1020 ARMERIACEAE 
GALAX L. Herbs with a short caudex bearing few leaves with broad 
long-petioled blades. Flowers in an KR spike-like raceme. Staminodia 
exceeding the anthers. Style very shor 
One species 
G. aphylla L. Plant gregarious: n 
blades suborbicular, 4-10 c n diameter, 
crenate, with apiculate teeth, deeply cordate: 
d rs E 2-7 dm. tall: caly x-lobes _ 1.5 
lla m ? ide: 
vam oat twice as long as the calyx 
ALAXY. AND-FLO í 
ED.) pen 
FO E-WE woods, in dry 
acid ‘soil, "Piedmont n A ein Plateat, 
Ga. to Ala. and Va., extending into 
Coastal Plain in N. S a nd Va.—Sum.—The 
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OrpER PRIMULALHES-——PRniMULAL ORDER 
Herbs, shrubs, trees, or vines. Leaves alternate or opposite, some- 
times all basal. Flowers perfect or polygamo-dioecious, variously dis- 
posed. Calyx of 2-several partially united sepals. Corolla of 2-several 
distinct or deine united petals. Androecium of as many stamens as 
there are sepals or petals, and sometimes accompanied by staminodia. 
Gynoecium of 4-6 united carpels, or rarely more. Fruit capsular or 
drupaceous, or rarely an achene or a utricle. 
Styles and stigmas distinct, slender: fruit an achene es an utricle: ovule solitary. 
am. 1. ARMERIACEAE. 
Styles united: fruit capsular or drupelike: ovules 
several. 
Herbs: ovules and seeds not immersed: fruit 
capsular. Fam.2. PRIMULACEAE. 
Shrubs or trees: ovules and seeds immersed : fruit 
drupe-like. 
Staminodia at the sinuses of a corolla: fruit 
containing few to many se am.3. THEOPHRASTACEAE. 
Staminodia wanting: fruit com ining a single 
seed. ram. 4. ARDISIACEAE. 
Famity 1. ARMERIACEAE — LEgApwongT FAMILY 
Perennial or rarely annual, often partly dd plants with leafy 
stems or with caudices. Teavet Bu blades entire. Flowers per- 
fect, in heads, spikes, panicles, or cymes. Calyx of 4 or 5 partly united 
n m istine an 
wholly or partly included in the persistent: ealyx.— Ten genera and 350 
species, ace distributed. 
Acaulescent plants with a leafy caudex, the leaves basal: petals with the claws 
ae rly distinct; filaments partly adnate to the petals; anthers broad: styles dis- 
1. LIMONIUM. 
Caulescent plants with alternate leaves: petals with the. claws 
uai ited into a slender tube: filaments free: anthers narrow : styles 
ed. 2. PLUMBAGO. 
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