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on both fides of the Stalk, three for the molt pait 
ltanding together, except the uppermolt of all, 
where they lbnd five together, each of them with 
a fhort Footltalk under them, confuting ol five fmall 
lharp pointed Leaves, fpread like a Star, ol a pale 
blew color, finely fpotted, with many fmall black 
fpecks on the infide, having a fmall umbone in the 
middle , and five fmall Threads tipt with yellow 
ltanding about it •, the Seed, which follows the 
Flowers, is fmall , ar.d enclofed in fuch Heads or 
Husks as the Gentians ufually have. 
Englijla Gentian Small. 
one of them a reafonable large Flower , which is 
hollow, and larger than any other of the Autumna- 
Jes , and is in molt of a very deep blewilh purple 
color, but in 1'ome a little paler, and ending in five 
points or corners. 
Small Autumn Gentian \ 
Calatbian Violet 5 
Or 
Autumn Bell Flower. 
IX. The Jixth , or Engl ifh Gentian, has , according 
to Clulius, a fmall Root, replenifhed with a few li- 
tres or Strings , of a yellowifh color , from which rijfes 
up a round Jlijf Stalk , or Stalks , firm and folid , 
Jomewhat readijh at bottom , and jointed or kneed 
Jomewhat like unto Crofswort Gentian ^ the Leaves 
are broad, fmooth, and full of Ribs or Sinews, fet 
about the Stalk by couples, one oppofite againlt a- 
nother •, the flowers grow upon fmall llender Stalks, 
compofed of five llender blewilh Leaves, very cu- 
rioully fpotted, with many black Spots and fmall 
little Lines, having in the midlt five fmall Chives, 
which pafiing away, give Seed fmall like Sand. 
X. The jcvcnih, or Autumn Gentian, called the 
Calathian A iolet, hew a Root which is fmalf long , 
and manifold , running down for the mofl part deep- 
er into the Ground than mofl of the former , which 
Gerard jays perifhes af ter it has perfected its Seed , 
fp ringing up again from the falling of its Seed, which 
ts a mi flake , and is refit lied by Parkinfon, for the 
R ot is truly ajiringy , and femewhat creeping , (tho 1 
deep in the Earth) and living Root , abiding after 
Seed time , and mt perifhing as the refl ■, it riles up 
fometimes with more and fometimes with fewer 
Stalks, fometimes they alfo rife higher, as to be 
two Feet high , and fometimes not above a Foot 
high, according to the Fertility of the Soil, of a 
brownilh green color, having many long and narrow 
dark green Leaves , fet by couples on them up to 
the tops, which fcldom branch forth, but bear every 
XI. The eighth , or Autumn Gentian with fmall 
Centory Leaves , has a Root which is fmall flriking 
down into the Ground , with feveral Fibres adjoining 
to it, from which fpring up J ever a l Stalks , not a Toot 
high , divided into feveral Jmall Branches , on which 
ft and two fmall Leaves together , as is ufual in all the 
Gentians, very like unto thofe of the Lelfer Centory, 
which are not fo long as the former, a little broader , 
and of a whiter green color -, at the tops of the Stalks 
and Branches grow feveral Orient Blew Flowers, 
not fo large as thofe of the laft defciibed, but fet in 
fmall long Husks, half way rifing up above the tops 
of them ^ after which comes imall Seed in long 
horned Cods or Veffels. 
XII. The ninth, or Small Autumn Gentian, Am- 
ply fo called, hat a Root like the former, but a little 
larger, which fends up a pretty ft iff round Stalk, of 
a Span high, or fomething mere, which at certain Jpa- 
ces is fet with fuch Leaves iw the lafl deferibed, but 
larger, and out of the boloms of thefe Leaves, from 
the bottom to the top of the Stalk , fpring forth 
little F ootftalks, which ufually cany three Flowers 
apiece, two fet one againlt another, and the third 
upon a Stalk fomewhat higher, and fomtimes there 
comes forth a Angle Flower at the Root of thefe 
Footftalks } the Flowers in their jbape or form, mag- 
nitude, and color, are like to thole in rhe laft delcri- 
bed, as ail'd their Seed and Seed Veffels ^ the man- 
ner of the growing of this is veiy well reprelented 
by the Gent i ana major T/ore cceruieo , mentioned in 
Chap. hi. Sefl. aforegoing, laving, that that is 
very large , and this is very fmall , and of the pe- 
rifhing Kind. 
XIII. The 
