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and racemose to few and almost solitary; 

 calyx lobes linear or linear-awl-shaped, 

 unequal, the largest rarely equalling the 

 tube; corolla an inch or less long, bright 

 blue or bluish; funnel-form, spotted inside 

 with white, the lobes ovate, acute, and 

 spreading. 



. A showy species in damp open meadows 

 in the lower valleys throughout the Rockies, 

 especially abundant at Banff; flowering 

 during August. 



Annual, stems simple or branched, 

 Tetragon- slender, erect, 6-20 inches high. 



Basal leaves obovate or spatu- 

 deflexus 



Q E late, obtuse, narrowed into peti- 



Smith) oles; stem leaves ovate or 



Kuntze. lanceolate, acute, sessile, 3-5- 



purre nerved, 1-2 inches long, the 



Gentian. 



uppermost smaller. Flowers J 

 of an inch or more long, few, on peduncles 

 about their own length, in the axils of the 

 upper leaves; corolla purplish-green or white, 

 4-5 -parted, the lobes ovate, acute, each 



