| Show monarch discovered gentian gentles king of um the eat ern boundary of the adriatic was taken prisoner by the romans about century and a halt before the chris tian era for encouraging pirates and died in custody he discovered that a certain plant was a very good tonic and that plant has ever since beba called gentlini Gent lani after him this plant Is generally supposed to have been the tall coarse alpine common in mountainous districts in central el rope and known to botanists as G a preparation of which Is still la high repute as a medicine |