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GENTIAN ACE^E . 



FllASERA. 



lower ones a foot long and 2-3 inches wide ; the upper gradually smaller. Flowers nu- 

 merous, forming a long pyramidal leafy compound panicle. Pedicels from half an inch to 

 an inch in length. Calyx deeply 4-parted ; the segments linear-lanceolate, acute. Corolla, 

 when expanded, about an inch in diameter, greenish yellow speckled with purple, deeply 4- 

 parted ; the segments ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, with a large oval beautifully fringed gland 

 in the centre of each. Stamens shorter than the corolla : anthers large, oblong, yellow. 

 Ovary sessile, attenuated above into a short style : stigma of two oblong finally spreading 

 lobes. Capsule about three-fourths of an inch long, oval, much compressed. Seeds about 

 six, one-fourth of an inch long, flattened, with a narrow winged border. Embryo minute, at 

 the extremity of fleshy albumen : cotyledons oval : radicle short and thick. 



On West-Canada creek {Prof. J. Hadley) ; Moscow, Livingston county {Dr. Bradley). 

 Borders of lakes, New-York {Pursh). July. The root of this plant is esteemed a good bitter 

 tonic. It is administered both in the form of powder and infusion. (See Wood <§• Bache's 

 U. S. Dispens. p. 214.) 



3. HALENIA. Borkh. in Rozm. arch. 1. p. 22, ex Endl. gen. 3535. HALENIA. 



[ Etymology uncertain.] 



Calyx 4-parted. Corolla campanulate, 4-cleft ; the segments with a glanduliferous spur at 

 the base. Stigma 2-lobed, nearly sessile. Capsule compressed, 1-celled, 2-valved, many- 

 (or few-) seeded ; the seeds fixed to the sutures. — Herbs, with the flowers in terminal and 

 axillary pedunculate cymules, which are more or less paniculate. 



1. Halenia deflexa, Griseb. Deflexed Halenia. 



Stem erect, leafy ; leaves 3 - 5-nerved ; radical ones oblong-spatulate, the base attenuated 

 into a petiole as long as the lamina ; those of the stem oblong-lanceolate, acute, nearly sessile ; 

 sjmrs cylindrical, obtuse, curved and descending, half the length of the corolla. Griseb. in 

 Hook. fi. Bor.-Am. 2. p. 67. t. 153, Gent. p. 324. Swertia deflexa, Sm. in Rees's cycl. ; 

 Gold, in Edinb. phil. mag. 6. p. 321 ; Torr.Jl. I. p. 186 ; Beck, bot.p. 240. S. corniculata, 

 Michx. fi,-. I. p. 97 ; Pursh, fi. I. p. 100. S. Michauxiana, Rozm. <f- Schult. syst. 6. p. 130. 

 S. Americana, Spreng. syst. 1. p. 861. 



Biennial. Stem 12-18 inches high, 4 -angled, simple or somewhat branched above. 

 Leaves about an inch long. Flowers in terminal cymules ; the pedicels 3-8 lines long. 

 Segments of the calyx lanceolate. Corolla blue ; the segments ovate, acuminate : horns 

 descending and curved outwards. Stamens half as long as the corolla : anthers small, oval. 

 Capsule elliptical, acute. Seeds oblong-cylindrical. 



Borders of small lakes in the northern part of the State {Prof. Hadley). Very near H. 

 Sibirica. 



