N. ORD.—PRIMULACE., 108 
Tribe.— PRIMULEA. 
GENUS.—ANAGALLIS,* TOURN. 
SEX. SYST.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
ANAGALLIS. 
PIMPERNEL. 
SYN.—_ANAGALLIS ARVENSIS, LINN. 
COM. NAMES.—COMMON SCARLET OR RED PIMPERNEL, POOR MAN’S 
WEATHER-GLASS, RED CHICKWEED; (GER.) HUHNERDARN; (FR.) 
MOURON. oe 
A TINCTURE OF THE WHOLE PLANT ANAGALLIS ARVENSIS, LINN. 
Description.—This low, spreading or prostrate annual herb, grows from 6 to 20 
inches in length. Szew square, glabrous, branching ; /eaves opposite, entire, ovate, 
and sessile, dotted upon the under surface. /florescence axillary ; flowers ranging 
on different plants from scarlet to white through the shades of blue and purple; 
peduncles filiform, longer than the leaves, 1-flowered, bractless. Calyx 5-parted; 
lobes lanceolate-subulate ; margins rough. Corolla rotate, 5-parted, longer than 
the calyx ; /wée little or none; /odes broad, obovate, obtuse, fringed with stipitate 
glands. .Samens 5, inserted upon the base of the corolla; 4/aments purple, bearded; 
anthers broadly oblong. Ovary free from the calyx ; ovu/es amphitropous. Fruita 
globular, membranaceous, circumcissile capsule or pyxis; seeds many, somewhat 
triangular; ¢esta rough with minute verucce. 
Primulacez.—This small family of herbs is represented in North America by 
I2 genera, comprising 38 species and 15 varieties; it is characterized as follows: 
Leaves simple, alternate, opposite, or whorled. lowers regular, symmetrical, and 
perfect; perzanth hypogynous. Calyx persistent. Corod/a rotate, hypocrateriform, 
or campanulate. Svamens of the same number as the lobes of the corolla and _ 
opposite them; //aments inserted upon the tube of the corolla; anthers introrse, 
Ovary t-celled, free from the calyx; sty/e columnar, undivided; ségma undivided ; 
ovules sessile on a free central placenta. Seeds numerous; a/éumen copious, fleshy: oo 
embryo straight, small. 
The only other plant of this order in our Materia Medica is the European > = 
Sow-Bread (Cyclamen Europeum, Linn.). In general and household practice the 
flowers of the European Cowslip (Przmala offictnales, Jacq.) have been used: as a 
sedative, and placed ir in wine to render it soporific, eae 
*? ps ets: anagelao, eS Janghs 5 from. its supposed geal oF ene: blariousness, 
