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within the throat, the rare bronze-green of the buds and corolla 
externally, all give individuality and distinction. Such a plant 
does not seem to belong to the everyday world of flowers. 
In fact this gentian is not a daily or a frequent botanical ac- 
quaintance, but, quite the contrary, is one of the least seen and least 
collected of all the attractive plants of the eastern United States. 
It is a native of the sandy pine-land along the Atlantic seaboard 
and has been found from New Jersey to South Carolina; either a form 
of this or else a closely related species grows in Florida. In southern 
New Jersey it occurs, sometimes in great numbers, always in local- 
ities far in the heart of the pine-barrens. There it prefers rather 
moist sand, in the open, the edges of pine-land depressions suiting 
it perfectly. 
Like our other gentians, this is a late bloomer, and in New Jersey 
is at its best in mid-September. The plants from which our 
illustration has been made were collected by the writer at Parkdale, 
Camden county, New Jersey, September 18, 1916. 
n his “ Plants of Southern New Jersey,” Dr. Witmer Stone says 
of the discovery of this species: “‘ It was apparently first discovered 
by William Bartram, who sent a drawing of it to Edwards, the 
British naturalist, who published it in his Gleanings of Natural 
History, vol. V, p. 98. 1758, as the ‘Autumnal Perennial Gentian 
of the Desert’.” Its first recognition as a species was somewhat 
later by Thomas Walter, who doubtless found the plant in what 
is now Berkeley County, South Carolina. 
The plant is given in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture as 
being in cultivation, and that work may be consulted for instructions 
as to culture. All gentians require peculiar care, and in response 
most are but uncertain. This species, perennating by fleshy roots, 
should be relatively reliable. 
Francis W. PENNELL. 
