6 GENTIANACEAE. Vou. III. 
6. Sabbatia campéstris Nutt. Prairie 
Sabbatia. Fig. 3341. 
Sabbatia campestris Nutt. Trans, Amer. Phil, Soc, 
(IL.) 5: 197, 1833-37. 
Stem 4-angled, branched, 6’-15’ high, the 
branches alternate or dichotomous, or the lowest 
opposite. Leaves ovate, oblong or lanceolate, 
mostly obtuse at the apex, sessile or slightly 
clasping and subcordate at the base, #’-1’ long; 
flowers solitary at the ends of the branches and 
peduncles, 1’-2’ broad; peduncles, 1’-2’ long; 
calyx 5-ribbed or almost 5-winged, its lobes lan- 
ceolate, acute, 6-12” long, about as long as the 
obovate lilac corolla-segments, becoming rather 
pigid in fruit; style 2-cleft; capsule oblong, 3-4” 
high. 
On prairies, Missouri and Kansas to Texas. 
7. Sabbatia stellaris Pursh. Sea or Marsh 
Pink. Fig. 3342. 
Sabbatia stellaris Pursh, Fl, Am. Sept. 1: 137. 1814. 
Chironia stellata Muhl. Cat. Ed. 2, 23. 1818. 
Stem nearly terete, or slightly 4-angled, usually 
much branched, 62° high, the branches alternate, 
Leaves lanceolate-oblong to linear, sessile, 2’-2’ 
long, 2’-s’” wide, or the lowest smaller, some- 
what obovate and obtuse, the uppermost narrowly 
linear and bract-like; flowers 9-18” broad, usu- 
ally numerous, solitary at the ends of the branches 
or slender peduncles; calyx not ribbed, its lobes 
narrowly linear, shorter than or nearly equalling 
the oblong or obovate corolla-segments; corolla 
pink to white with a yellowish starry eye bor- 
dered with red; style 2-cleft to below the middle; 
capsule about 23” high. 
In salt-meadows, coast of Massachusetts to Flor- 
ida. Recorded from Maine, Called also Rose-of- 
Plymouth. July—Sept. 
8. Sabbatia Elliéttii Steud. Elliott’s 
Sabbatia. Fig. 3343. 
Swertia difformis L. Sp. Pl. 226. 1753? - 
Sabbatia paniculata Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1: 282. 
1817, Not Pursh, 1814. 
S. Elliottii Steud. Nomencl. Ed. 2, 2: 489. 1841. 
Stem paniculately branched, terete or slightly 
ridged, 1°-2° high, the branches alternate. 
Lower leaves obovate or lanceolate-oblong, 
obtuse, 6’-9” long, the upper and those of the 
branches narrowly linear or subulate; flowers 
very numerous, white, solitary at the ends of 
the branches and short peduncles, 1’ broad or 
less; calyx not ribbed, its lobes subulate-linear, 
one-half as long as the spatulate or oblanceo- 
late segments of the corolla, or less; style 
2-parted; capsule about 24” high. 
In pine-barrens, Virginia and North Carolina to 
Florida. Quinine-flower. July-Sept. 
