Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part G) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 529 556 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Gentiana autumnalis Linnaeus , Cat. Edwards's Nat. Hist. : 11. 1776 . Lectotype (Pringle in Brittonia 19: 2. 1967): [icon] " The Autumnal Gentian of the Desart " in Edwards, Gleanings Nat. Hist. 1: 98, t. 255. 1758 (see p. 101). Current name: Gentiana autumnalis L. ( Gentianaceae ). Note: Fernald (in Rhodora 52: 68-69. 1950) gives an informative explanation of the circumstances surrounding the publication of this name and states that it is based on Edwards' plate and Bartram's description. Pringle, however, referred to the plate as "the type".