﻿A 
  FLORA 
  OF 
  ARKANSAS 
  TERRITORY. 
  

  

  197 
  

  

  124). 
  — 
  Obs. 
  Differs 
  from 
  Cantua 
  merely 
  by 
  the 
  angular 
  seeds. 
  — 
  Hab. 
  

   On 
  the 
  elevated 
  prairies 
  of 
  Red 
  river, 
  where 
  the 
  flowers 
  are 
  of 
  a 
  bright 
  

   scarlet, 
  and 
  spotted 
  with 
  a 
  deeper 
  tinge 
  of 
  colour. 
  

  

  JASMINEAE. 
  

  

  Olea 
  Americana, 
  Willd. 
  Sp. 
  PI. 
  1, 
  p. 
  45; 
  Ic. 
  Catesb. 
  Carol. 
  1, 
  t. 
  

   61. 
  — 
  Hab. 
  On 
  the 
  banks 
  of 
  the 
  Mississippi 
  near 
  New 
  Orleans. 
  

  

  GENTIANEAE. 
  

  

  Gentiana 
  linearis, 
  Willd. 
  Sp. 
  PI. 
  1, 
  p. 
  1339 
  (G. 
  puberula, 
  Mich. 
  

   Flor. 
  Am. 
  1, 
  p. 
  176). 
  

  

  Lisianthus 
  glaucifolius. 
  Foliis 
  ovato-oblongis 
  sessilibus, 
  pedun- 
  

   culis 
  elongatis 
  unifloris, 
  laciniis 
  corollae 
  tubo 
  longioribus. 
  Lamarck, 
  

   Encyc. 
  p. 
  660; 
  Jacquin. 
  ic. 
  rar. 
  1, 
  t. 
  33; 
  Collect. 
  1, 
  p. 
  64. 
  — 
  Obs. 
  

   This 
  plant 
  is 
  so 
  accurately 
  described 
  by 
  Lamarck, 
  that 
  any 
  thing 
  addi- 
  

   tional 
  is 
  almost 
  superfluous. 
  It 
  is 
  a 
  glaucous, 
  somewhat 
  thick 
  and 
  

   smooth 
  leaved 
  herbaceous 
  perennial, 
  of 
  low 
  growth, 
  with 
  a 
  terete 
  

   dichotomously 
  branched 
  stem. 
  The 
  peduncles 
  are 
  long, 
  bearing 
  large 
  

   funnel-formed 
  and 
  somewhat 
  spreading 
  flowers 
  of 
  a 
  violet 
  purple, 
  con- 
  

   siderably 
  darker 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  and 
  within 
  the 
  tube; 
  the 
  segments 
  are 
  

   very 
  deep, 
  oval 
  and 
  acute, 
  and 
  the 
  calix 
  segments 
  much 
  acuminated 
  ; 
  

   the 
  stigma 
  large, 
  capitate 
  and 
  bilamellate 
  ; 
  the 
  capsule 
  2-celled 
  ; 
  the 
  

   seeds 
  numerous, 
  round 
  and 
  punctate, 
  but 
  without 
  margins. 
  The 
  whole 
  

   plant, 
  by 
  habit, 
  evidently 
  approaches 
  the 
  genus 
  Gentiana. 
  — 
  Hab. 
  On 
  

   the 
  sandy 
  banks 
  of 
  the 
  Great 
  Salt 
  river 
  of 
  Arkansas 
  ; 
  rare. 
  It 
  has 
  

   flowered 
  at 
  Mr 
  William 
  Bartram's 
  botanic 
  garden, 
  Kingsessing 
  near 
  

   Philadelphia, 
  in 
  September, 
  and 
  appeared 
  to 
  be 
  sufficiently 
  hardy 
  to 
  

   withstand 
  the 
  climate. 
  

  

  All 
  the 
  species 
  of 
  this 
  genus 
  (twenty-three 
  in 
  Persoon's 
  Synopsis), 
  

   except 
  two 
  in 
  Madagascar, 
  are 
  indigenous 
  to 
  the 
  islands 
  of 
  the 
  West 
  

   Indies 
  and 
  the 
  kingdom 
  of 
  Peru. 
  

  

  1. 
  Sabbatia 
  *campestris. 
  Erecta, 
  foliis 
  ovatis 
  amplexicaulibus, 
  

   pedunculis 
  elongatis 
  subfastigiatis, 
  calicibus 
  alatis, 
  laciniis 
  linearibus 
  ; 
  

   corollam 
  5-partitam 
  superantibus. 
  

  

  Descript. 
  Annual 
  and 
  bitter; 
  stem 
  angular, 
  about 
  one 
  foot 
  high, 
  

   vol. 
  v. 
  — 
  2 
  z 
  

  

  