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FAMILIES OF FLOWEKING PLANTS 



having an equable temperature. Three genera occur in Florida, one of 

 them {Icacorea paniculata) being rather an ornamental shrub, with 

 panicles of creamy white flowers. (Fig. 182.) Several species of this 

 genus and of Myrsine are cultivated in greenhouses, but the family is 

 not, as a whole, remarkable for economic or other uses. 



Family Primulaceae. Primrose Family. Contains about 28 genera 

 and 350 species, widely distributed. All are herbs, with regular flowers, 

 the calyx and corolla each 5-cleft or 5-parted, the stamens also 5. Ovary 

 1-celled, becoming a 2-6-valved capsule in fruit. There is one genus 

 {Glaiix) in which the corolla is entirely wanting. 



The largest genus is the type of the family {Primula), containing 



Fig. 184. The Shooting Star {Dodecatheon Meadia), considerably reduced. 



Original. 



