NAT. ORDER. GENTIANEiE. 
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flower is blue, and the stem sometimes only about four inches long. 
It was named in honor, and dedicated to Dr. Short of Kentucky. 
Gentiana torregana. Torreyan Gentian. Stem erect, rough, 
quadrangular ; leaves linear-lanceolate, obtuse, glaucous, short, twice 
as long as the intervals, uninerve, clasping, often revolute ; flowers 
three to five, terminal, sessile, calycinal segments, linear, as long as 
the tube ; corolla nearly campanulate, five cleft, segments acute, inner 
folds entire. This grows in the glades in the middle States. The 
flowers are blue, about one inch long. Dedicated to Dr. Torrey, 
Gentiana rigida. Stiff Gentian. Stem stiff, round, rough ; leaves 
lanceolate, acute, stiff, small, subtrinerve, clasping, longer than the 
intervals ; flowers one to five terminal, calycinal segments linear, as 
long as the tube ; corolla campanulate, five cleft, segments acute, 
inner folds. It is found growing in West Kentucky, and Tennessee. 
The stem is red, flower blue, one inch long, leaves glaucous beneath, 
and small. / 
Gentiana quinqueflora. Five flowered Gentian. This plant is 
easily known by its branched winged stem ; which is small, oval, 
and the leaves clasping ; the flowers five cleft, small, axillary by 
bunches of three, four or five, and blue. This is common from New 
England to Kentucky, and the best substitute for the officinal gentian ; 
the whole plant may be used, being intensely bitter like Sahhatia 
angularis. 
Gentiana amarelloides. Yellow bunch Gentian. This differs 
from the former, by its having oval lanceolate leaves, stem round 
with four small angles ; flowers axillary and terminal, yellowish ; 
calyx longer foliaceous. It is an inhabitant of Kentucky, Illinois, 
and other Western States. It is an annual, and equally valuable in 
medicine. 
Gentiana crinita. Fringed Gentian. Easily known by its lance- 
olate leaves, large solitary flowers, on long peduncles, with a fringed 
four cleft corolla. This is an elegant species, and is found from New 
York to South Carolina ; a perennial. 
