278 Blue to Purple Flowers 



very occasionally white. It is an exceedingly tiny plant, 

 and has been found at an elevation of 10,000 feet. 



Gentiana afhnis, or Large Gentian, has oblong obtuse 

 leaves. In this tall handsome Gentian there is a very beau- 

 tiful contrast between the rich green foliage and the azure- 

 blue flowers. These flowers grow in dense clusters among 

 the leaves on the top of the stems; each one has a large, 

 gray, greenish-blue corolla, divided into five spreading 

 lobes, which are of a wonderful cerulean hue inside, marked 

 and spotted with white. The tips of these lobes are very 

 pointed, and sometimes the green calyx-lobes equal them in 

 length, showing between their divisions, while at other times 

 they are quite minute. 



Gentiana glauca, or Pale Gentian, is a small low-growing 

 plant with -tiny oval basal leaves forming a rosette, and a 

 few green-blue- flowers, subtended by a pair of bracts, at the 

 top of the short stalks which are only two to four inches 

 high. The calyx is campanulate, and the corolla tube is 

 cylindrical with ovate obtuse lobes. 



SPURRED GENTIAN 



Halenia deflexa. Gentian Family 



Stems: single or branched, slender, erect. Leaves: the basal ones 

 obovate or spatulate, obtuse, narrowed into petioles, the stem ones 

 ovate, acute sessile, the uppermost smaller. Flowers: terminal and 

 axillary. Fruit: capsule narrowly oblong, two-valved, seeds globose- 

 ovoid, smooth. 



A plant much resembling a Gentian, with tall erect stiff 

 stems bearing pairs of ovate leaves up them, and having a 

 tuft of larger ones at the base. The dull greenish-purple, 

 rarely white, terminal and axillary flowers are most curi- 

 ously shaped, having a campanulate corolla four to five cleft 



