38 ELEMENTS OF BOTANY. 
II. TRUE HEATH SUB-FAMILY. 
Shrubs or small trees. Calyx free from the ovary. Corolla 
hypogynous, usually gamopetalous. 
EPIGHZA, GROUND LAUREL, TRAILING ARBUTUS. 
Calyx large, 5-parted, with 3 bracts at the base, its divisions 
ovate-lanceolate and almost distinct; corolla salver-shaped, 
with its tube hairy within. Stamens 10, the anthers opening 
lengthwise. Style slender, capsule 5-celled, many-seeded. 
(E. REPENS), MAyFrLower. A prostrate, creeping, barely shrubby 
plant, with large roundish heart-shaped, evergreen, hairy leaves and 
very fragrant pink or nearly white flowers in early spring. 
PRIMULACEZA, PRIMROSE FAMILY. 
Herbs with simple leaves, often most or all of them radical. 
Flowers perfect and regular, generally gamopetalous. Sta- 
mens commonly 5, inserted on the corolla, opposite its lobes. 
Pistil consisting of a single stigma and style and a (generally 
free) one-celled ovary, with a free central placenta (Fig. 132, ¢). 
I. DODECATHEON, SHOOTING STAR. 
Calyx deeply 5-cleft, with reflexed, lanceolate divisions. 
Tube of the corolla very short, the divisions of the 5-parted 
limb strongly reflexed. Filaments short, somewhat united at 
the base; anthers long, acute, and combining to form a con- 
Sspicuous cone. A smooth perennial herb, with a cluster 
of oblong or spatulate root-leaves, fibrous roots, and an 
unbranched scape, leafless except for an involucre of small 
bracts at the summit, with a large umbel of showy nodding 
flowers. Corolla varying from rose-color to white. 
(D. MeaprA), SuootinG STAR, INDIAN CurEF. Native in most 
of the Middle and Southern States. Often cultivated. 
