GENTIAN FAMILY. OentianaccsB. 



simple, round stem is 10-24 inches high. Wet situations 

 among the mountains of N. Eng. and N. Y., south to 

 Md. Found at high elevations of the Adirondack and 

 Green Mountains. 



A greenish white-flowered species with 



a corolla narrowly open, displaying within 

 Greenish white stripes of magenta-lilac on a greenish 

 September- veined background, the lobes somewhat 

 November triangular and with a tooth. The flowers 

 are mostly in terminal clusters. The medium green 

 leaves obovate, the uppermost acute at the tip, the lower 

 ones blunt and short, all narrow at the base. Slender 

 stem 8-16 inches high. Shaded woodland borders from 

 southern N. J. and Pa., south. 



A smaller and exceedingly delicate and 

 Porphyrio pretty species mostly confined to the pine 



Light ultra- barrens of the Southern States, with a 

 marine blue simple or sometimes branching stem, and 



with solitary, bright light ultramarine 



blue flowers (often speckled within) at 

 the apex of the stem or its branches ; they are much 

 larger than bluebells. The five lobes of the corolla are 

 deeply cut, ovate, and open-spreading. The small linear 

 leaves are less than 2 inches long. 6-15 inches high. In 

 moist situations from southern N. J., south. 



An attenuated, slender, stiff-stemmed 

 Yellow little plant, simple or with a few erect 



branches, destitute of leaves, but with 



Bartoma \ J 



virginiana small awl-shaped opposite-growing scales 



Greenish closely hugging the stem, which is a trifle 



yellow angled, all a yellow-green. The lower 



scales are close together, the upper become 



more and more separated. The yellow, 



bell-shaped flowers of a greenish tone, with four blunt 



(often slightly toothed) lobes, are arranged oppositely on 



the plant-stem, the peduncles (flower-stems) about as 



long as or longer than the flower. The flowers are 



mostly terminal but inconspicuous on account of their 



uncertain coloring. 4-14 inches high. In thin woods, 



pastures, and dry cranberry bogs, but mostly in damp 



soil, from Me. , south, and west to Mich. 



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