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Manna-ash, with white flowers in a terminal thyrse, is 
doubtfully wild in the South. 
Order LIJ.—PRIMULACE. 
Calyx 5-cleft; corolla regular, 5-lobed, rarely 0; stamens 
5, epipetalous, opposite the corolla-lobes; ovary I-celled, 
with central placentation; style 1; stigma capitate; style 
often of different lengths in different individuals ; fruit a 
capsule. A very large order, belonging chiefly to the 
Temperate and Arctic Zones. 
1. ANDROSACE, Tourn. 
Flowers small, white, yellow, or pink, in umbels sur- 
rounded by an involucre of bracts, or solitary in the axils 
of the leaves; corolla rotate, 5-lobed, with a long tube. 
A very pretty genus of almost exclusively alpine plants. 
A. Flowers solitary, yellow:—A. Vztaliana, Nees 
(Aretia Vitaliana, L., Gregoria Vitaliana, Dub.) ; corolla- 
tube twice as long as calyx, corolla-lobes entire, stem 
prostrate, leaves linear, in rosettes; high; Valais, Pied- 
mont (Mont Cenis), Tirol, Pyrenees, rare. 
&. Flowers in umbels, red or pink; alpine plants :— 
A. carnea, L.; flowers pink, corolla-lobes entire, stem, 
flower-stalk, and calyx hairy, leaves linear-subulate, nar- 
rowed upwards; high; Switzerland, Tirol, Vosges, Dau- 
phiny, Pyrenees, local. A. Wulfeniana, Sieb.; flowers 
red, pink, or purple, stalked, about 4 in. diam., funnel- 
shaped, with cordate corolla-lobes, leaves small, hairy ; 
rare ; Carinthia, Styria, Salzburg. A. Hausmanuz, Leyb.; 
flowers reddish, 4 in. diameter, saucer-shaped, with emar- 
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