. GENTIA'NA INCARNA'TA. 
FLESH-COLOURED GENTIAN. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
GENTIANACE^. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration 
Introduced 
N.America 
2 feet. 
October. 
Perennial. 
in 1812. 
No. 924. 
This genus, Gentiana, was named after the King 
of Illyria, a country bordering on the Adriatic Sea. 
Gentiana being an extensive genus, has, by some 
continental authors,been divided into several others ; 
but their distinctions are not satisfactory. Our 
plant is the Pneumonanthe incarnata of these 
writei’s. It is not very generally met with in culti- 
vation, on account of its being slow of increase. 
It is impatient of too much management; we mean, 
disturbance. It loves a home in peat and loam, 
where from year to year it may rest in quietude ; 
and like the plodding economist, content in his own 
narrow sphere ; adds, imperceptably, to his little 
stock, nor seeks a fortune by railway speed. 
The whole of the Order Gentianacese is remark- 
able for the uniform bitterness of all the plants which 
it comprises. Gentiana lutea, the well-known 
bitter of our shops, is perhaps the most prominent 
example. Dr. Paris, in his Pharmacologia ob- 
serves that bitter extractive seems to be as essen- 
tial to the digestion of herbivorous, as salt is to 
that of carnivorous animals. No cattle will thrive 
upon grasses which do not contain a portion of this 
