592 PRIMULACEAE. [Vor. II. 
1, Trientalis Americana Pursh. Star- 
flower. Chickweed Wintergreen. 
(Fig. 2822.) 
shat Americana Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 256. 
1814. 
Rootstock horizontal or creeping, sending up 
simple stem-like branches 3/-9’ high, which 
are naked or scaly below, the leaves all in a 
verticil of 5-10 at the summit. Leaves mem- 
branous, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acu- 
minate at both ends, sessile or short-petioled, 
minutely crenulate, 134’-4/ long, 4’’-15’’ wide; 
pedicels filiform, erect, 1/-2’ long; sepals nar- 
rowly lanceolate or subulate, cuspidate, about 
one-half as long as the oblong or somewhat 
oboyate corolla-segments; flowers 4’/-6’’ broad; 
capsule shorter than the sepals. 
In damp woods and thickets, Labrador to the 
Northwest Territory, south to southern New Jersey, 
Virginia, Illinois and Michigan, May-June. 
Q- GLAUX L. Spubly 207.) 1756: 
A small succulent perennial leafy herb, with opposite entire obtuse small fleshy leaves, 
and minute dimorphous nearly sessile axillary pink or white flowers. Calyx 5-parted, the lobes 
petaloid, imbricated in the bud, about equalling the campanulate tube. Corollanone. Sta- 
mens 5, inserted at the base of the calyx and alternate with its lobes; filaments subulate-fili- 
form; anthers cordate, attached by their backs to the filaments. Ovary superior, ovoid, glan- 
dular; ovules few; style filiform; stigma capitellate. Capsule globose-ovoid, beaked, 5-valved 
at the top, few-seeded. Seeds ellipsoid. [Greek, sea-green. ] 
A monotypic genus of salt marshes, sea-beaches and other saline situations in the northern 
hemisphere. 
1, Glaux maritima L. Sea Milkwort. 
Black Saltwort. (Fig. 2823.) 
Glaux maritima I,. Sp. Pl. 207. 1753. 
Perennial by slender rootstocks, glabrous, pale 
or glaucous, simple or branched, erect or diffuse, 
2/-8’/ high. Leaves oval, oblong or linear-oblong, 
rarely somewhat spatulate, sessile, 2//-6’’ long, 
1/7-214/’ wide, the lower usually smaller than the 
upper; flowers about 114’ broad, solitary and very 
nearly sessile in the axils, usually numerous; calyx- 
lobes oval, pink, purplish or white; stamens either 
shorter than the style or exceeding it; capsule 
nearly enclosed by the calyx, but free from and 
about equalling it. 
In salt marshes and on sea-beaches, New Jersey to 
Newfoundland; in saline or subsaline soil from Minne- 
sota and Manitoba to the Northwest Territory, south to 
Nebraska and Nevada; on the Pacific Coast from Cali- 
fornia to Alaska. Also in Europe and Asia. Called 
also Sea Trifoly. June-Aug. 
10. ANAGALLIS L.. Sp. Pl. 148. 1753. 
Annual or perennial, diffuse or erect, branching mostly glabrous herbs, with opposite or 
verticillate (rarely alternate) sessile or short-petioled leaves, entire or nearly so, and small 
axillary peduncled red blue white or pink flowers. Calyx 5-parted, the lobes lanceolate or 
subulate, spreading, persistent. Corolla deeply 5-parted, rotate, the segments entire or erose, 
convolute in the bud, longer than the calyx. Stamens 5, inserted at the base of the corolla, 
filaments subulate, or filiform, puberulent, or pubescent, distinct, or united into a narrow ring 
at the base; anthers oblong, obtuse. Ovary globose, ovules numerous; stigma obtuse. Capsule 
globose, circumscissile, many-seeded. Seeds minute, flat on the back. [Greek, delightful. ] 
About 15 species, mostly of the Old World, 1 native in southern South America. The following 
European and Asiatic species is widely distributed as a weed. 
