GENTIANACEJ!. 431 



3. Gentiana affinis, Qriseb. 



Gentiana affinis, Griseb. Gent. p. 289, & in Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 2, p. 56 ; & in 

 DC. Prodr. 9, p. 114. 



Hab. In moist places on the Cascade Mountains, Washington Ter- 

 ritory. 



4. Gentiana acuta, Michx. ? Var. 



Gentiana acuta, Michx. Fl. 1, p. 114. 



Hab. Mountains of Northern California; in wet places. — Plant 

 about a span high, more or less branched, slender. Inflorescence 

 loose and somewhat racemose ; the flowers mostly solitary, and on ped- 

 icels 5 to 10 lines long. Calyx 5-parted almost to the base, sometimes 

 scarcely half the length of the tube of the corolla, but more com- 

 monly nearly equalling it. Corolla " cream color, with a blue tint," 

 about 8 lines long, 5-lobed ; the lobes less than half the length of the 

 tube, oblong, obtuse, entire, covered with about 12 slender subulate 

 processes, arising from near the base of the lobe. Stamens 5 ; with no 

 glands at the base of the filaments. Capsule oblong-linear, conspicu- 

 ously stipitate, at length partly exserted. Seeds orbicular, much com- 

 pressed, wingless. 



3. MENYANTHES, Tourn. 



1. Menyanthes trifoliata, Linn. 



Hab. Upper Columbia, Washington Territory, and southward to 

 San Francisco. — Kesembling in all respects the plant of the Eastern 

 States and of Europe. 



