Summer flowers of the high Alps / [Somerville Hastings].

  • Somerville Hastings
Date:
1910
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Credit: Summer flowers of the high Alps / [Somerville Hastings]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Gentian (Gentiana excisa), not only because the two plants are so much alike but also because intermediate forms exist; indeed, it is open to question whether the two plants are really to be regarded as distinct species. In the Carved Gentian the calyx lobes become contracted just above their bases, to widen out again above, and the recesses between the lobes are more rounded and less pointed. The leaves also are broader, less leathery, and not nearly so sharp pointed as those of the so-called stemless variety. The flowers of the Marsh Gentian (Gentiana Pneumonanthe) are also not unlike those of the plant here photographed, but it should be readily distinguished because its leaves are much narrower and several flowers are borne by a single plant.
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