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DESCRIPTION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
and sometimes lateral leafy clusters. Calyx-lobes linear, un- 
equal, longer than the tube; the longer little exceeded by the 
somewhat open-funnel form, greenish white corolla, which is 
greenish-veiny and often purplish-striped and 1 long; its 
lobes triangular-ovate and acute, much exceeding the 3-an- 
gular and oblique and entire or sparingly toothed appendages. 
Dry, damp ground. FI. September. It occurs scatteringly,. 
and never in great numbers together. The root, collected 
in autumn. 
Gentiana quinqueflora, Lam. Five-flowered Gentian. A 
foot or two high, leafy ; the larger plants branching ; leaves 
ovate-lanceolate, with subcordate, partly clasping base, 3-7- 
nerved, the upper acute or cuspidate-acuminate; inflores- 
cence thyrsoid-paniculate ; the clusters 3-5-flowered ; calyx 
one-fifih or one-fourth the leugth of the narrow, funnelform^ 
bright-blue corolla ; its lobes linear-subulate ; corolla J-f r 
long, its lobes ovate, 3-angular, short. Mountains of East 
Tennessee, Chilhowee and Frog Mountains. Not yet observed 
in the Cumberlands. It is the only handsome one of the 
species found in Tennessee. August-September. Eli Lilly 
& Co. use it for a fluid extract. The herb or root, collected 
in summer. 
Frasera Carolinensis, American Columbo. Tall and showy 
herbaceous biennial or triennial, 3-8° high, with a thick 
root, upright and mostly simple stems, bearing whorled 
leaves and numerous peduncled flowers in open cymes, dis- 
posed in an ample elongated panicle ; smooth, leaves in 
fours, lance-oblong, the lowest spatulate, veiny ; corolla V 
broad, light greenish-yellow, deeply 4-parted, wheel-shaped, 
each division with a glandular and fringed pit on the face, 
its divisions oblong, mucronate, longer than the narrowly- 
lanceolate calyx lobes, each with a large round gland below 
the middle; capsule much flattened, parallel with the flat 
valves. June. Over the State, single or in small patches. 
Never found many in one locality. Near Lavergne, Ruth- 
erford County, I found more than anywhere else. FI. in 
June. Collect roots in fall. 
