72 PEIMULACEJS. (primrose FAMTLT.) 



1. ARMERIA, Willd. Thrift. 



Calyx scarious, funnel-form. Styles 5, filiform. Stcmless perennials, -witli linear 

 grass-like leaves in elose tufts, the naked scape bearing a head of rose-colored flowers. 



1. A. vulgaris, Vv'illd. Scapes a foot or two high. On sandy hills along the 

 coast. 



2. STATIC3, L. jSIarsh-Eoseimary. 



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

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

 into a petiole. 



1. S. Limonium, L. Leaves obovate-oblong ; spikelets 2-3-flowered. Salt 

 marshes. 



Order 35. PRIMULACEiE. 



Herbs, with perfect, regular flowers, well marked, by liaving 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 ovary, and capsular fruit. Calyx 4-8-cleft, commonly 5-cleft, 

 hypogynous. — Leaves simple; stipules none. In Olaux the corolla is wanting; stamens 

 on the calyx alternate with its lobes. 



* Flowers umbellate on a nahed scape. 

 Corolla deeply 4-5-parted, the lobes reflexed Dodecatheoii. 1 



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Flowers axillanj, on leafy stems. 



Corolla 5-9-parted, rotate Trientalis. 2 



Corolla 5-parted; prostrate stems Anagallis. 3 



Corolla wanting; calyx colored Glaus. 4 



1. DCDSCATHEON, L. 



Calyx deeply ^-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 exserted style. — 

 Acaulescent perennial smooth herbs, with a tuft of radical leaves. Corolla purple, pink, 

 or rarely white. Frequently the jiarts 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 spatulate, less than an inch to an 

 inch and a half long. 



