499 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
8. ANAGALLIS L. Pivpernet. 
Slender branched leafy-stemmed annual with entire, mostly opposite leaves and 
small, axillary, scarlet to white flowers on slender peduncles 1 to 2 cm. long. 
1. Anagallis arvensis L. Sp. Pl. 148. 1753. 
Type Locauty: “ Habitat in Europae arvis.”’ 
New Mexico: Kingston (Metcalfe 1339). 
Widely introduced into North America from Europe. 
4. DODECATHEON L. S#HootTina sTAR. 
Showy perennial herbs with short rootstocks, smooth entire leaves forming a rosette, 
and rose-colored, violet, or white flowers on an umbellate scape; calyx 5-merous, narrow, 
the lobes reflexed in flower, longer than the tube; corolla tube short, the lobes reflexed; 
stamens 5, exserted; anthers large, the filaments short or obsolete, stout, united at the 
base; ovary free; capsule partially 5-valved. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Anthers on conspicuous filaments; petals rose-colored...........--- 1. D. radicatum. 
Anthers sessile; petals white....................20........------- 2. D. ellisiae. 
1. Dodecatheon radicatum Greene, Erythea 3: 37. 1895. 
TyPE Locauity: Near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Type collected by Fendler (no, 549). 
RANGE: Wyoming and South Dakota to Kansas and New Mexico. 
New Mexico: Chama; Santa Fe and Las Vegas mountains; White Mountains. In 
wet meadows, from the Transition to the Arctic-Alpine Zone. 
2. Dodecatheon ellisiae Standley, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 26: 195. 1913. 
TYPE Locality: Capulin Canyon, Sandia Mountains. 
New Mexico: Type collected by Miss Charlotte C. Ellis (no. 330). 
RanGeE: Known only from type locality. 
5. PRIMULA L. Primrose. 
Perennial scapose herbs; leaves radical, forming a thick tuft, mostly glabrous; 
flowers in umbels surmounting the usually stout scapes (these sometimes only 1 or 
2-flowered); calyx oblong to campanulate, farinaceous, accrescent and persistently 
surrounding the fruit; corolla narrowly funnelform or salverform, the tube longer 
than the calyx, the limb of various shades of pink and rose purple or lilac purple; 
stamens 5, distinct, epipetalous; capsules 5-valved at the summit, many-seeded. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Scapes with 1 or 2 flowers; plants 5 cm. high or less............. lL. P. angustifolia. 
Scapes with 3 to many flowers; plants 10 em. high or more. 
Plants 25 to 40 cm. high, stout; leaves 3 to 5 cm. wide, usually 
C0 2. P. parryi. 
Plants less than 25 em. high, slender; leaves less than 2 cm. 
wide, evidently denticulate. 
Scapes about equaling the leaves; calyx 7 mm. high..... 3. P. ellisiae. 
Scapes twice as long as the leaves; calyx 4to5 mm. high.. 4. P. rusbyi. 
1. Primula angustifolia Torr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. 1:34. pl. 8. 1824. 
Primula angustifolia helenae Pollard & Cockerell, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 15: 
179. 1902. 
TYPE LocALITY: James Peak, Colorado. 
RANGE: Colorado and northern New Mexico. 
