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8. DODECATHEON. Corolla reflexed, 5-parted Stamens exserted ; filamcn to ouYed. 

 * * Stems leafy : corolla wheel-shaped (or in Glaus none). 



4 TRIENTATJS. Corolla mostly 7-parted. Stem leafy at the summit. 



5 LYSIMACI1IA. Corolla 6-parted, without intermediate teeth. Stems leafy. 



6. NAUMBCKGIA Corolla of 5 or 6 petals, with intermediate teeth. 



7. GLAUX. Corolla none : tlie calyx petal-like. 



TEIBE II. AX AGAL.L.IDE.SE. Pod free from tlie calyx, opening all round Iry a trans- 

 verse line, the top falling off like a lid. 



8 ANAGALL1S. Corolla longer than the calyx, 5 parted. Leaves opposite. 



0. CENTUNCULUS. Corolla shorter than the calyx, 4 - 5-cleft. Leaves alternate. 



TRIBE III. SAMOLE^l. Pod partly adherent to the calyx, opening by valvea. 

 10. SAMOLUS. Corolla bell-shaped and with 5 sterile filaments in the sinuses. 



TKIBK IV. HOTTO1VIEJE. Pod entirely free from the calyx, opening by valreft. 

 Seeds fixed by the base, anatropous. 



U. HOTTONIA. Corolla salver-shaped. Immersed leaves pectinately dissected 



1. PRIMULA, L. PRIMROSE. COWSLIP. 



Calyx tubular, angled, 5-clcft. Corolla salver-shaped, enlarging above tho 

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

 Stamens 5, included. Pod 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 diminutive of primus, 

 from the flowering of the true Primrose in early spring-.) 



1. P. fariiiosa, L. (BIRD'S-EYE PRIMROSE.) Leaves elliptical or 

 obovate-lanceolate, the lower surface and the 3 - 20-flowered involucre, frc. covered 

 with a white mealiness : corolla pale lilac with a yellow eye. Shores of Lakes 

 St. Clair, Huron, and northward. June, July. Scape 3'- 10' high. (Eu.) 



2. P. Mistassliiica, Michx. Leaves spatulate or wedge-oblong, thin 

 and veinv, not meal// ; involucre 1 8-flowercd ; lobes of the flesh-colored corolla 

 broadly and deeply obcordate. Shores of the Upper Lakes : also Crooked 

 Lake (Surtwcll) and Annsville, Oneida County, New York (Knieskern and 

 Vasey), Willoughby Mountain, Vermont ( Wood, frc.), and northward. May. 

 A pretty species, 2' - 6' high. (Eu.) 



P. VERIS and P. VULGXRIS are the COWSLIP and PRIMROSE of Europe, 

 from which various cultivated varieties aro derived. 



2. ANDROSACE, Toura. AWDROSACE. 



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

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

 and style included. Pod 5-valvcd. Small herbs, with clustered root-leaves 

 and very small solitary or umbelled flowers. (An old name, composed of 

 dvdpos, of man, and crdKos, a shield: unmeaning.) 



1. A. Occident Tclis, Pnrsh. Smoothish; 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. 

 Banks of the Mississippi, Illinois, and northwestward. 



