1. Leaves serrulate; inflorescence paniculate; sepals triangular, 1-1.5 mm. long; 



corolla globose- to ovoid-urceolate, white, about 3 mm. long 



1. L. ligustrina. 



1. Leaves entire; inflorescences umbellate-racemose; sepals oblong, 3-10 mm. 



long; corolla nodding, cylindric-ovoid, white to pink, 8-13 mm. 



long 2. L. mariana. 



1. Lyonia ligustrina (L.) DC. He-huckleberry, maleberry. Fig. 605. 



Shrub to 4 m. high, sometimes arborescent, deciduous, the bark scaly; leaves 

 short-petiolate, thin, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate to obovate or oblanceolate, 

 acute to abruptly acuminate, to 95 mm. long and 45 mm. wide, serrulate to rarely 

 subentire; racemes borne in panicles terminating the branches or from the upper 

 axils, the bracts (in ours) foliaceous; sepals 1-1.5 mm. long, broadly triangular; 

 corolla whitish, globose- to ovoid-urceolate, to 3 mm. long; filaments flat, not 

 appendaged; capsule globose to subglobose, to 3 mm. long, about 4 mm. thick. 

 Incl. var. capreaefolia (Wats.) DC. and var. salicifolia (Wats.) DC. 



In bog and seepage areas, and along wooded streams and in thickets on edge of 

 lakes, in s.e. Okla. {Waterfall) and e. Tex., Apr.-June; from Fla. to Tex., n. to 

 N.E., N.Y., W.Va., Ky., Ark. and Okla. 



2. Lyonia mariana (L.) D.Don. Stagger bush. 



Slender upright shrub, usually with stems naked below and with strongly ascend- 

 ing branches above, usually more or less pilose throughout, to about 2 m. high, 

 usually less than 1 m. high; leaves shortly petiolate, borne on new shoots, decidu- 

 ous, elliptic-oblong to elliptic-lanceolate or narrowly obovate, obtuse to acute, to 

 11 cm. long and 5 cm. wide, entire; inflorescences umbellate-racemose, fascicled 

 along leafless old branches; pedicels 1-2 cm. long, bracteolate at the very base; 

 flowers nodding; sepals narrowly oblong, to I cm. long, tardily deciduous; corolla 

 cylindric to cylindric-ovoid, 8-13 mm. long, white or pinkish; filaments usually 

 bidentate near apex; capsule ovoid-pyramidal, truncate at the contracted apex, 

 about 7 mm. long, surrounded by the finally appressed sepals. 



Peaty or sandy pinelands and edge of evergreen shrub bogs, edge of water 

 about lakes and ponds, usually in moist soils, in e. and s.-cen. Tex. and s.e. Okla. 

 (McCurtain Co.), Mar .-June; from Fla. to Tex., n. to s. N.E., s.e. N.Y., e. Pa., 

 w. Tenn., s. Mo., Ark. and Okla. 



The foliage is considered to be poisonous to young grazing animals. 



Fam. 102. Primulaceae Vent. Primrose Family 



Annual or perennial herbs with simple or rarely dissected leaves and regular 

 perfect usually 5-merous flowers; calyx free from or partially adherent to the 

 ovary, merely toothed or divided nearly to base; corolla gamopetalous, shallowly 

 lobed to deeply divided; stamens as many as the lobes of the corolla and inserted 

 opposite to them on the tube or at base of lobes; ovary 1-celled, with a central 

 free placenta rising from the base and bearing several to many seeds; style and 

 stigma one, the stigma truncate to capitate; fruit a 2- to 6-valved dehiscent 

 capsule. 



About 1,000 species in about 20 genera that are widely distributed in the 

 Northern Hemisphere. 



1. Aquatic plants with pectinately dissected leaves; flowers in whorls on the 

 conspicuously inflated floating peduncles 1. Hottonia 



1. Marsh or terrestrial plants in wet habitats, with entire or merely toothed leaves; 

 flowers solitary, umbellate or racemose (2) 



2(1). Ovary partially inferior, adnate to the calyx tube; inflorescence an elongate 

 naked raceme, the pedicels bracteate or ebracteate 2. Samolus 



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