272 primulace^e. (primrose family.) 



3. DODECATHGOIV, L. American Cowslip. 



Calyx deeply 5-cleft ; the divisions lanceolate, reflcxed. Corolla with a very 

 short tube, a thickened throat, and a 5-parted reflexed limb ; the divisions long 

 and narrow. Filaments short, monadelphous at the base : anthers long and 

 linear, approximate in a slender cone. — Perennial smooth herbs, with fibrous 

 roots, a cluster of oblong or spatulate leaves, and a simple naked scape, involu- 

 crate at the summit, bearing an ample umbel of showy flowers, usually nodding 

 Dn slender peduncles. Corolla purple-rose-color, or sometimes white. (Name 

 fancifully assumed from 8to8ej<a, twelve, and 6eoL, gods. ) 



1. D. ITIcadia, L. — Rich woods, Penn. and Maryland to Wisconsin, and 

 southwestward. May, June. — Very handsome in cultivation. In the West 

 called Shooting-Star. 



t 

 4. TRIEITALIS, L. Chickweed-Wintergreen. 



Calyx mostly 7-parted ; the divisions linear-lanceolate, pointed. Corolla 

 mostly 7-parted, spreading, flat, without any tube. Filaments slender, united in 

 a ring at the base : anthers oblong, revolute after flowering. Pod few-seeded. 



— Low and smooth perennials, with simple erect stems, bearing a few alternate 

 usually minute and scale-like leaves below, and a whorl of very delicate veiny 

 leaves at the summit. Peduncles one or more, very slender, bearing a delicate 

 white and star-shaped flower. (A Latin name, meaning the third part of a foot, 

 alluding to the size of the plant. ) 



1. T. Americfaaia, Pursh. (Star-flower.) Leaves elongated-lan- 

 ceolate, tapering to both ends; petals finely pointed. — Damp cold woods; 

 common northward, and southward in the mountains. May. 



5. LYSIMACHIA, L. Loosestrife. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla with a very short tube, and a spreading 5-parted 

 limb. Stamens 5 : filaments often united in a ring at the base. Pod globose, 

 5 - 10-valved, few - many-seeded. (Parts of the flower rarely in fours or sixes. ) 



— Perennial herbs, with entire leaves, and axillary or racemed flowers : corolla 

 mostly yellow. (Named in honor of King Lysimachus, or from Xvais, a release 



from, paxi' strife.) 



§ 1. TRIDYNIA, Raf. — Leaves opposite or whorled, sessile, dotted: calyx and 

 golden-yellow corolla streaked with dark lines : filaments mostly unequal, plainly 

 monadelphous at the base, with no interposed sterile ones : anthers short : pod 5- 

 valved, ripening only 2-5 seeds. 



1. L,, stricta, Ait. Smooth, at length branched, very leafy ; leaves oppo- 

 site or rarely alternate, lanceolate, acute at each end ; flowers on slender pedi- 

 cels in a long raceme (5'- 12'), which is leafy at the base ; or, in var. product a, 

 leafy for fully half its length : lobes of the corolla lance-oblong. Low grounds ; 

 common. June- Arg. — Stems l°-2° high, often bearing oblong or monili- 

 form bulblets in the axils. 



