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with small bracts at the summit, bearing an ample umbel of showy flowers, 

 nodding on slender pedicels. Corolla rose-color, or sometimes white. (Name 

 from SwSfKa, twelve, and 0eoi, gods, given by Pliny to the primrose, which was 

 believed to be under the care of the superior gds.) 



1. D. Meadia, L. (SHOOTING-STAR.) Rich woods, Penn. and Md. to 

 Wise., south to Ga. and Tex. May, June. Very handsome in cultivation. 



3. PRIMULA, L. PRIMROSE. COWSLIP. 



Calyx tubular, angled, 5-cleft. Corolla salver-shaped, enlarging above the 

 insertion of the stamens ; the 5 lobes often notched or inversely heart-shaped. 

 Stamens 5, included. Capsule many-seeded, splitting at the top into 5 valves 

 or 10 teeth. Low perennial herbs, producing a tuft of veiny leaves at the 

 root, and simple scapes, bearing the flowers in an umbel. (Name a diminu- 

 tive of primus, from the flowering of the true Primrose in early spring.) 



1. P. farinosa, L. (BIRU'S-EYE PRIMROSE.) Scape 3- 10' high; leaves 

 elliptical or obovate-lauceolate, denticulate, the lower side and the 3 - 20-flow- 

 ered involucre, etc., covered with a white mealiness, at least when young; 

 corolla pale lilac with a yellow eye. Maine to N. shore of L. Superior, and 

 northward. June, July. (Eu., Asia.) 



2. P. Mistassinica, Michx. Scape 2-6' high; leaves spatulate or 

 wedge-oblong, thin and veiny, not mealy ; involucre 1 - 8-flowered ; lobes of the 

 flesh-colored corolla broadly and deeply obcordate. Wet banks and shores, 

 northern N. Eng. and N. Y. to L. Superior, and northward. May. (Eu.) 



4. AND RO SAGE, Tourn. 



Calyx 5-cleft ; tube short. Corolla salver-shaped or funnel-form ; the tube 

 shorter than the calyx, contracted at the throat; limb 5-parted. Stamens and 

 style included. Capsule 5-valved. Small herbs, with clustered root-leaves, 

 and very small solitary or umbelled flowers. (An ancient Greek name of a 

 polyp, formerly believed to be a plant.) 



1. A. OCCidentalis, Pursh. Smoothish annual; scapes diffuse (2-4' 

 high), many-flowered ; leaves and leaflets of the involucre oblong-ovate, entire, 

 sessile ; calyx-lobes leafy, triangular-lanceolate, longer than the (white) corolla. 



Bare hills, from Minn, to 111. and Ark., and west to the mountains. 



5. TRIENTALIS, L. CHICKWEED-WINTERGREEN. 



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

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

 ring at the base ; anthers oblong, revolute after flowering. Capsule 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 thin 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 height of the plant.) 



1. T. Americana, Pursh. (STAR-FLOWER.) Spreading by very slender 

 elongated rootstocks ; leaves elongated-lanceolate, tapering to both ends ; petals 

 finely pointed. Damp cold woods, from Lab. to Minn., south to N. Ind., and 

 the mountains of Va. May. Rootstocks often 1 - 2 long (Hitchinijs). 



