478 PRIMULACEAE 
3. SAMOLUS 
A smooth herb of wet places, with alternate, undivided, leaves and small 
flowers in elongated terminal clusters. Calyx adhering to the ovary be- 
low, 5-cleft. Corolla bell-shaped, 5-lobed. Stamens 5 fertile, and commonly 
5 sterile. Capsule globose, many seeded. 
S. floribundus, HBK. (Fig. 6, pl. 119.) Water PIMPERNELL. Brook 
Weep. Plant, 6 to 18 in. high, branching. Leaves 1 to 3 in. long, rounded 
at apex, narrowed at base. Growing in wet places. June-Sept. 
4. TRIENTALIS, L. 
Low, smooth perennial, with simple erect stem surmounted by a whorl 
of thin lance-shaped leaves and by one or more white star-like flowers 
borne on, Jong, very slender pedicels. The stem also bears a few minute 
seale-like bracts or leaves alternately arranged. Calyx of about 7 linear 
segments, corolla spreading, flat and star-like with about 6 or 7 rays. 
T. americana, Pursh. (Fig. 5, pl. 119.) Srar Frower. Stem 3 to 
9 in. high; leaves 14 to 4 in. long, tapering at both ends. Flower about 
3 in. broad. In moist woods. May-June. 
6. (GLAUR AL 
A low, fleshy perennial, with many opposite fleshy leaves, which are 
oblong and undivided and without teeth. Flowers in the axils of the 
leaves, solitary but opposite Calyx 5-parted, the lobes colored like petals, 
the latter wanting. Stamens 5, at the base of the calyx, opposite the 
corolla lobes. Capsule 5-valved, few seeded. 
G. maritima, L. (Fig. 4, pl. 119.) Sra Mirkworr. Plant, 2 to 8 in. 
high, leaves + to 4 in. long, oblong, oval or linear. Growing in salt 
marshes and on sea beaches. June-Aug. 
6. ANAGALLIS, L. 
Our species a low spreading herb found in moist pastures and waste 
places, with opposite leaves and solitary scarlet or whitish flowers. Calyx 
of 5 narrow tapering lobes; corolla wheel-shaped of 5 rather deeply-parted 
lobes; ovary globose, the top separating like a lid to allow the escape 
of the minute seeds. 
A. arvensis, L. (Fig. 7, pl. 119.) Scarrer PIMPERNELL. Poor 
Man’s WreatueR Grass. Plant procumbent, stems 4 to 12 in. long, 
4-sided. Leaves broadly egg-shaped without leaf stems. Flowers in leaf- 
axils, on slender pedicels generally opposite; petals rounded, somewhat 
deeply separated. Moist places. Naturalized. June-Aug. 
7. NAUMBURGIA, Moench. 
A plant of cold swamps. Erect, leaves opposite, the lower reduced to 
scales, smooth; flowers in dense rounded tufts from the leaf-axils, yel- 
low, the calyx and corolla each 5- to 7-parted, sepals and petals linear; 
stamens 5 to 7, extending beyond the corolla, Ovary globose. 
N. thyrsiflora, (L.) Duby. (Fig. 5, pl. 120.) Turrep Loosrstrire. 
