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G E N T I A N A FIMBRIATA.
Frìnged-flowered Gen ti an.
CLASS V. ORDER II.
PENT ANURIA DIGYNIA. Five Chives. Two Pointais.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
CALTX monophyllus. Corolla monopetala. Capsula
bivalvis, uDilocularis, receptaculis duobus
longitudinalibus.
EMPALEMENT one-leafed. Blossom one petal,
Capsule two-valved, one-celled, with two
longitudinal receptacles.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
GEKTIANA corollis quadrlfidis, marginibus fimbriatis,
colore ceeruleo, in sole tantilm expandentibus,
spitliamaeis : foliis ovato-acuminatis,
oppositisj alternatis.
Habitat in America boreali.
G E N T I A N with blossoms four-cleft, and fringed
margins, of a blue colour, expanding only
in tlie sun, a span high, with ovate-pointed
leaves opposite and alternate.
Native of North America,
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. A blossom spread open.
3. Seed-bud and pointais.
4. The same spread open.
T H I S new and undescribed species of Gentian possesses many attractions. Its flowers are of a fine
shining purply blue colour, and remain a long time in perfection, but only expand with the assistance
of the solar ray. Our figure represents a group of seedling plants, just as we found them growing
in a small pot in the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Brames, who inform me they raised them from
seed, and they flowered the second year, but think they will only prove biennial.