360 GENTIAN ACE2E. (GENTIAN FAMILY.) 
monly mucronate ; appendages short, triangular and entire; anthers 
united ; seeds narrowly winged. (G. Sapon&ria, var. linekris, Griseb. 
partly.) — Swamps near Portland, Maine: mountains of N. New 
York, and northward. Aug. 
5. O. Saponaria, L. (Soapwort Gentian.) Stem erect 
or ascending, often roughish above ; the flowers clustered at the sum¬ 
mit and more or less so in the axils; leaves ovate-lanceolate, oblong, or 
lanceolate-obovate, with rough margins , narrowed at the base ; calyx- 
lobes linear or spatulate, acute, equalling or exceeding the tube, half 
the length of the corolla; lobes of the club-bell-shaped blue corolla 
roundish-ovate, mostly obtuse , erect or converging, or sometimes expand¬ 
ing, more or less longer than the conspicuous 2-cleft and minutely tooth¬ 
ed appendages; anthers united; seeds acute, narrowly winged. (G. 
Catesbsei, Walt.)— V ar. 1. FrcELicHii, Torr. Gr. Slender and 
wand-like, smooth ; leaves linear, elongated (3' long, 4" wide), acut- 
ish ; appendages of the coroila less cleft. (G. linekris, Fred. G. ru- 
bricahlis, Schwein.)—Y ar. 2. puberula, Torr. Gr. Rigid, rough¬ 
ish with a minute pubescence; leaves varying from oblong-lanceolate 
to narrowly-linear, usually short, often broader next the base; corolla 
open; anthers soon separating; lobes of the corolla acutish, fully 
twice the length of the appendages. (G. puberula, Michx.) — Woods, 
S. New York ( Herb . Schwein.) and New Jersey, rare; common south¬ 
ward : the var. 1 in mountain bogs and glades from Penn, south¬ 
ward ; var. 2 in dry barrens and prairies, Ohio and westward. Sept. 
_A variable species; the primary form resembling G. Andrewsn, 
from which the manifest corolla-lobes distinguish it; the var. 1 too 
near No. 4; while the var. 2, on account of its rigid foliage, roughness, 
and open corolla larger in proportion, ordinarily appears like a very 
distinct species. 
6. O. ©cliroleuca, Frcel. (Yellowish-White Gentian.) 
Stems ascending, mostly smooth; the flowers in a dense terminal 
cluster and often also in axillary clusters ; leaves obovate-oblong, the 
lowest broadly obovate and obtuse, the uppermost somewhat lanceo¬ 
late, all narrowed at the base ; calyx-lobes linear, unequal, much longer 
than its tube, rather shorter than the greenish-white open corolla, which 
is painted inside with green veins and lilac-purple stripes; its lobes 
ovate, very much exceeding the small and sparingly toothed oblique 
appendages; anthers separate; pod included in the persistent corolla; 
seeds entirely wingless! — Dry grounds, S. Penn, (rare), and common 
through the middle and low country of the Southern States. Sept., 
Oct.—Very different from the next, which Grisebach confounded 
with it. 
- 7. e. alba, Muhl. Cat.! (Whitish Gentian.) Stems up¬ 
right, stout, very smooth ; flowers closely sessile and much crowded 
in a dense terminal cluster, and sometimes also clustered in the upper 
