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NAT. ORDER. GENTIANE^. 
nearer the top ; the flowers are in pairs opposite, on short peduncles ; 
rather large, bell-shaped, and of a fine blue color. This is also said 
to be a native of Switzerland. It flowers in July and August. 
Gentiana linearis. Linear Gentian. The stem is rough ; leaves 
linear lanceolate, undulate, ciliate ; flowers capitate, sessile ; corolla 
campanulate five cleft, with the internal folds denticulate. This 
plant is a native of the Alleghany Mountains. 
Gentiana ochroleuca. Pale Gentian. Stem rough angular ; leaves 
elliptic rough ; flowers capitate, sessile ; corolla ventricose closed, 
five cleft, inner folds simple, acute. This is a native of this country, 
and is found in most abundance in the State of New York and 
Pennsylvania. The flowers are of a yellowish white. 
Gentiana heterophylla. Grey Gentian. Stem simple, erect, round, 
smooth ; leaves subtrinerve, lower oboval, obtuse, medial, elliptic, 
upper oblong, accute ; flowers terminal, sessile, two or four ; calyx 
campanulate ; segments cuncate, obtuse ; corolla ventricose, five cleft. 
This is also a native of this country. It is found in Virginia, East 
Kentucky, and Tennessee ; the flowers are of a pale bluish grey. 
It is sometimes called Flux-root, and used for the dysentery. 
Gentiana serpentaria. Snake-root Gentian. Stem smooth, flex- 
uose, subangular ; leaves obovate or oblong, subobtuse, subtrinerve, 
undulated ; flowers fascicled sessile ; bracteoles petiolate ; calyx 
campanulate, angular ; segments linear and carinate ; corolla tubu- 
lar, five-cleft; segments obtuse notched, inner folds lacerated. This 
root is considered a specific for men or cattle bitten by rattle-snakes 
and copper-heads ; it is also said to stupify snakes. It is a native 
of Indiana and Illinois. 
Gentiana shortiana. Shortain Gentian. Several assurgent stems, 
rough, ancipital, one-flowered ; leaves oblong or cuneiform, as long 
as the intervals, glaucous beneath, edges rough, uninerve, the lower 
obtuse ; flowers sessile bracteate, calycinal segments, short, oblong ; 
corolla nearly companulate, five cleft, internal folds lacerated. This 
is common in the glades of Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, &c. The 
