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minutely hairy or roughened on the margin, 2-4 in. long. 

 Flowers in bunched clusters, permanently closed, blue, about 

 I in. high. In wet places. Quebec to Georgia, and westward. 

 September. Fig. 673. A related species, the Soapwort Gentian, 

 D. Saponaria, has the summit of the club-shaped flowers in- 

 curved but not closed. It grows from Ontario to Florida, 

 and westward. 



674. One-flowered Gentian. Dasystephana Porphyrio. 

 (Gcntiana Porphyrio.) A smooth perennial about i ft. high 

 with opposite, linear leaves, 1-2 in. long. Flower solitary, 

 terminal, stalked, blue, nearly 2 in. high. Corolla funnel 

 shaped, its lobes spreading, not fringed. In pine barrens. New 

 Jersey to Florida. September. 



675. Gentian. DasystcpJmna linearis. {Gcntiana linearis.) 

 An unbranched, erect smooth herb 1-2 ft. high with opposite, 

 lance-linear, pointed leaves 13^-3 in. long. Flowers in close 

 clusters, blue. Corolla i-i^4 iri. high, its small lobes neither 

 incurved nor spreading. In mountain bogs. New Brunswick 

 and Ontario to Maryland, and westward. September. 



676. Stiff Gentian. Gentiana quinqnefolia. With flowers 

 much resembling No. 675, but sometimes slightly yellowish. 

 Leaves oval, stalkless, about 13/2 in. long. In dry or moist 

 places. Maine and Ontario to Florida, and westward to 

 Michigan. (Not 5-leaved as its Latin name suggests.) Septem- 

 ber. Fig. 676. 



