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 102nd meridian . Sanctuary. June-Sept. 3. Centaurium pulchellum (S\v.) Druce. Branching Centaury. Fig. 3332. Gentiana pulchella Sw. Act. Holm. 1783: 84. /. 8, 9. ramosissima Vill. Hist. PI. Dauph. 2: 530. ramosissima Pers. Syn. i : 283. pulchella Fries. Novit. 74. pulchellum Druce, FI. Oxf. 342. 1897. Annual, glabrous, much branched, 3-8 high
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 102nd meridian . Sanctuary. June-Sept. 3. Centaurium pulchellum (S\v.) Druce. Branching Centaury. Fig. 3332. Gentiana pulchella Sw. Act. Holm. 1783: 84. /. 8, 9. ramosissima Vill. Hist. PI. Dauph. 2: 530. ramosissima Pers. Syn. i : 283. pulchella Fries. Novit. 74. pulchellum Druce, FI. Oxf. 342. 1897. Annual, glabrous, much branched, 3-8 high. Leavesoval, ovate or lanceolate, the lower mostly obtuse, 3-8long, the upper usually acutish or acute and smaller;no basal tuft of leaves; flowers pink, cymose-paniculate,all or nearly all of them short-pedicelled, 5-6 long;ttibe of the corolla ii-2 times longer than the calj-x-segments. its lobes oblong, obtuse. ii-2 long; stigmaoval; anthers oblong. In fields and waste places, southern New York to Penn-sylvania, Illinois and Maryland ; also in the West from Europe. Genus i. GENTIAX FAMILY. 4. Centaurium exaltatum (Griseb.) W. F. or Western Centaury. Fig. 3333. CicenJia Griseb. in Hook. Fl, Bor. Am. 2 : 69. pi. ij/.1834. Erythraea Douglasii A. Gray, Bot. Gal. i : 480. 1876. Erythraea exaltata Coville, Contr, Nat. Herb. 4: 150. 1893. C. exaltatum W, F. Wight, Contr. Nat. Herb. 11 : 449. 1906. Annual, erect, glabrous, branched, 6-18 high, the branches few, erect, slender. Leaves oblong or Hnear- oblong, sessile, mostly acute at both ends, 5-io long, distant, the basal not tufted; flowers few, terminal and axillary, all slender-pedicelled, 6-8 long; tube of the corolla about one-third longer than the calyx-segments, the lobes oblong, obtuse, 1V-2 long. In sandy soil, western Nebraska to Wyoming, Washington,Arizona and California. May-Sept.
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