Volume 8 — PLATE DIX.

GENTIANA FIMBRIATA.

Fringed-flowered Gentian.

CLASS V. ORDER II.

PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Five Chives. Two Pointals.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx monophyllus. Corolla monopetala. Capsula bivalvis, unilocularis, receptaculis duobus longitudinalibus.

Empalement one-leafed. Blossom one petal. Capsule two-valved, one-celled, with two longitudinal receptacles.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Gentiana corollis quadrifidis, marginibus fimbriatis, colore cæruleo, in sole tantùm expandentibus, spithamæis: foliis ovato-acuminatis, oppositis, alternatis.

Habitat in America boreali.

Gentian with blossoms four-cleft, and fringed margins, of a blue colour, expanding only in the sun, a span high, with ovate-pointed leaves opposite and alternate.

Native of North America.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

This 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 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.