272 pniMULACE.fi. (PRIMROSE .FAMILY.) 



3. DODECAXHEOJV, L. AMERICAN COV.-SLIP, 



Calyx deeply 5-clcft ; the divisions lanceolate, reflcxcd. Corolla with u very 

 short tube, a thickened throat, and a 5-partcd 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 eluster of oblong or spatulate leaves, and a simple naked scape, invola- 

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

 3n slender peduncles. Corolla purple-rose-color, or sometimes white. (Name 

 fancifully assumed from ScoSeKa, twelve, and 6foL, yods.) 



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

 southwcstward. May, June. Very handsome in cultivation. In the West 

 called SHOOTING-STAR. 



4. TRIENTAL.IS, L. CIIICKWEED-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. Americana, 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. LYSIlflACIIIA, 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 Lysimachiis, or from Xutriy, a release 

 from, P"Mi strife.) 



t 1. TRIPYNIA, Raf. Leaves opposite or whorled, sessile, dotted: calyx and 

 </(>/<lcn-i/f//ow corolla streaked with dark lines : Jilaments mostly unequal, plainly 

 monadf-lf >ltntis at the base, with no interposed sterile ones : anthers short : pod 5- 

 vitlrtd, rijxniiKj only 2-5 seeds. 



1. L. StrtCta, 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. Junc-^rg. Stems l-2 high, often bearing oblong or monili- 

 fc-m bulblets in the axils. 



