74 ENGLTSTT BOTANY. 
often denticulate. Plant glabrous, dark-green ; leaves paler beneath, 
with the margins very finely cartilaginous-serrate. 
Calathian Violet 
French, Gentiane St Feuilles /■.'/mites. German, Gemeine Genziane. 
This pretty little plant is worthy of cultivation, and is quaintly mentioned by 
Gerarde, who Bays, "The gallant flowres hereof bee in their bravery about the end ot 
August" and he tells us that "the later physibions hold it to be effectual against 
pestilent diseases, and the bitinga and stingings of venomous beasts." 
SPECIES IT.-GENTI AN A VERNA. Linn. 
Plate DCCCCXV. 
Reich. Ic El. Cerm. et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MLXVIII. Fig. 4. 
Billot, H. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. Xo. 1935. 
Root-fibres slender. Rootstock much branched, shortly creep- 
ing, emitting numerous stolons with scale-like leaves. Flowering- 
stem simple, very short. Radical leaves in a rosette, oval or oblong- 
oval ; leaves of the flowering-stem oblong-oval, very shortly connate 
at its base; all sub-acute, flat, 1-nerved. Mower solitary, terminal, 
with 2 oval leal-like bracts near the base of the calyx. Calyx- 
tube prismatic, sharply 5-anglcd or 5-winged ; segments 5, strap* 
Bhaped-lanceolate, one-third the length of the tube. Corolla-tube 
not quite twice as long as the calyx, cylindrical, without hairs in the 
throat ; limb of 5 broadly-oval obtuse segments, about one-fourth 
the length of the tube, not ciliated, alternating with 5 minute 
f< < ih about one-sixth of their own length. Capsule sessile or 
sub-sessile. 
On rocky and stony places in limestone districts. Rare. Along 
the course of the Tees, from Mickle Fell, down to Cronkley 
Sens, and between Gort and (Jalway and Burrin, co. Clare. 
England, Ireland. Perennial. Spring. 
l'lanl csespitose, the divisions of the rootstock terminating in 
rosette-like tufts of leaves ',, to | inch long. Flowering-stems very 
short, sometimes not more than }, inch when in flower, lengthening 
in fruit till from 1 to 3 inches long. Calyx-tube with 5 raised 
bins or wings, which are decurrent from the midribs of the seg- 
ments. Tube of the corolla about 1 inch long; limb J to 1 inch 
across, dark vivid-blue. Riant green, glabrous. 
Spring Gentian. 
French, Geniicme Printaniere. German, Fruhlvngs Germane 
