JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vou. XVII June, 1916 No. 198 
WILD PLANTS NEEDING PROTECTION* 
12. ‘‘FRINGED GENTIAN” (Gentiana crinita Froel.) 
(With Plate CLX XII) 
All lovers of wild flowers, love the ‘‘fringed gentian,” love it 
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flattened, sheathing calyx, and thus defeat the object of that 
exquisite 4-leaved table spread so temptingly for the last floral 
feast! 
The fringed gentians used to grow in large colonies around th 
lake in Van Courtland Park and in the swamp at the ene 
but with the moccasin-flower and other ae as wild flowers ae 
ea for May (17: 63-80) was issued June 22, 1916) 
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