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PENTANDRIA, DIGYNIA. 
erinita. 
Saponaria. 
corymbose-terminal.^ — Willd. and Furslu 
A. decumbens, Walt. 
Icon. Bart. Veg. Mat. Med. U. S. vol. 1. 1. 22. 
Pleurisy -root. Butterfly -weed^ ^c. 
The most beautiful of all the American species. Flowers of 
a rich orange-red, and exceedingly brilliant. The root, as the 
above name implies, possesses medicinal virtues. As a medi- 
cine it has been much extolled. (See Veg. Mat. Med. U. S.) 
Perennial. June, July. 
125. GENTIANA. Gen. pi. 450. f 
Calix half 5-cleft, or half 5-parted. Corolla 
tubulous at the base, campanulate, border 
4 or 5 -cleft; divisions ciliate or entire, 
spreading, erect or connivent, sometimes 
furnished with intermediate plaits. Stami- 
na 4 or 5, distinct or connate. Capsule S- 
valved, 1-celled; receptacles S, longitudi- 
nal. — jsr utt. 
1. G. corolla 4-cleft, segments fimbriate ; leaves 
lanceolate, acute ; stem erect, terete. — Sp. PI. 
G. fimbriata, Bot. Mag. 
A beautiful plant about twelve inches high. Flowers bluish- 
purple, and elegantly fringed. In the woods bordering the 
road above the falls of Schuylkill, and about a quarter or half 
a mile from the river. Not common. I have met with it only 
there. Biennial. September, October. 
2. G. stem terete, smooth, leaves oblong-lanceo- 
late, three-nerved, flowers sessile, fasciculated, 
terminal and axillary, corolla 5-fid, campanulate 
ventricose^ divisions obtuse. — Willd. 
G. fimbriata, Vahl. 3. p. 47. 
G. Catesbsei, Walt. 
Icon. Catesb. car. 1. t. 70. Bot. Mag. 1039. 
Bot. Rep. 418. 
Soapwort- Gentian. 
A very beautiful plant, easily known by its fine Prussian 
blue flowers. The corolla is always closed. From twelve to 
