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MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS 



Gentians are pretty flowers, but few of them are cultivated. The prettiest 

 of these are the closed gentian (G. Andrewsii), with large blue flowers, the 

 white closed gentian (G. flavida}, the fringed gentian (G. crinita), and the 

 Texas lily (Eustoma Russellianum) , native from Texas to Nebraska and intro- 

 duced into Colorado, with handsome large blue and white flowers. 



Fig. 396. Yellowish Gentian 

 (Gentiana flavida). A plant 

 with bitter properties frequently 

 used in connection with stock 

 foods. (Lois Pammel.) 



Menycmthes (Tourn.) L. 



Smooth marsh herb with creeping rootstocks; leaves 3-foliolate; flowers 

 conspicuous white or purplish, in racemes or panicle; calyx 5-parted; corolla 

 short, funnel-shaped, 5-cleft ; stamens 5, inserted on the tube of the corolla ; ovary 

 1 -celled; capsule oval, indehiscent. 



Menyanthes trifoliata L. Buckbean. Bog-bean 



Perennial from scaly rootstocks; leaves petioled, sheathing at the base; 

 leaflets oblong or obovate ; raceme 10-20 flowered ; calyx shorter than the white 

 or purplish corolla. 



Distribution. Europe and Asia, and North America, especially northward 

 from New England to Greenland and Alaska, Iowa and Minnesota. 



