GENTIAN FAMILY. Qentianaceas. 



A not very uncommon wild flower in 

 Sabbatia ^^^® swamps of the pine barrens of New 



Sabhatia Jersey, with white, starlike, five-lobed 



lanceolata flowers, nearly an inch broad, which in 



^*^**^ fading turn yellowish, and ovate or lance- 



ber *~ shaped light green leaves with 3-5 ribs. 



The plant-stem slender, somewhat four- 

 sided, branched above, or sometimes simple. The 

 branches are borne relativeh^ opposite. The flowers are 

 numerous. 1-3 feet high. Pine barrens N. J., to Fla. 

 Rose Pink T\\Q, stem of this species is decidedly and 



Sabbatia sharply four-sided, it is also rather thick 



angularis and much branched. The light green 



White or Pink i^^ves are five-ribbed, ovate, acute at the 

 July-August 



tip, and somewhat clasping at the base. 



The delicately fragrant flowers are an inch or more 

 broad, pale crimson-pink or sometimes white, and 

 marked in the centre with a yellow-green star (a charac- 

 teristic of many of the Sabhatias). The stjde is cleft at 

 the tip — i. e., two stigmas. The calyx-lobes are about 

 one third as long as the corolla. 2-3 feet high. Fertile 

 ground, N. Y. and Pa., west to Mich., and south. 

 Sea Pink A pretty species common on salt mead- 



Sabbatia ows, with crimson-pink flow^ers as large 



sfellaris , as or larger than a nickel. The light 

 '*'"'* green leaves oblong lance-shaped or lin- 



u y- ugus ^^^^^ ^j^^ uppermost small and bractlike. 

 The numerous flowers are borne solitary at the ends of 

 the branches ; the linear calyx-lobes almost equal (the 

 rule is flexible) in length the lobes of the pale crimson- 

 pink or white corolla. More than half the style is two- 

 cleft, the stamens are golden yellow, and the centre of 

 the flower is green-yellow edged with ochre or some- 

 times red, 6-20 inches. Along the coast from Me. to 

 Fla, Closely allied to the next into which it appears to 

 pass. 



Like the preceding. The stem exceed- 

 qracilis i^gly slender and much branched. The 



Pink leaves linear or linear lance-shaped, the 



uppermost almost threadlike. The ex- 

 ceedingly narrow lobes of the calyx equal in length the 



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