110 GENTIANACE^. Frasera. 



lower ones a foot long and 2-3 inches wide ; the upper gradually smaller. Flowers nu- 

 merous, forming a long pyramidal leafy compound panicle. Pedicels from half an inch to 

 an inch in length. Calyx deeply 4-parted ; the segments linear-lanceolate, acute. Corolla, 

 when expanded, about an inch in diameter, greenish yellow speckled with purple, deeply 4- 

 parted ; the segments ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, with a large oval beautifully fringed gland 

 in the centre of each. Stamens shorter than the corolla : anthers large, oblong, yellow. 

 Ovary sessile, attenuated above into a short style : stigma of two oblong finally spreading 

 lobes. Capsule about three-fourths of an inch long, oval, much compressed. Seeds about 

 six, one-fourth of an inch long, flattened, with a narrow winged border. Embryo minute, at 

 the extremity of fleshy albumen : cotyledons oval : radicle short and thick. 



On West-Canada creek {Prof. J. Hadley) ; Moscow, Livingston county {Dr. Bradley). 

 Borders of lakes. New- York {Pursh). July. The root of this plant is esteemed a good bitter 

 tonic. It is administered both in the form of powder and infusion. (See Wood Sf Bache's 

 U. S. Dispens. p. 214.) 



3. HALENIA. Borkh. in Roem. arch. 1. p. 22, ex Endl. gen. 3535. balenia. 



[ Etymology uncertain.] 



Calj'x 4-parted. Corolla campanulate, 4-cleft ; the segments with a glanduliferous spur at 

 the base. Stigma 2-lobed, nearly sessile. Capsule compressed, 1 -celled, 2-valved, many- 

 (or few-) seeded ; the seeds fixed to the sutures. — Herbs, with the flowers in terminal and 

 axillary pedunculate cymules, which are more or less paniculate. 



1. Halenia deflexa, Griseb. Deflexed Halenia. 



Stem erect, leafy ; leaves 3 - 5-nerved ; radical ones oblong-spatulate, the base attenuated 

 into a petiole as long as tiie lamina ; those of the stem oblong-lanceolate, acute, nearly sessile ; 

 spurs cylindrical, obtuse, curved and descending, half the length of the corolla. Griseb. in 

 Hook. Jl. Bar.- Am. 2. p. 67. t. 153, ^ Gent. p. 324. Swertia deflexa, Sm. in Rees's cycl. ; 

 Gold, in Edinh. pliil. mag. 6. p. 321 ; Torr.Jl. \.p. 186 ; Beck, hot. p. 240. S. corniculata, 

 Miclix.Jl. \.p. 97 ; Pursh, Jl. 1. p. 100. S. Michauxiana, Rcem. ^- Schult. syst. 6. p. 130. 

 S. Americana, Spreng. syst. 1. p. 861. 



Biennial. Stem 12-18 inches high, 4 -angled, simple or somewhat branched above. 

 Leaves about an inch long. Flowers in terminal cymules ; the pedicels 3-8 lines long. 

 Segments of tlie calyx lanceolate. Corolla blue ; the segments ovate, acuminate : horns 

 descending and curved outwards. Stamens half as long as the corolla : anthers small, oval. 

 Capsule elliptical, acute. Seeds oblong-cylindrical. 



Borders of small lakes in the northern part of the State {Prof. Hadley). Very near H. 

 Sibirica. 



