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57. LEADWORT FAMILY. Order PLUMBAGINACEiE. 

 Famiilar to us in two plants only, viz. ^Maksii-Rosemary on the coast, and Thrift in 



gardens; known by having a dry and scaly funnel-shaped 

 calyx, and 5 petals united only at their base, with a stamen 

 before each, and 5 styles on a single one-seeded ovary. 



Flowers (rose-color) in a round head on a long and 

 naked scape : leaves very narrow, all in a close tuft 

 at the root, {Anneria) Thrift. 



Flowers (lavender-color) spiked or sessile along the 

 branches of a forking panicle : leaves spatulate, 

 thickish, on petioles, nearly all of them from the 

 stout rootstock, (Stddce) Maksh-Kosemaky. 



<30. Calyjt mid corolla of Tlirift ; separalctl. 431. Pislil of the same, with its 5 style* : 

 al«o the lower pa:t of an ovary more magnified, cut across. 



58. PRIMROSE FAMILY. Order PRIMULACEiE. 

 Herbs, with regular perfect flowers; completely distinguished by having the stamens of 

 the same number as the lobes to the corolla and one before each., inserted on the tube; the 

 pistil with a one-celled ovary or pod, with one large placenta rising from its base, and bear- 

 ing many or few seeds. 



Leaves under water pinnately divided into thread-like divisions; flowering stems hollow, 



and inflated between the joints, {Ilottdniu) Featheefoil. 



Leaves simple and entire or barely toothed. 



Calyx with its tube coherent with the base of the ovary. Flowers very small, white, 



in racemes. Leaves alternate, {Sdmolus) Brookweed. 



Calyx and corolla free, inserted on the receptacle. 

 Leaves all at the root: flowers in an umbel. 



Calyx tubular: corolla salver-shaped: stamens included, {Pvimvla) Primrose. 



Calyx and corolla 5-parted, turned back : anthers long, and filaments ver}' 



short, connected, (Dodecdiheon) Dodecatkeon. 



Leaves several in a whorl at the summit of the slender stem. Calyx and corolla 



7-parted, wheel-shaped, with narrow divisions, ( Trientdlis) Stak-flower. 



Leaves (mostly opposite or whorled) borne along the whole length of the stem: 

 corolla 5-parted. 

 ^ Corolla wheel-shaped, yellow, {LysimdcJim) Loosestrifk, 



Corolla wheel-shaped, blue or purple: pod opening by a lid, {AnagdlUs) Pimpernel. 



lioosestrife. Lysimdchia. 

 This is the only genus in the Primrose family of which we have more than one common wild spe- 

 cies. The 5 stamens have their filaments a little monadelphous at the base, and often unequal. Fl. in 

 summer. 



1. Stp.ict L. Leaves opposite or scattered, lance-shaped : stem ending in a long raceme leafy at tho 

 base; divisions of the corolla lance-oblong. Low grounds. L. stricta. 



