Genfiana. GENTIANACE^. 117 



++ ++ Corolla (sky-blue, occasionally white) conspicuously longer than the wingless calyx.: 

 autumn-flowering. 



Gr. crinita, Proel. A foot or two high, often paniculate-corymbose, leafy : leaves lanceo- 

 late or ovate-lanceolate from a rounded or subcordate partly clasping base : salient narrow 

 keels of the calyx-lobes conspicuously decurrent on the tube : corolla 2 inches long ; its 

 lobes cuneate-obovate, strongly fimbriate around the summit, less or hardly so down the 

 narrowing sides : capsule fusiform, conspicuously stipitate : seeds squamulose-roughened. 

 — Gent. 112; Bot. Mag. t. 2031; Bart. Fl. Am. Sept. iii. t. 80. G. ciUata Americana, L,. 

 G.Jimbriata, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 509. Gentianella crinita, Don, Syst. iv. 179. — Low grounds, 

 Canada to Dakotah and southward to the mountains of Georgia. 

 G. serrata, Gunner. Stem 3 to 18 inches high: leaves linear or lanceolate-linear: 

 corolla an inch to an inch and a half long ; its lobes oblong or spatulate-obovate, eroscly 

 fimbriate or toothed around the summit and sides, or sometimes either part nearly bare : 

 capsule short-stipitate : seeds and calyx nearly as in G. crinita. — Fl. Norveg. 10 (also 

 under G. ciliata, 88, t. 2), & Fl. Dan. t. 317 ; Fries; Summ. Scand. 190; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 

 481. G. detonsa, Rottb. Act. Hafn. x. 254, t. 1 ; Griseb. 1. c. ; Torr. Fl. N. Y. ii. t. 82. G. 

 ciliata, Pall. Fl. Ross. ii. t. 92, not L. G. harhata, Froel. Gent. 114. G. brachypetala, Bunge, 

 Consp. Gent, in Mem. Mosq. 1824, 225, t. 1. — Wet grounds, Newfoundland, Canada, and 

 N. W. New York to Saskatchewan and northward, and west to Colorado and W". Nevada, 

 ■ mainly the larger and most fimbriate form, G. detonsa, var. harhata, Griseb., &c. (Siberia to 

 Norway and Greenland.) 



Var. grandis, a form with stem 2 feet high or more, and corolla 2 inches long, a por- 

 tion only of the sides of the lobes coarsely fimbriate. — G. detonsa, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 

 157. — S. E. Arizona, between Barbacomori and Santa Cruz, Tkurber, Wright. (Perhaps G. 

 crinita, var. Cervantesii, Griseb. in DC. I.e. Mexico.) 



Var. holopetala, Gray, a small or slender form, 2 to 16 inches high, with compara- 

 tively long peduncles : corolla an inch or more long, its lobes entire or merely erose-den- 

 ticulate romid the summit. —Bot. Calif, i. 481. — Sierra Nevada, California, at 5,000 to 

 10,000 feet, and Oregon. 

 G. simplex, Gray. Stem 2 to 10 inches high, simple, bearing 2 to 4 pairs of lanceolate 

 or linear-oblong leaves (3 to 9 lines long) and a single slender-pedunculate flower : calyx- 

 tube and lobes hardly at all angled or carinate ; the latter nearly equal and similar : corolla 

 an inch long ; its oblong-spatulate lobes entire or erose-dentate and sometimes a fringe of 

 a few bristly teeth low down on the sides : capsule stipitate : seeds smooth but longitudi- 

 nally striate, narrow, wingless when mature, except a cellular appendage at both ends. — 

 Pacif . R. Rep. v. 87, t. 16, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. — ffigher parts of the Sierra Nevada, Califor- 

 nia, to adjacent portion of Oregon. 



^_ ^_ Flower 2-bracteate under or near the calyx : filaments ciliate-bearded below the middle : 

 calyx hardly at all angled or carinate: root perennial. 

 G. barbellata, Engelm. Stems single or in pairs from the slender fusiform root or 

 caudex, 2 to 5 inches high : leaves rather thick and fleshy, obtuse, with roughish callous 

 margins; the radical spatulate (an inch or two long) or slender-petioled ; the 2 or 3 cau- 

 line pairs spatulate-Unear, or the uppermost narrowly linear and connate at base : flowers 

 one to three, sessile or nearly so between the involucrate f oliaceous bracts : calyx-lobes 

 subulate-triangular : corolla bright blue, an inch to an inch and a half long, about twice the 

 length of the calyx, deeply 4-cleft ; the lobes oblong, erose-denticulate above, conspicu- 

 ously fimbriate along the middle: capsule short and not stipitate: seeds squamulose- 

 rougiiened. — Trans. Acad. St. Louis, ii. 216, t. 2. — Alpine region of the Rocky Mountains 

 in Colorado, Parry, &c. Related to G. ciliata of Europe. 



* * Flowers smaller, 4-5-merous : corolla somewhat funnelform or salverform when expanded ; 



the lobes entire (rarely with a few denticulations), their base sometimes crowned with setaceous 



filaments: capsule seldom stipitate: seeds with a very close thin and smooth coat. — Endolriclia, 



etc., Froel. § Amarella, Arctophila, &c., Griseb. 



-t- Peduncles elongated and naked from a very short stem, 1-flowered: throat of corolla crowned; 



no glands at its base : edges of leaves and sepals smooth. 



G. tenella, Rottb. An inch to a span high : leaves (2 to 6 lines long) oblong or the 



lowest spatulate: calyx deeply 5- (sometimes 4-) parted; the lobes foliaceous, oblong to 



ovate, usually unequal: corolla 2\ to 4 lines long, double the length of the calyx (more 



lengthened in fruit), blue ; its lobes ovate-oblong, rather obtuse, little shorter than the 



