490 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
2. Vaccinium scoparium Leiberg, Mazama 1: 196. 1897. 
Vaccinium erythrococcum Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 301. 1900. 
Type Locauity: ‘Alpine woods near the Height of Land and Columbia Portage.”’ 
Ranae: British Columbia and Alberta to California and northern New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Winsor Creek; Baldy; Harveys Upper Ranch. Deep woods, in the 
Canadian and Hudsonian zones. 
This is one of the few plants found in the dense spruce forests. The berries are of 
good flavor and are frequently gathered for food. 
Order 40. PRIMULALES. 
KEY TO THE FAMILIES. 
Styles distinct; fruitan achene or utricle; ovule1.'109. PLUMBAGINACEAE (p. 490). 
Styles united; fruit capsular or drupelike; 
ovules several...........-.-..----------- 110, PRIMULACEAE (p, 490). 
109. PLUMBAGINACEAE. Plumbago Family. 
1. LIMONIUM Adans. 
Acaulescent herbaceous perennial, 30 cm. high or less, with leathery entire basal 
leaves and a corymbosely branched inflorescence of small white flowers; leaves ob- 
lanceolate-spatulate; flowers sessile; calyx funnelform, the tube 10-ribbed, the limb 
scarious, plicate; petals 5, clawed, the claws united at the base; ovary 1-celled, 
5-angled; styles 5, distinct; fruit a utricle, the seed filling the cavity. 
1. Limonium limbatum Small, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 317. 1898. 
Statice limbata Schum. Bot. Jahrb. Engler 26: 390. 1900. 
Typk Locauity: “In alkaline soil, Texas and New Mexico.’’ Type, Wright’s 1435. 
RaNnGE: Texas and southeastern New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Tularosa; Belen; plains near the White Sands; Roswell. Alkaline 
soil, in the Lower Sonoran Zone. 
110. PRIMULACEAE. Primrose Family. 
Annual or perennial herbs, most of them low, some of them very small; leaves 
mostly simple, alternate, opposite, or whorled, basal or cauline, exstipulate; inflo- 
resc@ace various; flowers perfect, usually regular; calyx of 4 to 9 partially united sepals, 
usually persistent; corolla gamopetalous, hypogynous (except in Samolus); stamens 
as many as the corolla lobes and opposite them, attached to the tube; ovary free (ex- 
cept in Samolus), 1-celled, with a central placenta, fruit a capsule with 2 to 8 valves. 
KEY TO THE GENERA. 
Ovary inferior, attached to the base of the calyx and 
corolla tubes............--------------- bee eee 1. Samouus (p. 491). 
Ovary superior, free from all other flower parts. 
Leafy-stemmed plants. 
Capsule opening lengthwise; flowers yellow.... 2. SrErRONEMA (p. 491). 
Capsule circumscissile; flowers reddish. ...... 3. ANAGALLIS (p. 492). 
Scapose or very short-stemmed plants, the leaves all 
basal. 
Corolla lobes reflexed; stamens exserted, con- 
nivent in a cone or somewhat monadel- 
phous... ....-.-.--.------------------ 4, DoprcaTHEON (p. 492), 
