DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 39 
Il. PRIMULA, PRIMROSE. 
Calyx tubular, decidedly angled, 5-cleft. Corolla more or 
less salver-shaped, with the tube widened above the insertion 
of the stamens (Fig. 157); the 5 lobes of the limb often 
notched or cleft. Stamens 5, not protruding outside the 
corolla-tube. Capsule egg-shaped, splitting at the top into 
5 valves, each of which may divide in halves. Low perennial 
herbs, with much veined root-leaves; scapes each bearing an 
umbel of flowers, which are often showy. 
(P. GRANDIFLORA), TRUE Primrose. Leaves spatulate or 
obovate-oblong. Flowers rising on separate slender pedicels from 
the leaf-axils, corolla originally pale yellow, but varying to white, 
red, and many intermediate shades, with a broad, flat limb. Culti- 
vated from Europe. 
Ill. LYSIMACHIA, LOOSESTRIFE. 
Calyx 5-6-parted. Corolla wheel-shaped, with its divisions 
commonly nearly separate. Stamens generally somewhat 
monadelphous at the base. Perennials with opposite or 
whorled entire leaves, which are often dotted. 
a. (L. QUADRIFOLIA), FOUR-LEAVED LOOSESTRIFE. Stem erect 
and simple, 1-2 ft. high, hairy ; leaves whorled, most frequently in 
fours, broadly lanceolate; flowers small, axillary, and solitary, on 
long and slender peduncles. 
b. (L. stricta), BuLB-BEARING LOOSESTRIFE. Stems 1-2 ft. 
high, finally branching, frequently producing bulblets in the leaf-axils 
after flowering ; leaves abundant, generally opposite, narrowly lance- 
olate ; the small flowers pedicelled, in a long terminal raceme. 
BORRAGINACEZA, BORAGE FAMILY. 
Mostly herbs, with stems and foliage roughened with stiff 
hairs, with leaves alternate and entire, and symmetrical 
flowers, generally in a coiled inflorescence. Calyx 5-parted. 
Corolla generally 5-lobed and regular. Stamens 5, inserted 
on the corolla-tube. Style one; ovary commonly 4-lobed, 
ripening into 4 1-seeded nutlets. Seeds without endosperm. 
