. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. GENTIANACEAE. Vol. III. 51. lanceolate S. brachiata. S. angularis. S. calycina. S. catnpestris. anthers linear or oblong, curved, revolute or coiled in anthesis. Ovary i-celled, the placentae intruded; style 2-cleft or 2-parted, its lobes filiform, stigmatic along their inner sides. Cap- sule ovoid or globose, 2-valved, many-seeded. Seeds small, r
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. GENTIANACEAE. Vol. III. 51. lanceolate S. brachiata. S. angularis. S. calycina. S. catnpestris. anthers linear or oblong, curved, revolute or coiled in anthesis. Ovary i-celled, the placentae intruded; style 2-cleft or 2-parted, its lobes filiform, stigmatic along their inner sides. Cap- sule ovoid or globose, 2-valved, many-seeded. Seeds small, reticulated. [In honor of L. and C. Sabbati, Italian botanists, according to Salisbury, Parad. Lond. pi. 32, therefore Sabbatia, though Adanson's spelling was Sabatia.] About 18 species, natives of eastern North America, the West Indies and Mexico. Besides the following, some 6 others occur in the southern United States. Type species: Chironia dodecandra L. Flowers normally 4-5-parted, sometimes 6-7-parted. Branches opposite. Style 2-parted to below the middle or nearly to the base; flowers white. Leaves lanceolate or ovate, acute; flowers 8"-i2" broad. Leaves linear-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse; flowers 6"-a" broad. Style 2-cleft to about the middle; flowers normally pink. Leaves linear-lanceolate, sessile; stem slightly 4-angled. Leaves ovate, cordate-clasping; stem strongly 4-angled. Branches alternate, the lower sometimes opposite in nos. 5 and 6. Calyx-segments foliaceous, longer than the corolla. Calyx-segments linear or lanceolate, not longer than the corolla. Calyx-tube 5-ribbed; flowers i'-z' broad; leaves ovate to oblong. Calyx-tube scarcely ribbed; flowers i'-iJ4' broad; leaves linear to lanceolate. Calyx shorter than the corolla; style 2-parted. Flower pink with a yellow eye (rarely white) ; corolla-segments obovate. 7. S. stellaris. Flowers white, very numerous ; corolla-segments spatulate or oblanceolate. 8. Calyx-segments filiform,
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