. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. GENTIANA GENTIANA 635 connivent at the apex. N. Arner. Not 1531 or 1551. Var. intermedia, Griseb. {G. intermedia, Sims, not L. B. C, 3:218), may be a hybrid between this andfi'. Andrewsii. It resembles G. oehroleiiea in having calyx lobes of unequal lengths, but as long as or longer than the calyx lube, an
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. GENTIANA GENTIANA 635 connivent at the apex. N. Arner. Not 1531 or 1551. Var. intermedia, Griseb. {G. intermedia, Sims, not L. B. C, 3:218), may be a hybrid between this andfi'. Andrewsii. It resembles G. oehroleiiea in having calyx lobes of unequal lengths, but as long as or longer than the calyx lube, and free anthers: it resembles G. Andrewsii iu the tinge of purplish blue. Var. incarn4ta,Grlseb. ((?. incaritdfa, Sims). B. M. from Carolina is not cult. These forms are not considered worthy of varietal rank iu Gray's Syn. Fl. 9. frigida, Htenk. Lvs. spatulate-linear, obtuse: fis. 1 or 2 at the top, sometimes a few in the upper axils; calyx not laterally cut, and half as long as the corolla or more; calyx t§eth lanceolate, a little longer than the calyx tube; corolla club-shaped, plaits not cut. Car- pathian Mts.; also N. Amer. —This is the true type of G. frigida, which is not in cultivation, but is inserted to make clear the differences between G. algida of Pallas and of Steven. 10. dlgida. Pall., not Stev. (G. frigida, var. algida, Griseb.). Lvs. lanceolate-linear: fls. 2-5 at the top and distinctlj' pedicelled; calyx laterally cut and one-third the length of the corolla ; calyx teeth linear - lanceolate, hardly as long as the calyx tube and sometimes only half as long; corolla between club- and bell-shaped; plaits cut with a few crenate teeth. Altai Mts., E. Si- beria, N. Am. Gn. 17, p. 343, same as Gn. 27, p. S9; 48, p. 146, and N. 2:60, Fig. grows 4-5 in. high, has numerous stems and fls. nearly 25-2 in. long, whit- ish, with blue spots in longitudinal lines. The writer has not seen Gt. 1006. 11. g^lida, M. Bieb. ((?. algida, Stev., not Pall.)
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