the top-shaped tube, and many times shorter than the tube of 

 the corolla, reflexed-spreading ; corolla white more or less tinged with greenish or 

 yellowish, infJated-club-shaped, at length open, its short and broad ovate lobes nearly 

 twice the length of the toothed appendages ; pod nearly included ; seeds broadly 

 winged. (G. flnvida, Gray, in Sill. Jour. G. ochroleuca, Sims., Darlingt., Grimb. 

 in part, &c.) Glades and low grounds, S. W. New York to Virginia along the 

 Alleghanics, and west to Illinois, Wisconsin, &c. July -Sept. 



6. G. Aii<li'<'w*ii, Griseb. (CLOSED GENTIAN.) Stems upright, 

 smooth ; flowers closely sessile in terminal and upper axillary clusters ; leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate and lanceolate from a narrower base, gradually pointed, rough-mar- 

 gined ; calyx-lobes ovate or oblong, recurved, shorter than the top-shaped tube, 

 and much shorter than the inflated club-shaped blue corolla, which is closed at the 

 mouth, its proper lobes obliterated, the apparent lobes consisting of the broad fringe- 

 toothed and notched appendages ; pod finally projecting out of the persistent 

 corolla; seeds broadly winged. (G. Saponaria, Frod., c., not of L.) Moist 

 rich soil; common, especially northward. Sept. Corolla 1' or more long, 

 blue fading to purplish, striped inside; the folds whitish. 



7. G. Saponaria, L. (SOAPWORT GENTIAN.) Stem erect or ascend- 

 ing, smooth ; the flowers clustered at the summit and more or less so in the ax- 

 ils; leaves ovate-lanceolate, oblong, or lanccolate-obovatc, with rough margins, nar- 

 rowed at the base ; calyx-lobes linear or spatulate, acute, equalling or exceed- 

 ing the tube, half the length of the corolla ; lobes of the dub-bell-shaped light-bhut 

 corolla obtuse, erect or converging, short and broad, but distinct, and more or less lonyer 

 than iluK conspicuous "2-cleft and minutely toothed appendages ; sm/s mv//v, narrowty 

 winged. (G. Catesl>:i?i, Walt.) Moist woods, S. Penn. 1 Maryland, to Virginia, 

 Illinois, and southward, principally in the Alleghanics. Aug., Sept. 



