Floral Illustrations of the Seasons / Consisting of the Most Beautiful, Hardy and Rare Herbaceous Plants, Cultivated in the Flower Garden

by Margaret Roscoe

Plate 13. Gentiana Verna.
Drawn from Nature by M.R. Engraved by R. Havell Jun^r.

GENTIANA verna.

Spring Gentian.

Class and Order.—Pentandria Digynia.

Syn.	Gentiana verna.	Eng. Bot. pl. 493.
—	Gentiana verna.	Curt. Bot. Mag. pl. 491.

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Root fibrous, creeping—stem procumbent, leafy,—leaves sessile, oval, acute, opposite, clustered near the root—flowers terminal—calyx five cleft, acute—corolla brilliant blue, monopetalous, tube long, limb spreading, divided into five segments, obtuse, undulate, fringed between the segments—stamens five, enclosed in the tube of the corolla—style simple, stigmas two, so closely situated as to give the appearance of a small white circle in the centre of the flower.