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PENTANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Gentiana. 
Segments of the calyx awl-shaped, open. Blossom expandings segments 
elliptical, sharp-pointed, spotted with black. Stamens awl-shaped. 
Anthers vane-like. Seed-bud egg-shaped, compressed. Style very short, 
deeply divided. Herb very bitter. FI. Brit. E.) 
Marsh Felwort. In watery alpine meadows. (Found in Wales by Dr. 
Richardson, according to Hudson ; but this discovery seems not to have 
been confirmed. E.) P. Aug. 
GENTIA'NA.* * Bloss. one petal, tubular at the base, without 
nectariferous pores : Recept. of the seeds two, placed 
lengthwise : Caps, one-celled. 
G. pneumonan'the. Blossoms five-cleft, bell-shaped, pedunculate: 
leaves strap-shaped. 
Dicks. H. S. — Kniph. 8 —FI. Dan. 269— E. Bot. 20— Gmel. iv. 51. A .— 
Matth. 646— Clus. i. 313. 2— Lob. Obs. 166. 2— Ger. Em. 438— Park.. 
406.1—7/. Ox. xii. 5. 12— Ger. 355—Barr. 51 .1 —J. B. iii. 524. 1. 
( Stem about a span high, upright, undivided, leafy, quadrangular. Flowers 
few, large, terminal and axillary, of a beautiful blue colour, plaited; the 
folds greenish. Anthers united at the base. Styles reflexed. The plant 
bitter to the taste. FI. Brit. E.) 
The flowers not being invariably opposite, even in large and cultivated spe¬ 
cimens, that circumstance is omitted in the Sp. Char. 
Calathian Violet. Marsh Gentian. (Harvest Bells. Welsh: 
Crwynllys y rhos; Blodau Mihangel. E.) Moist pastures. Stratton 
Heath, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. Newton Heath, near Manchester. Mr. Ca- 
ley. Rollesby Heath, and Hopton Heath, near Yarmouth. Mr. Wigg. In 
a marsh on a heath near Holmes Chapel, Cheshire. Mr. Hunter. Walney 
Isle. Mr. Jackson. (Near Bootle, and on Childwall Common, near 
Liverpool. Dr. Bostock and Mr. Shepherd. In Purbeck, and moist 
grounds on heaths, Dorset. Pulteney. Howgill Castle woods, Cumber¬ 
land. Hutchinson. In a field between Maryport and Flimby, near the 
latter place. Mr. Winch. Bagerley Moor, Cheshire. Mr. W. Christy. 
Rough heaths near Holyhead. Welsh Bot. E.) P. Aug.f 
(G. ver'na. Blossom five-cleft, salver-shaped, crenate: segments 
auricled at the base: leaves crowded, ovate. Sm. 
E. Bot. 493— Jacq. Obs. 71 — Cam. Hort. 15. 2— Clus. Hist. 315— Lob. Ic. 
310. 2— Ger. Em. 436— Park. 403. 
Stem simple, supporting a single flower, ascending. Leaves rather fleshy, 
dotted with glands, ovate, not at all pointed ; four or six in opposite 
pairs near the root, and two or three pairs on the stem. These pairs are 
united at the base so as to form a kind of cup round the stem. Calyx 
rather more than half the length of the tube of the blossom. Blossom 
fine blue, seldom so long as the stem ; segments serrated and toothed ; 
between each segment is a little blue bicornate appendage issuing from 
* (Named after Gentius, a king of Illyria; who, if we rightly understand Dioscorides 
and Pliny, first discovered the antidotal virtues of a certain species. E.) 
*j* (This elegant plant may be worthy of garden culture, but requires a moist, loamy soil. 
t( The gallant flowers hereof be in their braverie about the end of August:—of so beautifull 
a colour, that it passeth the very blewe itselfe.” Ger. E.) 
