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which, with the fpiral difpofition of 
the flowers, fufficiently afcertain the 
fpecies. The Englifti name is Trip- 
pie Ladies-traces. There are no lefs 
than 28 fpecies of this genus, eleven 
of which are natives of this kingdom. 
That plant, about a foot high, Gentia- 
with feveral branched ftems, termi- na " 
nated by bunches of blue cup-fafhi- 
oned flowers, is of a very irregular 
genus, which, therefore, folicits your 
attention. It is a Gentiana, of which 
Linnseus enumerates 39 fpecies: of 
thefe, five only are natives of this 
ifland. They are according to Lin- 
nasus, of the Clafs and Order Pen- 
tandria Digynia; but of thefe five, 
two properly belong to the Clafs T^e- 
trandria, where you will find them 
in the Synopfis-, and where they cer- 
tainly ought to be. If the prime dif- 
tinclion, that of Clafs, be not abfo- 
lute, the fyftem is of no ufe to a 
young Botanift. This plant, how- 
ever, which you have gathered, has 
fiveftamna. It is the Gentiana ama- 
rella, Autumnal Gentian, or Felwort. 
The 
