594 PRIMULACEAE. 
1. Dodecatheon Méadia L. Shooting Star. 
American Cowslip. Pride-of-Ohio. (Fig. 2826. ) 
Dodecatheon Meadia I,. Sp. Pl. 144. 1753. 
Perennial by a stout rootstock; roots fibrous; scape 
erect, 8’/-2° high. Leaves oblong or oblanceolate, ob- 
tuse or obtusish at the apex, narrowed into margined 
petioles, entire or toothed, 3/-12’ long, 14/—4’ wide; 
flowers few, seveial or numerous in the umbels, 9//— 
15’ long; bracts of the involucre lanceolate or linear, 
acute; pedicels recurved in flower, erect in fruit, un- 
equal, the outer ones sometimes 4/ long; calyx-lobes 
triangular-lanceolate, acute; corolla purple, pink or 
white; anthers 3/’-4’’ long; capsule narrowly ovoid, 
erect, 5-valved above, 6’’-8’’ high. 
On moist cliffs and prairies, Pennsylvania to Manitoba, 
south to Georgia and Texas. April-May. 
Dodecatheon Méadia Frénchii Vasey; Wats. & Coult. in 
A. Gray, Man. Ed. 6, 735 b. 1891. 
Leaves ovate or elliptic, base abruptly contracted or 
cordate. Illinois to Arkansas; southern Pennsylvania ? 
Family 8. PLUMBAGINACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 269. 1836. 
PLUMBAGO FAMILY. 
Perennial mostly acaulescent erect herbs, with basal tufted leaves (stem 
climbing and leafy in Plwmbago), and small perfect and regular clustered flow- 
ers. Calyx inferior, gamosepalous, tubular or funnelform, 5-toothed, plaited at 
the sinuses, the tube 5-15-ribbed. Corolla of 5 hypogynous clawed segments, 
connate at the base or united into a tube, convolute’ or imbricated in the bud. 
Stamens 5, opposite the corolla-segments, hypogynous; filaments separate, or 
united at the base; anthers 2-celled, attached by their backs to the filaments, 
the sacs longitudinally dehiscent. Disk none. Ovary superior, 1-celled; ovule 
solitary, anatropous, pendulous, the funiculus arising from the base of the cav- 
ity; styles 5, separate or united. Fruit a utricle or achene, enclosed by the 
calyx, rarely a dehiscent capsule. Seed solitary; testa membranous; endosperm 
mealy, or none; embryo straight; cotyledons entire. 
About 10 genera and 350 species, of wide geographic distribution, mostly in saline situations. 
Inflorescence cymose-paniculate; flowers in one-sided spikes. 1. Limonium. 
Flowers in a dense terminal head. 2. Statice. 
1. LIMONIUM Adans. Fam. Pl. 2: 283. 1763. 
(SraTice Willd. Sp. Pl. 1: 1552. 1798.] 
Herbs, mostly with flat basal leaves, and numerous very small flowers cymose-paniculate 
‘ on the branches of bracted scapes, in 1~3-flowered bracteolate clusters, forming one-sided 
f spikes. Calyx campanulate or tubular, the limb scarious, 5-toothed, the tube usually Io- 
k Houheues ribbed. Petals 5, clawed. Stamens adnate to the bases of the petals. Styles 5, separate in 
h ~O'") our species, stigmatic along the inner side. Fruit autricle. [Ancient name of the wild beet. ] 
Wy cota 19 hey About 120species. Besides the following, 1 occurs on the South Atlantic and 1 on the Pacific Coast. 
1. Limonium Carolinianum (Walt.) Britton. Sea Lavender. Marsh 
1 : Rosemary. Canker-root. (Fig. 2827.) 
Statice Caroliniana Walt. Fl. Car. 118. 1788. 
Statice Limonium var. Carolinianum A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 
270. 1856. 
L. Carolinianum Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5: 255. 1894. 
Glabrous, fleshy, rootstock thick, fusiform or branched, 
scape terete, striate, slender, paniculately branched above, 
1°-2° high. Leaves oblanceolate, obtuse or acutish and 
mucronulate at the apex, narrowed into margined peti- 
oles, entire, or slightly undulate, 3/-10’ long, %4/-134/ 
wide, shorter than the scapes, the midvein prominent, 
the lateral veins very obscure; flowers erect, usually soli- 
tary in the sessile secund bracteolate clusters, about 2’’ 
high; calyx 5-toothed, sometimes with as many minute 
intermediate teeth in the sinuses; corolla pale purple; 
petals spatulate; ovary oblong or ovoid; styles filiform. 
On salt meadows, Labrador to Florida and Texas. Called 
also Lavender-thrift, and Ink-root. July—Oct. 
oe novell 
Nara . 
