PLATE C
CLOSED GENTIAN.—G. Andrewsii.
Fringed Gentian.
Gentiana crinita. Gentian Family.
Stem.—One to two feet high. Leaves.—Opposite, lance-shaped or narrowly oval. Flowers.—Blue, large. Calyx.—Four-cleft, the lobes unequal. Corolla.—Funnel-form, with four fringed, spreading lobes. Stamens.—Four. Pistil.—One, with two stigmas.
In late September when we have almost ceased to hope for new flowers we are in luck if we chance upon this
—blossom bright with autumn dew
whose
—sweet and quiet eye
Looks through its fringes to the sky,
Blue—blue—as if that sky let fall,