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The generic character is: Corolla 
monopetalous; capfula bivalve unilo- 
cular; receptaqtlumZwOj longitudinal. 
The Linnsean character of thejpecies 
is corollis quinquefidis hypocrateriformi- 
bus,fauce barbatis. But, fays Relhan, 
numerus fegmentorum calych et corolla, 
nil valet: fo that you muft depend 
principally on this beard, which, by 
the bye, is infide the mouth. The 
leaves, you obferve, are lance- fhaped. 
Pliny fays the plant Gentian was fo 
called from Gentius, King of Illyria< 
I do not remember the name of any 
other King of this country. There 
is indeed a Duke of Illyria, with 
whom I have the pleafure to be well 
acquainted. His name is Orfino. 
You remember him in The Twelfth 
Night. Sir Thomas Hanmer, in The 
Winters Vale, alters the kingdom of 
Polixenes from Bohemia to Bithynia, 
on a fuppofition that it was a blun- 
der of fome tranfcriber; becaufe he 
thinks it impoflible that Shakefpeare 
ihould have been fo ignorant, as not 
to know, that Bohemia was an in- 
land country; whereas the kingdom 
which 
