No. 476. 
GENTIANA ALPINA. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA DIGY NIA. 
We received this plant from Switzerland, 
which is its native country, about two years 
since: it lowered in the month of Septem- 
ber, and is in all respects very much like 
the acaulis. The corolla may be called 
ten-cleft, as it has a lesser division between 
each of the five principal ones. 1t seems 
to be a smaller plant than acaulis, and like 
it, runs at the root, by which it can be pro- 
pagated. It succeeds well in a pot in light 
loam, and is perfectly hardy. 
