72 PRIMULACRE. (PEIMKOSE FAMILY.) 



1. ARMERIA, Willd. THRIFT. 



Calyx scarious, funnel-form. Styles 5, filiform. Stemless perennials, with linear 

 grass-like leaves in close tufts, the naked scape bearing a head of rose-colored flowers. 



1. A. vulgaris, Willd. Scapes a foot or two high. On sandy hills along the 

 coast. 



2. STATICE, L. MARSH-ROSEMARY. 



Flowers in small spikes or clusters, crowded at the extremities of a branching scape; 

 their structure nearly as in Armeria. Leaves commonly with a broad blade, tapering 

 into a petiole. 



1. S. Limonium, L. Leaves obovate-oblong ; spikelets 2-3-flowered. Salt 

 marshes. 



ORDER 35. PRIMULACE-ffil. 



Herbs, with perfect, regular flowers, well marked, by having the stamens as long as 

 the lobes of the corolla, and opposite to them, inserted on its tube, a single entire style 

 and stigma, a one-celled ovary, and capsular fruit. Calyx 4-8-cleft, commonly 5-cleft, 

 hypogynous. Leaves simple; stipules none. In Olaux the corolla is wanting; stamens 

 on the calyx alternate with its lobes. 



* Flowers umbellate on a naked scape. 



Corolla deeply 4-5-parted, the lobes reflexed Dodecatheon. 1 



* * Flowers axillary, on leafy stems. 



Corolla 5-9-parted, rotate Trientalis. 2 



Corolla 5-parted; prostrate stems Anagallis. 3 



Corolla wanting; calyx colored Glaux, 4 



1. DODECATHEON. L. 



Calyx deeply 5-cleft, the divisions reflexed in the flower, afterwards erect over the 

 ovate or oblong capsule. Corolla with a very short tube, a dilated, thickened throat and 

 an abruptly reflexed 4-5-parted limb; its divisions long and narrow, entire. Stamens 

 inserted in the throat of the corolla, erect, cohering around the slender exserted style. 

 Acaulescent perennial smooth herbs, with a tuft of radical leaves. Corolla purple, pink, 

 or rarely white. Frequently the parts are in fours. 



1. D. Meadia, L. Leaves varying from obovate to lanceolate, entire or toothed; 

 scape 3 to 15 inches high; umbel, 2-20-flowered. A variable species. Ours is chiefly 

 the 



Var. brevifolium, with leaves round-obovate or spatulate, less than an inch to an 

 inch and a half long. 



