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fruit is an oval, unilocular capfiile, wrapped up In the 
empalement having one large feed like a lhail. 
Kali, Glajfwort with fubulated, lharp pointed leaves, 
and oval empalements proceeding from. the fides of the 
ftalks. On the fea Ihore. July^ Aug, 
S W E R T I A. Marsh Gentian. 
The cup is quinquepartite, plain and endures till the 
fruit be ripe, having lanceolated fegments. There is 
but one petal, and no tube. The limb is plain and 
quinquepartite and the fegments are lanceolated, larger 
than the cup, and joined by means of ungues. There 
are ten nedlaria, two in the bafe of every fegment of the 
corolla hollowed and furrounded with fmall, eredt brif- 
ties. There are five fubulated credo-patent filaments 
fhorter than the corolla with incumbent antherae. The 
germen is ovato-oblong, without any ftyle, but two fim- 
ple fligmata. The fruit is a round, acuminated, unilo- 
cular, capfule with many fmall feeds. 
Obf. There are fomefpecies withquadrifid flowers. 
Ferennis, Mar/Ji Gentian with quinquifid flowers and 
the radical leaves oval. Per, Aug, 
GENTIAN A. Gentian or Fellwort. 
The cup is quinquepartite, acute and the fegments 
are oblong and remain till the fruit be ripe. The flower 
confifls of one tubulated, imperforated, quinquifid petal, 
that withers away, and is of various fhapes. There are 
five fubulated filaments fhorter than the corolla with 
fimple antherae. The germen is oblong, cylindraceous' 
and the length of the ftamina, without any flyles but 
two oval fligmata. The fruit is an oblong, round, acu- 
minated capfule, nightly bifid in the apex and unilocu- 
lar, with two valves, containing numerous fmall feeds. 
There are two receptacles growing longitudinally to the 
valve. 
Obf. The fruit is of a conftant figure but the num- 
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