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Primulaceae. Primrose Family. 
Herbs with simple alternate or a eee basal leaves; 
stipules none. Flowers perfect, regular, symmetrical, 4-8, commonly 
5-parted, solitary in the axils or in terminal umbels or racemes. Sepals 
united at the base. Petals united at the base, sometimes wanting. Stamens 
as many as calyx-lobes and alternate with them, opposite the corolla lobes, 
inserted on the short tube. Pistil 1, the ovary superior, l-chambered, with 
a central placenta. Fruit a l-chambered capsule, opening by 2-8 valves or 
circumseissile. 
¢ Leaves in basal tufts; corolla mae! soon reflexed J, Dodecatheon 
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@ Leaves in a whorl at the apex of the,stem or distrib- 
4 uted evenly along it; corolla lobes spreading 
2% Leaves in a whorl at the apex of the stem 9, Trientalis 
2, Leaves distributed along the stem 
4 Leaves alternate 3. Centunculus 
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( Flowers red, plants prostrate 4. Anagallis i 
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(, Flowers yellow, plants erect 
Flowers in dense ovoid or globose 
“axillary spikes; corolla lobes 
&\ linear 6 Naumbgrgia 
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g Flowers solitary in the upper axils on 
, pedicels 3-4 om. long; corolla lobes | 
i<, obovate or subrotund 6. Steironema 
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