CLASS V. ORDER II. HI 



flowers sessile, fascicled, axillary and terminal ; co- 

 rollas ventricose, segments obtuse, inner folds toothed. 



A very fine plant, distinguished by its large purple flowers, 

 which are so nearly closed at the top as to resemble buds. 

 Stem erect, simple, smooth. Leaves opposite, oval-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, smooth, three and sometimes five nerved. Flowers 

 sessile in bunches at the top, and frequently on the sides in the 

 axils of the upper leaves. Corolla bell shaped, purple and white, 

 slightly five cleft, its segments subdivided and folded together 

 so as to close the mouth. — Found in moist woods, Cambridge. — 

 September, October. — Flowers sometimes white or variegated. 



Gentiana pneumonanthe. L. Marsh Gentian. 



Stem round; leaves linear lanceolate, rather ob- 

 tuse ; terminal flowers fascicled, lateral ones solitary ; 

 corollas five cleft, campanulate; segments rounded; 

 inner folds one toothed. 



Allied to the foregoing, but much more slender in all its parts, 

 besides the diSerences of character. — Swamps near Portland. — 

 August. 



Gentiana quinqueflora. Froel. Five Jloioered Gentian. 



Stem square, branching; leaves lance-ovate, three 

 nerved acute. Flowers somewhat in fives, terminal 

 and axillary, corolla tubular campanulate, with five 

 segments setaceously acuminate. 



About a foot high, branching from the base. Leaves of the 

 stem somewhat clasping, very acute; calyx very short; corolla 

 pale blue, slightly inflated, the segments terminating in a bris- 

 tle.— In Sheffield, Mass.— Mr. Russell.— September. 



^ Subgenus Crossopetala. Corolla four deft, hypocrateri- 

 form, throat naked. 



Gentiana crinita. Froel. Fringed Gentian. 



Corollas four cleft, the segments cut-ciiiate; leaves 

 lanceolate, acute ; stem erect, round. Froel. 

 This gentian is exceeded by few native plants in the delicacy 



