192 BOTANY. 
introrse; capsule linear-oblong, short-stipitate, enclosed in the corolla; seeds 
oblong.—Alpine regions of the Rocky Mountains, also in Asia, and rare in 
Europe, where it is said to have usually 5-parted flowers. 
GeNTIANA rricipA, Henke. Griseb. l. c. 111. Gray, Syn. 120.—Ces- 
pitose stems, 1-5’ high, with fibrous roots; leaves linear to spatulate, 
thickish, pale, 1-3’ long, their bases forming a long sheath; calyx half as 
long as the corolla, with subulate lobes and, frequently, a cleft tube; flowers 
1-3, crowded on top, funnel-shaped, 14’ long, yellowish or greenish-white, 
spotted with red and brown; lobes broad-triangular, acute; reddish plaits 
wide, oblique, undulate-crenulate, almost entire; anthers free; seeds broad, 
narrowly winged, with crested ridges. 
Springy places, in the alpine regions of the Rocky Mountains, and in 
Asia; very rare in Europe—A very handsome plant in the color of its 
flowers. Its mode of growth is entirely different from any other of our 
species. The flowering stems bear in the axils of their lowest leaf-pair, 
within its long sheath, or breaking through it, leaf-buds which in the 
succeeding year produce flowering stems, while the base of the old stem 
withers away. The roots are therefore only of one year’s growth, thin 
and filiform, never thick, as those of most other Pnewmonanthes, nor is 
there a real caudex. 
GentTiana Parryr, Engelm. Trans. Acad. St. Louis, 2, 218, pl. 10. 
Gray, Syn. 121—Few ascending stems from thick fasciculate roots, about 
a span high; leaves glaucescent, thickish, about 1’ long, broadly ovate to 
oblong-lanceolate, with a sheathing base, especially in the lower ones; the 
uppermost boat-shaped and keeled, involucrating the single or few clustered 
flowers, concealing the calyx and often almost equal to the large deep-blue 
corolla; lobes of calyx linear, short, sometimes almost obliterated, shorter 
than the campanulate often once- or even twice-cleft tube; corolla 13’ long, 
somewhat ventricose, its lobes short, broad, acutish, not much exceeding 
the narrow deeply 2 -cleft appendages; anthers free ; seeds linear-lanceolate, 
wingless——Moist grassy places in the alpine and sub-alpine regions of 
Colorado and Utah. 
GENTIANA A¥FINIS, Griseb. J. c. 114. Gray, Syn. 122—Many stems, 
from a stout rootstock, with thick fasciculate roots, a span to a foot high, 
