72 PEIMULACEiE. (PEIMKOSE FAMILT.) 



1. ARMERIA, AVilkl. Tiiript. 



Calyx scarious, funnel-form. Styles 5, filiform. Stemless perennials, with linear 

 grass-like leaves in close tufts, the naked scape bearing a h.ead of rose-colore<l flowers. 



1. A. vulgaris, ^Vilkl. Scapes a foot or two high. On sandy hills along the 

 coast. 



2. STATICE, L. JNIaksh-Eosemakv. 



Flowers in small .spikes or clusters, crowded at the extremities of a branching scajie; 

 their structure nearly as in Armeria. Leaves commonly with a broad blade, tapering 

 into a petiole. 



1. S. Limouium, L. Leaves obovate-oblong ; spikelcts 2-3-flowered. Salt 

 marshes. 



Order 35. PRIMULACEiE. 



Herbs, with perfect, regular flowers, well marked, by having the stamens as long as 

 the lobes of the corolla, and opposite to them, inserted on its tube, a single entire style 

 and stigma, a one-celled ovai-y, and capsular fruit. Calyx 4-S-cleft, commonly 5-cleft, 

 hypogynous. — Leaves simple; stipules none. In 6'faMa; the coi'olla is wanting; stamens 

 on the calyx alternate with its lobes. 



* Floivcrs umbellate on a nahed scape. 



Corolla deeply 4-5-parted, the lobes rellexed Dodecatheon. 1 



* * Floivers axillary, on leafy stems. 



Corolla 5-9-parted, rotate Trientalis. 2 



Corolla 5-parted ; prostrate stems ., Auagallis. 3 



Corolla wanting; calyx colored Glau:s. 4 



1. DODECATHEON. L. 



Calj'x deeply 5-cleft, the divisions reflexed in the flower, afterwards erect over the 

 ovate or oblong capsule. Corolla with a very short tube, a dilated, thickened throat and 

 an abruptly reflexed 4— 5-parted limb; its divisions long and narrow, entire. Stamens 

 inserted in the throat of the corolla, erect, cohering around the slender cxscrted style. — 

 Acaulescerit perennial smooth herbs, with a tuft of radical leaves. Corolla purjile, pink, 

 or rarely white. Frequently the parts are in fours. 



L D. Meadia, L. Leaves varying from obovate to lanceolate, entire or toothed; 

 scape 3 to 15 inches high; umbel, 2-20-flowered. A variable species. Ours is chiefly 

 the 



Var. brevifolium, with leaves round-obovate or sx>atulate, less than an inch to an 

 inch and a half long. 



