PEIMULACE^E. (PRIMUOSE FAMILY.) 279 



spfeading; spikes ; calyx funnel-shaped, smooth, the lobes of tlie soarious limb 

 alternating with 5 smaller ones. — Salt marshes, Florida, and northward. Aug. 

 and Sept. — Scape ^° - 2° high. Leaves 3'- 6' long. Flowers blue. 



2. PLUMBAGO, Tourn. Leadwort. 



Calyx tubular, 5-ribbed, 5-toothed. Corolla salver-shaped, .5-lobcd. Stamens 

 5, inserted on the receptacle. Styles united. Stigmas linear. Utricle splitting 

 into valves from the base upward. — Herbs or shrubs, with alternate entire 

 mostly clasping leaves, and blue or white flowers in terminal spikes. 



1. P. SCa.ndeilS, L. Shrubby ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, narrowed 

 into a clasping petiole ; calyx glandular-viscid, half as long as the tube of the 

 corolla; lobes of the corolla ovate, white; style smooth. — South Florida. — 

 Leaves 2' - 3' long. Spike elongated. 



Order 87. PRIMUL.ACE7E. (Primrose Family.) 



Herbs, with simple alternate or opposite leaves, and regular flowers. — 

 Calyx 4 - 5-lobed, persistent. Corolla 4-5-lobecl. Stamens 4— 5, oppo^ 

 site the lobes of the corolla, and inserted on its tube. Ovary free, or 

 partly adherent to the calyx, 1-cellcd, many-ovuled. Placenta central, 

 globose. Stj'le single. Capsule 1-celled, many-seeded, valvate or circum- 

 scissile. Seeds anatropous or amphitropous. Embryo straight in fleshy 

 albumen. 



Synopsis. 



* Ovary free from the calyx. 

 ■t- Capsule opening by valves or teeth. 



1. HOTTONIA. Corolla salver-shaped. Leaves pectinately dissected. 



2. LYSIIMACIIIA. Corolla wheel-shaped. Stems leafy. Leaves opposite, entire. 



3. DODECATUEON. Corolla wheel-shaped. Stemless. Leaves radical. 



■I- -I- Capsule opening transversely. 



4. ANAGALLIS. Parts of the flower 5. Leaves opposite. Stamens bearded. 



5. CENTUNCULUS. Parts of the flower 4. Leaves alternate. Stamens beardless. 



* * Ovary partly adherent to the calyx. 



6. SAMOLUS. Stamens 5, with sterile filaments interposed. Capsule valvate. 



1. HOTTONIA, L. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla salver-shaped, 5-lohed. Stamens 5. Style slender. 

 Capsule globose, at length splitting into 5 valves, which cohere at the base and 

 apex. Seeds fixed by the base, anatropous — Aquatic perennial herbs, with 

 pectinately dissected leaves. Flowering stems mostly clustered, nearly leafless, 

 inflated, bearing at the joints whorls of small white flowers. 



1. H. iuflata, Ell. Flowering stems 3 -several in a terminal cluster, much 

 inflated ; upper stem-leaves crowded, with filiform divisions ; bracts entire. — 

 Ponds and ditches in the upper districts, Mississippi, and northward. June, 



