72 PRDIULACE^. (PEniKOSE FAMILY.) 



1. ARMERIA, Wiilcl Thkiit. 



Cah'x scarious, funnel-form. Styles 5, filiform. Stemless perennials, with linear 

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



1. A. vulgaris, Willd. Scapes a foot or two high. On sandy liills along the 

 coast. 



2. STATICS, L. iNlAKSH-RoSEilAEY. 



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

 their structure nearly as in Armei-ia. 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 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 ovar^-, and capsular fruit. Calyx 4-S-cleft, commonly 5-cleft, 

 hypog}Tious. — Leaves simple; stipules none. Li Glaux the corolla is wanting; stamens 

 on the caJyx alternate with its lobes. 



* Flowers umbellate on a naked scape. 



Corolla deeply 4-o-parted, the lobes reflexed Dodecatheon. 1 



* * Flowers axillari/, on leafy sterns. 



Corolla 5-9-parted, rotate Trientalis. 2 



Corolla 5-parted; prostrate stems Anagallis. 3 



Corolla wanting; calyx colored Glaux, 4 



1. DODECATHEON. L. 



Calyx 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-o-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, %vith a tuft of radical leaves. Corolla purple, pink, 

 or rarely white. Frequently the parts are in fours. 



1. 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. brevifolimn, with leaves roimd-obovate or spatulate, less than an inch to an 

 inch and a half long. 



